The Hexagon Group recently entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of MicroSurvey Software Inc., the Canadian-based developer of surveying and mapping software for the land surveying, construction, and forensic markets. "MicroSurvey has grown very rapidly in the last 2 years and the acquisition by Hexagon gives us the means to […]
Second annual Mission Idea contest – design a satellite
By Spatial Source on 24 January, 2012Following on from the success of the Inaugural “Mission Idea Contest”, The University Space Engineering Consortium in collaboration with The University of Tokyo are pleased to announce the Second Annual Mission Idea Contest. The Mission Idea Contest was established last year to provide aerospace engineers, college students, consultants, and anybody interested in space […]
US Government to reduce cost of Landsat
By Spatial Source on 24 January, 2012U.S. government agencies are collaborating to figure out ways to reduce the cost of future Landsat missions, as a result of congressional direction included in the 2012 budget. “Although Congress has provided $2 million to the U.S. Geological Service for Landsat 9 program development, they have also requested that the Administration re-examine how […]
Esri Technology Directions 2012 begins soon
By Spatial Source on 24 January, 2012Western Power, VicRoads, the Department of Fisheries and Hobart City Council are just some of the organisations that will be sharing their GIS experiences at Directions 2012: Esri Australia’s Tour de Force. The seminars kick off in Darwin on the 29 of February before touring to Townsville, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne […]
Telematics service for Sokkia total stations
By Spatial Source on 24 January, 2012Sokkia has announced a new Telematics service as a feature of the CX and FX series of total stations. The telematics-based communications module, known as TSshield, provides remote security and maintenance options, including on-instrument notices of firmware updates. Additionally, if the instrument is lost or stolen, a future firmware release will allow the […]
Best of the Blogs
By Spatial Source on 24 January, 2012irevolution has a good post examining the recent Google Map Maker and World Bank collaboration that is stated as “empowering citizen cartographers”. The devil, of course, is in the details. Read on for a great examination of exploitative crowdsourcing. After the recent Lightsquared debacle beginning to draw to a close (Spoiler: GPS won), […]
Hexagon 2012
By Spatial Source on 18 January, 2012By bringing together the latest design, measurement and visualization technologies and user communities from Leica Geosystems, Intergraph, Z/I Imaging, ERDAS, Hexagon Metrology and NovAtel, Hexagon 2012 promises to provide an experience of unprecedented sc WHEN: 2012-06-04 to 2012-06-07WHERE: MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NevadaSTATE: InternationalCOUNTRY: INT Leica Geosystems announces that customers and […]
2012 Brisbane International Geospatial Forum
By Spatial Source on 17 January, 2012The organisations that represent the enthusiasts, practitioners and the business of all things Geospatial are coming together to stage the 2012 Brisbane International Geospatial Forum. WHEN: 2012-07-08 to 2012-07-11WHERE: State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaSTATE: QLDCOUNTRY: AUS The organisations that represent the enthusiasts, practitioners and the business of all things Geospatial are coming together to […]
OrbView-3 satellite data available for free
By Spatial Source on 17 January, 2012OrbView-3 satellite images collected around the world between 2003 and 2007 by Orbital Imaging Corporation (now GeoEye) at up to one-metre resolution can now be downloaded at no cost through USGS EarthExplorer. "This is a significant addition to the USGS archive and a valuable resource for the global science community," said Matthew Larsen, […]
Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for GPS III Launch and Checkout Capability
By Spatial Source on 17 January, 2012Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract worth US$21.5 million to develop a Launch and Checkout Capability (LCC) to control and command the GPS III satellites in order to guide the satellites from launch to on-orbit testing. The LCC, integrated into an advanced Operational Control System (OCX) developed by Raytheon, will ensure that […]
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