GEO: connexion articles from May 2002

GEO: connexion archives from May 2002

By Royal command? (Up Front).(Editorial)
May 1, 2002... Britains Royal Family is seldom far from the headlines and the past few weeks have been no exception, with the much lamented loss of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and her youngest daughter, Princess Margaret. Yet even at this difficult time,...

First envista ASAR data from Eurimage: Canaries, Cuba, Casamance. (News).(European Space Agency)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The first images from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite, launched on 1st March, have been made available through Eurimage. Testing and calibration of the satellite and its sensors has continued and distribution of images will start...

Tele Atlas selected for resting Galileo. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tele Atlas has been selected by the European Commission to provide digital mapping data to the Polaris project, the crucial service analysis for testing the European satellite system Galileo. Polaris will provide the essential link between...

Australian scanner for the world of large documents. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The DeSKan Express 5 from Sinclair Knight Merz is a large format document scanner handling formats larger than AO using a motorised scanner, precision calibrated guide and specialised software. It is aimed at organisations with medium volume...

Webraska hosts first European i-mode[TM] service. (News).
May 1, 2002... webraska Webraska, provider of LBS and Telematics applications and enabling platforms, has been selected by E-Plus to develop and host the first European Location-Based Services for i-mode[TM]. E-Plus, a wholly owned subsidiary of the KPN...

ESRI emerges on the Emerald Isle. (News).(Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ESRI (UK), provider of GIS and location-based solutions has announced the formation of ESRI Ireland. Paradigm Technology, the Irish GIS and CAD specialists and current ESRI sub-distributor for the region, transferred its GIS business to ESRI...

New houses spotted by Hitachi. (News).(Hitachi Software Global Technology Ltd.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Hitachi Software Global Technology (HSGT) has developed a powerful automated approach to identifying changes to buildings and other structures. HouseDiff enables users to carry out change analysis more frequently and keep the building layers of...

Survey of India -- then and now. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Survey of India, itself 235 years old is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the commissioning of the Great Arc - the triangulation of the subcontinent - that commenced in i 802. This epic project is accredited not only with enabling the...

Microsoft maps the web. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Microsoft has launched MapPoint .NET, its first commercially available SOAP/XML Web service. MapPoint .NET is a programmable platform for mapping and location-based services. Developed and hosted by Microsoft, MapPoint .NET enables solution...

Self-centred mapping from OS. (News).(Ordnance Survey)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Ordnance Survey has launched a new online service for customers to create site-centred Landranger maps. OS Select enables users to give their own title to their chosen map as well as choosing a picture or a coverage diagram on the front cover....

The 'I's have it: Intergraph -- IBM marketing agreement. (News).(Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions have reached a marketing agreement with IBM Corporation. This worldwide relationship between their technical, sales, and marketing teams will promote Intergraph's GeoMedia product suite with IBM's DB2...

ISMAP, Marseilles based pioneer in wireless maps. (LBS News in Brief).(M-Pixel Technologies)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ISMAP, Marseilles based pioneer in wireless maps, has acquired M-Pixel Technologies, specialists in image compression for the wireless industry. Customers include Verizon, France Telecom, Vizzavi, AOL, Compaq, Mitsubishi and Casio who are all...

Paris based Maporama have launched their I-mode platform. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Paris based Maporama have launched their I-mode platform, the first market-ready professional location-centric product offered by a non-Japanese provider. Now Maporama customers can integrate I-mode LBS solutions into their Internet services....

Pizza Hut UK. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Pizza Hut UK have chosen Maporama to provide it's restaurant locator facility on the www.pizzahut.co.uk website. Pizza Hut customers visiting the website see a form prompting for a postcode or town name. In a single click, Maporama provides a...

Navigation Technologies has released NAVTECH(R) maps for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Navigation Technologies has released NAVTECH(R) maps for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The new data for the Czech Republic features detailed coverage of Prague, including street names, municipal boundaries, and points of interest plus the...

