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Thursday, May 19th, 2011

LINZ – Mourning Our Loss: Geoff Howard

It is with sad heart that I must pass along the news of the recent passing of our colleague, Geoff Howard, Chief Topographer at LINZ. As many of you know Geoff was an institution within the New Zealand...

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Eagle Point Software – New 2012 Updates to Its AutoCAD Civil 3D Companion Solutions

Eagle Point Software Corporation announced the 2012 release of its AutoCAD Civil 3D software companion solutions: Data Reduction, Designers' Companion, Surveyors' Companion and Pinnacle Series Task Navigator. These 2012 releases are designed to help civil engineering professionals...

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

DAICHI Operations Completed

JAXA had been trying to communicate with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite “DAICHI” (ALOS) for about three weeks after its power generation anomaly on April 22, but we decided to complete its operations by sending a command...

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Changes in Fugro’s Top Management

The Supervisory Board of Fugro N.V. announces that effective 2012 Fugro will be managed in accordance with a board-of-management model. The increased size of the company makes a more collective decision-making process and more delegation of operational tasks...

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

German Aerospace Centre To Expand Operations Into Asia

The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) will collaborate to undertake joint research in satellite and guided navigation, remote sensing and signal processing, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Impressed by NTU's strengths in aeronautical...

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Naro Rocket Program ― Major Headache

Nearly a year has passed since Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) exploded moments after take-off and the country’s attempts to join the space-launch industry continues to spin further out of orbit. Korean officials and their Russian technology providers...

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Intergraph Discovery Tour in Osaka, Japan – CADWorx Plant

Intergraph will host a Discovery Tour event on May 25, 2011 in Osaka, Japan that will feature demonstrations of the Intergraph CADWorx Plant Suite for intelligent plant design modeling, process schematics, and automatic production of plant design...

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Vietnam to Have Online Mapping Service

The bureau chief, Nguyen Tuan Hung said that his agency completed the first stage of the project. A website of Vietnamese maps is under construction. The website will provide online maps of Vietnam at difference ratios. The site...

Monday, May 16th, 2011

ISRO – 75% of Himalayan Glaciers Retreating

A comprehensive study of Isro satellite images reveals 75% of Himalayan glaciers are on the retreat, with the average shrinkage being 3.75km during the 15 years under study. The grim findings come after raging controversy over claims...

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

Second Announcement on HealthGIS 2011

The First and second International Conferences on HealthGIS were held in 2005 and 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. The 3rd International Conf. on healthGIS was in Hyderabad, India in 2009. All the three conferences were resounding success attracting 350+...