GEO World articles from October 2003

GEO World archives from October 2003

ArcIMS[R]--extending GIS to the Internet.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Geographic Information Web Server ArcIMS[R] by ESRI provides a powerful and scalable framework for distributing GIS services and data over the Web. Thousands of organizations around the world are using this...

It all adds up to the leader in geospatial imaging: Leica Geosystems--bringing together the best of two worlds.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When you embark on a bright new future, it's best to look to the experts around you. The GIS & Mapping division of Leica Geosystems was created by combining the authority in the sensor and photogrammetry arena--LH...

Can you be both one of the country's fastest growing cities and one of the most liveable? With Intergraph's help, Brisbane City Council thinks so.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brisbane City Council management is striving to make its city the most liveable in Australia. Improving the lives of more than one million citizens requires an efficient, smooth-running government and the land...

R2V for Windows 9X/NT/2K/XP.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Advanced raster to vector conversion software for automated map digitizing. Being used in more than 60 countries. Download the free demo version today and have your scanned maps vectorized in seconds. ...

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West Nile Virus Hits Home.(Position)
October 1, 2003... The June 2003 GeoWorld cover story, "GIS Takes a Bite Out of the West Nile Virus" (page 30), profiled New York City's response to the mosquito-borne disease. New York City was the site of the initial human infection, and the use of GIS, mobile...

SpatialAge solution. Finding intelligence in the geospatial universe.(Discover The Company That Delivers Geospatial Decision Support.)
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Making The Quantum Leap With SpatialAge[R] From Proven Software Products To Custom Applications To Data Services. Our cutting-edge technology offers a solution for every need and budget. Choose from a full...

GIS revenue sees steady growth in 2003.(NewsLink)
October 1, 2003... GIS software and services revenue will reach $1.75 billion in 2003, a growth of 8 percent over the prior year, according to a market study released by Cambridge, Mass.-based Daratech Inc., a market research and technology assessment firm. This...

Satellite chronicles Northeast blackout.(NewsLink)
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) posted satellite images taken before and after the Aug. 14, 2003, blackout of the Northeastern United States that clearly show the night-light effects. The...

GE Power Systems acquires M.J. Harden Associates.(NewsLink)
October 1, 2003... Atlanta-based GE Power Systems acquired Kansas City, Mo.-based M.J. Harden Associates Inc. (MJH), which specializes in GIS solutions for a range of industries including pipelines and utilities. M.J. Harden will become part of the pipeline...

Girls climb 19,000 feet to study global warming.(NewsLink)
October 1, 2003... On one of Ecuador's tallest volcanic mountain peaks, a group of high-school girls spent three weeks in summer 2003 learning more about the effect of climate on glacial melting in the tropics--a phenomenon some scientific experts link to global...

Advanced Technology Solutions Inc. (ATS), Lancaster, PA.(Online Update)
October 1, 2003... http://www.atsincorp.com ATS partnered with Keystone Research Center (KRC) to provide a Web-accessible CIS map designed to overlay information on community characteristics. The site will be used by KRC in two major projects that study...

Avenza Systems Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.(Online Update)
October 1, 2003... http://www.avenza.com Avenza Systems' MAPublisher now can be demonstrated live via the Internet using technology from Glance Networks (http://www.glance.net). Similar to Webex, Glance doesn't require any additional client-side software....

DMTI Spatial, Markham, Ontario, Canada.(Online Update)
October 1, 2003... http://www.dmtispatial.com DMTI Spatial teamed with Orion Technology to give customers interactive access to DMTI's Canadian spatial data products via the Internet. The Web-based portal will be feature DMTI Spatial's latest version of...

ESRI, Redlands, Calif.(Online Update)
October 1, 2003... http://www.esri.com ESRI's RouteMAP IMS is being used to provide online driving directions for the Conyers, Ga., Web site (http://www.conyersonline.com), which was developed by Comm.Quest Inc. as an online resource for information about...

Geotrac, Norwalk, Ohio.(Online Update)
October 1, 2003... http://www.geotrac.com OnePointCity, a Web-based settlement system from Geotrac, includes online PASS property valuations from Basis 100. PASS provides current market-value estimations in real time for more than 100 million residential...

