New MDA Chief

By Spatial Source on 31 May, 2010

MDA Information Systems has a new CEO for their Geospatial Division. Herb Satterlee, the new chief executive, previously served as president and CEO of Novariant where he oversaw a tripling of revenues in less than three years. He also served as chairman and CEO of DigitalGlobe where his tenure included the launch of QuickBird 2. […]

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Business Intelligence from Location Intelligence Solutions from OMNILINK

By Spatial Source on 28 May, 2010

Location is a unifying theme in business. Location can be an address, a service boundary, a sales territory, or a delivery route. All these things can be visualised and interactively managed and analyzed. Spatial relationships, patterns and trends reveal invaluable business intelligence and bring easy-to-understand visualisation to business applications. Location Intelligence Solutions can be used […]

Virtual Maps a Criminal Offence

By Spatial Source on 28 May, 2010

Internet-generated maps are being linked to crime in the US state of Louisiana. Lawmakers have just approved a bill, by a vote of 89-0, which adds up to 10 years to a sentence for anyone who uses a “virtual street-level map” during a crime. The bill defines the map as something that is available […]

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Navteq Enters Location-Based Advertising Market

By Spatial Source on 28 May, 2010

Navteq has launched a new location-based mobile advertising service in Australia, which allows advertisers to target products and services to a consumer’s current location. The digital mapmaker has partnered with local company Yapp Mobile to offer its new service, LocationPoint Advertising, via Mocal, one of the most popular downloaded navigation products on Apple’s iTunes store. […]

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Crowdsourcing on the Moon

By Spatial Source on 27 May, 2010

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been sending detailed images of the moon from its 50km orbit to scientists since June 2009. The images provide remarkably detailed views of the lunar surface, including features as small as 50cm. Over the course of its mission, LRO is expected to generate 70-100 terabytes of data – […]

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GPS Data Confirms Greenland Rising

By Spatial Source on 27 May, 2010

Greenland's ice is melting so quickly that the giant island is rising by nearly an inch per year in some coastal areas, according to US researchers. The rise seems to be increasing as the huge ice cap pushing down much of Greenland disintegrates. The scientists from the University of Miami used specialised GPS receivers stationed […]

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Trimble User Conference

By Spatial Source on 27 May, 2010

Trimble is calling for speakers for its 2010 user conference, Trimble Dimensions, which will be held 8-10 November in Las Vegas. Themed Converge, Connect, Collaborate, the event will explore how the convergence of technology can redefine the way surveying, engineering, construction, mapping, GIS, geospatial, infrastructure, utilities, and mobile resource management professionals work together. Organisers are […]

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Beidou Global by 2020

By Spatial Source on 27 May, 2010

The Chinese navigation satellite system Beidou, also known as the Compass Navigation Satellite System, is expected to provide global service by 2020, according to the system's chief designer Sun Jiadong. Compass will provide a free service for civilian users with positioning accuracy of within 10 metres, velocity accuracy of within 0.2 m/s and timing accuracy […]

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Victoria to Open Visualisation Centre

By Spatial Source on 25 May, 2010

An Australian team is working to establish an advanced image processing facility that will allow scientists to work with high-resolution images and 3D models previously too large to visualise. Monash University is partnering with technology providers and other research institutions on the project. The Multi-modal Australian Sciences Imaging and Visualisation Environment will be known […]

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Climate Change and Farming in Vietnam

By Spatial Source on 25 May, 2010

The federal government has committed $4.1 million to examine the impact of climate change on rice farming in Vietnam. The project, led by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, will involve a geospatial biophysical impact and vulnerability assessment. It also includes plant breeding for improved resilience to salinity and submergence, development of integrated […]

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