NETSOLUT from Germany and based in Portsmouth has acquired EasyMap. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... NETSOLUT from Germany and based in Portsmouth has acquired EasyMap in UK and has now launched the businessMap24 Easy web based mapping service to provide detailed locations and directions for small companies needing to guide their customers....

SiRF Technology, Inc.'s GPS technology will be integrated into Motorola's iDEN family. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... SiRF Technology, Inc.'s GPS technology will be integrated into Motorola's iDEN family of mobile phones to meet the US government requirements for the automatic positioning of phones in emergency situations. The SiRFLoc-based high sensitivity...

SiRF Technology, Inc. (St Jose) and Matsushita Electric Works (Osaka). (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... SiRF Technology, Inc. (St Jose) and Matsushita Electric Works (Osaka) have agreed to location enable new wireless, consumer electronic, automotive and mobile computing products with the new SiRFstar IIe/LP chip set and SiRFLoc' technology. They...

European land information service planned. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Within the eContent Programme of the European Union, national land registries with computerised systems have started a co-operation in a project called European Land Information Service (EULIS). The European housing and real estate credit...

Many lights make good business. (News).(for MAYRISE Systems)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... There are now over two million street lights, over 30% of the UK total, in MAYRISE(TM) systems used by local councils and highway authorities. Mayrise Systems, of Gloucestershire, incorporates digital maps and aerial images into MAYRISE(TM) to...

Aerial photography on Bosworth Field. (News).(to determine site of final battle of War of the Roses)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Aerial photography from Getmapping is helping in the analysis of the area around Sutton Cheney in Leicestershire, the supposed site for the Battle of Bosworth Field. This final battle of the Wars of the Roses between Richard III and Henry Tudor...

Euro handy facts. (News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... I am engaged in developing an IT strategy or providing IT support for my organisation. How does the euro impact on these activities and what factors should I consider? The European Commission has published a number of useful guides to help...

Britain's Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency. (Awards).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Britain's Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency, headquartered in Feltham, Middlesex, has awarded a software contract to ESRI (UK) Ltd for ArcView, ARCGIS and ARCOSE software, associated upgrades and maintenance. An additional...

South Cambridgeshire District Council in England has awarded a contract to CAPS Solutions Ltd. (Awards).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... South Cambridgeshire District Council in England has awarded a contract to CAPS Solutions Ltd for an integrated system comprising building control, development control and land charges.

Irish Geotechnical Services Ltd. (Awards).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Kilkenny County Council in the Republic of Ireland has awarded a ground investigation services contract to Irish Geotechnical Services Ltd.

The Department Alencon in France. (Awards).(awards contract)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Department Alencon in France has awarded Entreprise SA Fit Conseil a topographical services contract.

Britain's Post Office. (Awards).(Cap Gemini Danmark A/S)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Britain's Post Office has awarded a contract for a GIS-based mail planning and routing system to Cap Gemini Danmark A/S

Maanmittauslaitos, the Helsinki-based National Land Survey of Finland. (Awards).(O of Espoo)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Maanmittauslaitos, the Helsinki-based National Land Survey of Finland, has awarded a contract for GIS data collection and maintenance to O of Espoo, also in Finland.

Trimble and TTP target mass market. (Business Xtra).(Trimble Navigation Ltd.)(TTP Communications PLC)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A recently-inked agreement between Global Positioning System (GPS) innovator Trimble of Sunnyvale, California, and TTP Communications of Cambridge, England, a leading independent supplier of digital wireless communications, will see the duo...

New distributors for Leica Geosystems. (Business Xtra).(Conestoga Rovers and Associates)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Leica Geosystems' GIS & Mapping Division has appointed Conestoga-Rovers & Associates of Ontario, Canada, as sales and support agents for its entire GPS/GIS product line to local government and the utilities in Mitchigan, USA. In separate news,...