Visual Learning Systems Inc. (VLS), Missoula, Mont.(Online Update)
October 1, 2003... http://www.vls-inc.com VLS introduced its Feature Analyst Online Training Course, which covers basic feature extraction approaches as well as advanced topics including multi-class extractions, 3-D feature extraction using elevation data,...

Internet resource of the month.(NetLink)
October 1, 2003... GEOSPATIAL ONE-STOP http://www.geodata.gov The Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) portal provides data that are shareable by anyone, anywhere. Overseen by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), it's the result of an e-government initiative...

MrSID technology: the name you trust is accelerating the future.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Image analyst and decision makers of some of the world's largest companies and government agencies depend on GeoExpress with MrSID[R] to accomplish their most challenging tasks. LIZARDTECH[TM] Software ...

GeoDecisions, Harrisburg, Pa.(People Link)
October 1, 2003... http://www.geodecisions.com Chris Markel, lead analyst for the transportation group at GeoDecisions, was elected president of the Pennsylvania Mapping and Geographic Information Consortium. Elected to the board in 2002, Markel now will...

Geographic Technologies Group (GTG), Goldsboro, N.C.(People Link)
October 1, 2003... http://www.geotg.com GTG appointed Karen A. Mulcahy to corporate projects manager.

ImageLinks, Melbourne, Fla.(People Link)
October 1, 2003... http://www.imagelinks.com ImageLinks named Christopher P. Haakon to its board of directors, where he will help ImageLinks enhance its federal government-based software development and image products business.

JumpStart GIS Inc., Richmond, Va.(People Link)
October 1, 2003... http://www.jumpstartgis.com Kinley Winchester was named data services manager for JumpStart GIS, providing technical oversight and assistance with all aspects of the company's data conversion process, including data translation and...

URISA announces election results.
October 1, 2003... Park Ridge, Ill.-based Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) announced that Dianne Haley will become president-elect of the association beginning in October 2003, at the close of URISA's 41st Annual Conference in Atlanta...

Blue Marble CEO discusses 10th anniversary.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gardiner, Maine-based Blue Marble Geographics celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2003. The company began in July 1993 through the development and sales of its Geographic Calculator coordinate-conversion software and...

Solutions in geospatial imaging: two new software solutions from Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the expert in enabling image-based maps, Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping empowers geospatial professionals to create and put precise imaging to work. We are proud to introduce two new...

Agencies partner on new weather system.(Government Connection)
October 1, 2003... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a handful of other federal agencies are developing a new weather forecast system designed to help the research community as well as the...

Congress sets funds for flood-map modernization.(Government Connection)
October 1, 2003... The Department of Homeland Security 2004 appropriations act, passed in summer 2003 by the U.S. House and Senate, calls for $200 million to be spent on modernizing federal flood-map activities--about $51 million more than current-year funding...

NIMA using new GPS receivers.(Government Connection)
October 1, 2003... The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) migrated to new Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver technology. The new receivers--part of NIMA's Monitor Station Network (MSN), a world-wide network of unmanned stations that track GPS...

Atlanta welcomes URISA Annual Conference.(Government Connection)
October 1, 2003... The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) Annual Conference, being held Oct. 11-15, 2003, in Atlanta, offers a unique multidisciplinary approach, with sessions led by industry leaders, keynote presentations, panels,...

NASA lends hand to fight fires.
October 1, 2003... The agency charged with exploring space has turned some of its attention to wildfires. NASA has offered a set of information tools to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) that will expand the service's arsenal of firefighting weapons. ...

CARIS 2003 keynote speaker announced.
October 1, 2003... The CARIS 2003 Conference, being held in St. Louis on Nov. 18-21, 2003, will feature keynote speaker Denis Hains, who was appointed as acting dominion hydrographer and director general of the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) in the...

Work smart: built together to work together.
October 1, 2003... cash in--trade up--fall edition... for hp designjet series 1000 and 5000 large-format printers Now you can tap into HP's fastest large-format printing technology and get cash back too! It's the Cash In--Trade Up--Speed Up promotion in...

