Trimble has announced the release of its next generation of Trimble TerraSync software, including the new TerraSync Centimetre Edition, and a new version of GPS Pathfinder Office. Key updates in the TerraSync software include: QuickPoint data collection mode for easy, productive one-click data capture. Working in Trimble QuickPointT data collection mode, repetitive […]
Topcon rolls out HiPer II for GNSS positioning
By Spatial Source on 30 August, 2011Topcon recently rolled out its new HiPer II, an integrated, dual-constellation (GPS + GLONASS) Real Time Kinematic (RTK) and static receiver. “The new HiPer has fully customisable functionality and provides industry-leading flexibility to fit any survey requirement, from the most simple of chores to the most complex assignments,” says Mark Contino, vice president of […]
GPS helping with early-onset dementia
By Spatial Source on 30 August, 2011A new GPS-powered device, known as Safe2Walk, will help family members keep track of their dementia-suffering relatives. The new device, designed by Alzheimer’s Australia WA, is about the size of a mobile phone and can be worn on a lanyard around the neck or clipped to a belt. If the wearer finds […]
Coral reef risk map
By Spatial Source on 30 August, 2011Published this month in online journal PLoS One, a unique map and associated study will help marine park and ecosystem managers to identify coral reefs with the best chance of surviving climate change disturbances. Marine researchers from Macquarie University, the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups have compiled a worldwide map including high […]
Best of the Blogs 30/8/2011
By Spatial Source on 30 August, 2011Welcome to this week’s Best of Blogs! GIS Lounge have a post outlining a project put together by National Geographic that hopes to uncover the lost tomb of Genghis Khan through crowd-sourcing. Basically, they want you to start searching the images for any features of interest. It’s a great example of the power […]
Google Street View hits the Amazon
By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2011Google has extended the coverage of its Street View program – which allows Google Maps viewers the ability too look at a street as if they were standing on it – to the Amazon River. The project started when Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) approached Google Earth hoping to turn Street View into a view […]
Frankston City Council receives excellence award for web map
By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2011Frankston City Council’s GIS-based My Address initiative has taken out a Telstra Local Government Excellence in ICT Award. My Address is a free online mapping service that helps residents discover services and facilities close to their home, such as their nearest schools, community halls, senior citizen amenities, aged care facilities, animal free roam […]
SSSI event: GIS Program Workshop, Melbourne
By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2011Today, most government organisations and a growing number of private industries have some type of GIS program in place. They vary from being in their early stages, to the rebuilding or tuning-up phase, to being completed and changed as new technologies and applications emerge. This workshop is designed to provide guidelines for managing […]
Topcon releases new Field Tools for Arcpad
By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2011Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has released the newest version of Field Tools for ArcPad to support the latest generation of ArcPad (v10.0) and Topcon’s hand-held mobile mapping system GRS-1. The new version of Field Tools for ArcPad allows customers with Esri ArcPad to take full advantage of the GRS-1 functionality provided by […]
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