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Thursday, March 24th, 2011

NZGO Builds National Geospatial Skills Database

On 3 March 2011, the New Zealand Geospatial Office offered to build a database of geospatial professionals who may be available to provide relief for the people based in Wellington and Christchurch who are ...

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Hemisphere GPS Reports 2010 Q4 Year-End Results

Hemisphere GPS, a designer and manufacturer of advanced GPS products, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. All amounts in this news release are expressed in US dollars. For the fourth quarter...

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

NovAtel Inc. and Raven Industries Announce New Supplier Agreement

NovAtel Inc. and Raven Industries announce a new strategic partnership that will see NovAtel's industry leading Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technology integrated into Raven's comprehensive line of precision agriculture products. The convergence of these two...

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Learning to Manage Disasters in Malaysia

An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale followed by 10-meter high tsunami in Japan, last week managed to remove the perception of the international community since the beginning of this year's protest focused on the disaster...

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Leica Geosystems Geomatics Division Becomes Esri Gold Tier Partner

Leica Geosystems announced today that it has become an Esri Gold Tier Partner within the Esri Partner Network. Leica Geosystems has developed a surveying extension for ArcGIS – called Leica MobileMatriX – with an interface to a...

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Topcon Beijing (HK) Joins Pointools Sales Partner Program in Asia

Topcon Beijing (HK)  Ltd., a leading provider of 3D laser scanning technology, has joined the  Pointools Partner Program in Asia. Pointools software is used by project teams  to reference and reuse the largest point cloud models –...

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Simulation of the Tsunami That Struck Japan

This type of simulation is quite rare. Only researchers from NOAA (U.S. Agency study of the ocean and atmosphere) have carried out such simulations in the days that followed the tsunami.In Europe, UCL is one of the...

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Indian Earthquake Simulation System

A shrill alarm goes off, a giant screen comes to life and an earthquake strikes—measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu. At the Tsunami Early Warning Centre of the Indian National Centre...

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Launch – Bhutan Regional Geographic Information System Center

National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Caraga will launch its Regional Geographic Information System Center (RGISC) on March 22. The RGISC promotes Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for effective planning, decision-making, policy formulation, investment programming and...

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

Fiji – National Measuring, Reporting, and Verification System

Stakeholders and landowners present at the launch of the Fiji National REDD-plus policy were in a collective agreement that significant progress had been made towards the establishment of a national MRV (measuring, reporting, and verification) system. The two...