Think with maps to evaluate alternative routes.(Beyond Mapping)
October 1, 2003... The last several "Beyond Mapping" columns focused on the considerations involved in siting an electric transmission line as representative of most routing models. The initial discussion described a basic three-step process (i.e., Step 1....

Could Logo help children learn GIS?(Edge Nodes)
October 1, 2003... Recently my GIS class and I were discussing concepts of space. It was heavy-duty, philosophical stuff that techie GIS students normally avoid like the plague. There are two ways of looking at space. The first is an objective view most...

Advertise now...
October 1, 2003... Reach qualified sales leads without spending a fortune by advertising in the classified section of our magazine. Classified advertising presents an incredible opportunity to you--an additional cost-effective and easy way to sell your...

Users must demand open GIS standards.(Open GIS Connection)
October 1, 2003... The Web has convincingly demonstrated the benefits of widely implemented, vendor-neutral, consensus-derived open standards. Recognizing this, GeoWorld readers owe it to themselves and those they serve to adopt open standards in their purchases...

Targeting terrorists: can GIS lead the attack?(Homeland Security)
October 1, 2003... EXPERTS IN INSURGENCIES AND OTHER ILLICIT GROUPS HAVE LONG ACKNOWLEDGED THE CRITERIA ASSOCIATED WITH OPERATIONAL CAMPS. FOR EXAMPLE, IAN BECKETT WRITES IN A RECENT PAPER, THE FUTURE OF INSURGENCY, "FEATURES OF INSURGENCY THAT HAVE REMAINED...

Twin disasters put technology to the test.(Emergency Management)
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF COLORADO'S La Plata County (http://co.laplata.co.us/) has been using GIS and electronic database software since the 1990s. Since it was installed, the software has been used mostly for...

U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Industry Conference.
October 1, 2003... Earlybird Discount: Register by October 6th & SAVE $200 DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2003 * WESTIN GRAND HOTEL * WASHINGTON D.C. Are you informed as to where the U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Industry is heading? WILL YOU BE IN IT? A business...

Washington monuments: creating a Web-based warehouse for survey control data.(Data Delivery)
October 1, 2003... A SURVEYOR'S WORK IS FUNDAMENTAL TO almost any geographic or land-use effort. Surveying is the first step in projects as diverse as road construction, map making, wetland preservation, bridge building, drawing private property lines or marking...

Facing rapid growth? A Web-based GIS can help.(Property Management)
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN ALABAMA'S FASTEST-GROWING COUNTY needed to enhance services to keep pace with expanding population and development, the county turned to Web-based GIS technology for help. Now, the...

TerraShare manages your geoimaging data automatically.
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TerraShare[R], from Z/I Imaging, provides the system to manage your geoimaging data--such as imagery, DTMs, and digitized raster graphics--from acquisition to exploitation to distribution. TerraShare connects your...

Imagery meets a growing demand for airport mapping.(Applied Imagery)
October 1, 2003... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AN IMAGE MAY BE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, but in the case of a fledgling GIS program, an image can provide the foundation on which the system is built. From an orthorectified, high-resolution satellite image, thousands...

Data: AVE Software Technologies Inc., Minsk, Belarus.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.avest.org AVE Software Technologies released AVE Data Portfolio Vehicle Navigation Data, a collection of digital vector maps covering 22 Eastern European countries (e.g., Poland, Czech Rep., Slovak Rep., Hungary, all former...

Data: East View Cartographic, Minneapolis.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.cartographic.com East View Cartographic introduced nationally produced Pakistan topographic maps at 1:500,000 and 1:1 million scales. Production of the maps was done by the Survey of Pakistan from the mid-1960s through the...

Data: EuroGeographics, Paris.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.eurogeographics.org EuroGeographics, the association of European national mapping agencies, introduced the EuroGlobalMap dataset, which covers Europe at a scale of 1:1 million. [GRAPHIC OMITTED]

Data: GEOCOMtms, Quebec.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.geocomtms.com GEOCOMtms' A.MAZE software now covers all the civic addresses in the province of Ontario.