Results. (Business Xtra).(Getmapping PLC)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... UK-based aerial photography specialists Getmapping plc posted a loss after tax of 4,310,731 euros for the year ending 31st December 2001. Group turnover amounted to [euro]6,708,841 (up [euro]4,356,348 on 2000) and gross profit reached...

UK-based MVM Consultants Ltd. (Business Xtra).(Geodesys Ltd.)(MVM Utilities Division)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... UK-based MVM Consultants Ltd has entered the utilities sector by acquiring a large part of Geodesys, including its well-known Strumap/ Strunet technologies. A new business operation known as MVM Utilities Division, with offices in Huntingdon,...

Saudi desert: secrets in the sand? (Middle East).(missile base location )
May 1, 2002... Saudi Arabia has secretly built a huge missile base in the heart of its desert, the Israeli mass circulation daily Yediot Aharonot claimed at the end of March, publishing photos of what it said was the massive installation. The high resolution...

Fugro lands [euro]5.6 million Middle East contract. (Middle East).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Fugro Survey (Middle East) Ltd, Abu Dhabi, has been awarded a [euro]5.6 million contract by Dolphin Energy Ltd for survey work in connection with the [euro]4 billion Dolphin project. The latter will feed gas from the Khuff formation in Qatars...

STAR GIS now in Arabic. (Middle East).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... STAR INFORMATIC of Belgium has strengthened the appeal of its GIS products in the Middle East by making them available with full Arabic language menus and annotations. The development, undertaken in conjunction with STAR INFORMATIC's...

Aviel Ron. (Middle East).(Survey of Israel)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... GEO:connexion is saddened to report the death of Aviel Ron, Director-General of the Survey of Israel, in the suicide bombing of the Matza Restaurant in Haifa on March 31st. His son, Ofer (17) and daughter, Anat (21) were also fatalities of the...

GI helps Marathon in gas quest. (Africa).(Land Info International L.L.C.)(Marathon Oil Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... LAND INFO International LLC of Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA, has compiled topographic mapping for of Bioko Island (formerly Fernando Po), in the Gulf of Guinea for the Marathon Oil Corporation. Houston-based Marathon acquired the...

Nairobi Conference report. (Africa).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The outcome and recommendations arising from last October's Nairobi Conference on Spatial Information for Sustainable Development have been published by Commission 3 of FIG, the International Federation of Surveyors, in co-operation with the...

Nairobi, from A to Z. (Africa).(Cadcorp)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... UK-based Cadcorp has announced the first Kenyan sale of its Map Manager product to Nairobi A-Z, a small organisation tasked with producing an A-Z street map of Kenya's capital city. The project was instigated by the city authority and is...

Florida sunshine welcomes GITA. (Connect).(Geospatial Information and Technology Association)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... More than 2,700 delegates converged on Tampa, Florida, in mid-March to celebrate the 25th annual conference of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA). Held at the Tampa Convention Centre, the event attracted a...

Springtime in Paris with MICAD. (Connect).(CAD/CAM trade fair)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The 21st iteration of MICAD, one of the world's leading CAD/CAM trade fairs, lived up to expectations with more than 25,342 visitors flocking to the Paris venue in late March. The message from the 270 exhibitors displaying their wares is...

Your show - GIS 2002 in association with the AGI Conference. (Connect).
May 1, 2002... Now in its 11th year, GIS 2002 in association with the AGI conference is indisputably the national showcase for geographic information solutions. Providing a single focus for the industry the 2001 event attracted over 3300 visitors from a...

Hungary for sharing. (News in Brief).
May 1, 2002... The Network Solutions 2002 conference and exhibition is being staged this month by American giant, General Electric (GE), at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Budapest. The event provides a knowledge-sharing forum for customers, partners, and...

Lucky 13 for Laser-Scan. (News in Brief).
May 1, 2002... Designed to attract decision-makers, Laser-Scan convenes its 13th annual conference at Wyboston in Bedfordshire, England, 2-3 July 2002. This year's event provides the launch platform for a number of innovations and, as in previous years,...