Data: Maporama, Paris.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.maporama.com Maporama introduced more than 200,000 addresses and telephone details of professionals in France's medical sector. The new information was integrated into Maporama's location-centric databases and can be used via...

Data: Navigation Technologies, Chicago.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.navtech.com Navigation Technologies mapped Norway's entire road network.

Data: Sanborn.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.sanborn.com Sanborn released CitySets, a series of off-the-shelf digital datasets covering the core downtown areas of 27 major cities. [GRAPHIC OMITTED]

Data: Space Imaging, Denver.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.spaceimaging.com Space Imaging released an archived IKONOS satellite image of the Al-Falah neighborhood in northeast Mosul. The image, taken on Nov. 15, 2000, includes the villa where Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, were...

Software: ACD Systems International Inc., Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.acdsystems.com ACD Systems International launched Canvas 9, a cross-platform, technical drawing program that integrates professional-level image editing, advanced vector illustration, page layout, Web graphics and presentation...

Software: Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.autodesk.com Autodesk implemented the Open GIS Web Map Service (WMS) Specification, an industry-consensus specification that enables organizations to efficiently, effectively and immediately share and visualize data. The WMS...

Software: Byers Engineering, Atlanta.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.byers.com Byers Engineering SpatialAge Solutions Division released SpatialAge Geographical Trouble Analysis System (GTAS), which provides a visual environment for analyzing outside-plant trouble histories. Built on Oracle Java...

Software: IDEAL.Com, Rockville, MD.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.ideal.com IDEAL.Com launched PlanTracer for Architectural Desktop and AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT 2004. Plan Tracer 1.2, developed by Consistent Software, has a new recognition method that uses "sketch mode," which uses a unique...

Software: GemTeck Environmental Software Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.gemteck.com GemTeck Environmental Software released EQWin Data Manager 6.0, which manages all the processes and data involved in monitoring the effects of industry on the environment. It handles all surface water, ground water,...

Software: Geo-3D Inc., Montreal.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.geo-3d.com Geo-3D released Cyclop-3D Mosaic software, which was designed to generate non-orthorectified, geo-referenced mosaics from Cyclop-3D vertical imagery. Resulting mosaics and related information can be transferred...

Software: Geosoft Inc., Toronto.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.geosoft.com Geosoft launched Target for ArcGIS, a surface and drill-hole mapping extension to ESRI's ArcGIS software. Target for ArcGIS simplifies the compilation, mapping and analysis of geospatial data within the GIS...

Software: Haestad Methods, Waterbury, Conn.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.haestad.com Haestad Methods released WaterGEMS version 2.0 for ArcGIS, which allows water utilities to seamlessly link water modeling and GIS data through a centralized data management platform, enabling them to streamline the...

Software: Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions, Huntsville, ALA.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.intergraph.com/gis Intergraph announced that two free interoperability extensions are available for download: the OpenGIS Geographic Markup Language (GML) and the OpenGIS Web Feature Services data servers as well as the GML...

Software: Laser-Scan, Cambridge, United Kingdom.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.laser-scan.com Laser-Scan launched its new automated generalization product, Clarity, which is designed to help customers develop new digital products from existing data.

Software: Leica Geosystems, Heerbrugg, Switzerland.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://gis.leica-geosystems.com Leica Geosystems introduced SKI-Pro Version 3.0 Global Positioning System post-processing software, which incorporates Leica's CheckMate continuous ambiguity resolution technology. Also, Leica Geosystems now...

Software: Lizardtech, Seattle.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.lizardtech.com ESRI's ArcGIS product line added viewing support for MrSID Generation 3. ArcGIS users now can take advantage of MrSID lossless and advanced lossy images in ArcGIS applications for feature classification, military...

Software: Mapping Science Inc. (MSI), Seattle.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.mappingscience.com MSI released version 2.0 of its GeoJP2 image-encoding software. The new version adds a graphical user interface to the JPEG2000-based compression libraries already distributed.

Software: Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), Oxford, United Kingdom.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.nag.co.uk SoftIntegration Inc. and NAG released Ch NAG Statistics Package version 1.0. Designed to meet the needs of researchers seeking rapid statistical application development, the Ch NAG Statistics Package makes a set of NAG...

Software: Pacific Alliance Technologies, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.pat.ca Pacific Alliance Technologies introduced its EIIS custom tools for the input and maintenance of mapping and database information related to municipal infrastructure.

Software: PCI Geomatics, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.pcigeomatics.com PCI Geomatics' Geomatica 9 includes support for Supresoft's IMAGIS 3D GIS visualization software. Also, Geomatica 9 includes new rigorous model support for the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar and the...

Software: Research Systems Inc. (RSI), Boulder, Colo.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.rsinc.com RSI released IDL version 6.0, which offers enhancements in flexibility and ease-of-use. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Software: RESOURCE21, Denver.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.resource21.com RESOURCE21 launched its AgriTrax product line, which uses its satellite imagery and specialized analysis to provide agriculture retailers and customers with precise, accurate and affordable information about how...

Software: Tripod Data Systems (TDS), Corvallis, Ore.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.tdsway.com TDS released version 3.1 of its ForeSight DXM (Data eXchange Manager), which allows surveyors to bridge the data management gap between field data collection and computer-aided design (CAD) software. ForeSight DXM...

Hardware: Garmin International Inc., Olathe, Kan.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.garmin.com Garmin International began shipping its iQue 3600, the first personal digital assistant with integrated Global Positioning System technology.

Hardware: IDEAL.Com, Rockville, MD.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.ideal.com IDEAL.Com introduced its IDEAL/Contex Magnum 54-inch color scanner, which allows users to scan in color images up to 54 inches wide; store them on their own customized, browser-based IDEAL PlanRoom; and sell...

Hardware: Tripod Data Systems (TDS), Corvallis, Ore.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.tdsway.com TDS announced across-the-board price reductions on its entire line of TDS Ranger rugged handhelds. The price reductions accompany TDS' re-launching of the Ranger line, which now features color screens on all models,...

Miscellaneous: ESRI, Redlands, Calif.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.esri.com ESRI added the first premium service to MapShop from GlobeXplorer, which partners with providers of aerial imagery to provide online access. The new GlobeXplorer Premium Imagery Service includes high-resolution aerial...

Miscellaneous: Leica Geosystems, Heerbrugg, Switzerland.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://gis.leica-geosystems.com Leica Geosystems announced a new firmware release, Version 1.05, for the GS20 professional data mapper, featuring support for Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and Hypertrak Global Positioning System (GPS)...

Miscellaneous: Microolap Technologies LLC, Trenton, N.J.(Product News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.microolap.com MicroOLAP Technologies released EasyMap Components, a library of components for creating GIS-related solutions.

Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif.(Business News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.autodesk.com Florida's State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) selected Autodesk MapGuide software to help disaster workers and the public respond to hurricanes and other disasters, either natural or manmade. SEOC will use...

Blue Marble Geographics, Gardiner, Maine.(Business News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.bluemarblegeo.com Blue Marble Geographics celebrated 10 years in business. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Clark Labs, Worcester, Mass.(Business News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.clarklabs.org Clark Labs won a contract from the Andes Monitoring and Modeling Unit of Conservation International to develop new, spatially explicit tools within IDRISI Kilimanjaro software to aid in the analyses and simulation...

Contex Scanning Technology, Alleroed, Denmark.(Business News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.contex.com Contex Scanning Technology launched an Authorized Dealer Program for the United States.

Definiens Imaging, Munich.(Business News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.definiens-imaging.com Geosystems Polska became a reseller throughout Poland of Definiens Imaging's eCognition object-oriented image classification software. In addition, JEODIJITAL Informatics Technology Ltd. became a reseller...

Digital Data Technologies Inc. (DDTI), Columbus, Ohio.(Business News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.ddti.net DDTI provided Logan County with an intelligent road-centerline base map and software. The map, which DDTI created with its voice and data recording system, is comprised of 3-D road centerlines and field-verified address...

DMTI Spatial, Markham, Ontario, Canada.(Business News)
October 1, 2003... http://www.dmtispatial.com KingsBridge Systems incorporated DMTI Spatial's 30-meter digital elevation model and 30-meter clutter data into its network planning tools. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]