Doing the business. (News in Brief).
May 1, 2002... "Profitable Decision-Making through Geographical Analysis" is the theme for this year's Geobusiness Conference, being staged at the RICS Westminster Centre in central London on 24th October. This annual event - the fourth to be held - will...

Entrepreneurs unite in Cambridge. (Connect).
May 1, 2002... Entrepreneurs from around the world will descend on Cambridge this summer for Cambridge Technology Exchange 2002, Europe's pre-eminent networking event for technologists, business leaders and academics. CTE2002 will follow the successful...

Intergraph users head for Atlanta. (Connect).
May 1, 2002... Emerging market trends, technology direction and real-world applications provide the cornerstones for the GeoSpatial World 2002 conference, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, June 10-12. This annual gathering of the Intergraph GeoSpatial Users...

Hunagi: Hungarian National Association for Geographic Information. (Eurogi Member Profile).
May 1, 2002... Date of foundation: November 9, 1994 Type of association: Non-profit umbrella association providing a forum for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and institutional linkage in National, European and Global Spatial Data Infrastructure...

GI democracy at work. (AGI View).
May 1, 2002... Towards the end of 2001 UK Parliamentarians turned their attention to copyright and pricing issues relating to Ordnance Survey's data and products in the context of the planning process and electioneering. The Urban Affairs Subcommittee of...

EUROGI Annual General Meeting 2002. (Community).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... EUROGI, the pan-European umbrella body for Geographic Information, held its Annual General Meeting at the European Commission offices in Luxembourg, 18-19 March. A majority of the members attended, as did invited guests from the Commission. ...

Telcontar focus on Europe. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Richard Rollins has been appointed European Sales and Business Development Manager for TELCONTAR. Richard has over ten years of experience with location-based services, telematics and geographic information systems. He will be responsible for...

Promotion at Eastman Kodak. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... EASTMAN KODAK Company's Commercial and Government Systems has appointed Richard Cooke as president of Research Systems Inc. (RSI), a wholly owned subsidiary. Cooke has more than 1 5 years of experience in the software engineering and technology...

New post at Multimap.com. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Multimap.com provider of on-line mapping services to consumers and businesses, has promoted Willem Mijnarends to the newly-created position of sales manager. Willem will focus on developing and extending Multimap.com's existing client base,...

Adkins moves to Orbimage. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Gary Adkins has been appointed Senior Director for Federal and National Security Sales for ORBIMAGE A veteran in the remote sensing industry with a proven track record in federal sales, Mr. Adkins has joined ORBIMAGE's senior marketing staff to...

Landmark plots a course for the future. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Founders of two UK companies -- both now part of DMG Information -- are stepping down following the successful completion of 'earn-out' agreements. Managing director and founder of PRODAT Systems, Anthony Wrigley, is leaving to concentrate on...

CEO change at ImageSat. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ImageSat International has appointed Menashe Broder as CEO of ImageSat International. Broder, who replaces Jacob Weiss, was born in Montreal, Canada and is a lawyer by profession. He worked for more than twenty-five years at Israel Aircraft...

Public sector information: resource or commodity? Christopher Roper explores trans-national issues in the open access versus cost recovery debate. (European Data Policy).
May 1, 2002... PART 4 If cost recovery creates problems at a national level, these are compounded at a regional and global level. Take one recent example, from a group of Finnish meteorologists writing in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological...

Aggregrate graduate: Bill Metcalf looks for role models in data aggregation. (Futures).
May 1, 2002... Readers acquainted with the plot of the 1967 classic film, 'The Graduate', may have felt a twinge of sympathy for the hapless Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) when told that aggregates were the surest way to financial stability -- even to...

Coffee time! A break from conventional location analysis: what happens in retail location planning when catchments don't work and customer 'mission' is more important than consumer type? James Nolan has the answer. (Talk).
May 1, 2002... Predicting sales for high street retail outlets may not be easy, but is one major retailers and specialist agencies have tackled for years using complex algorithms, statistical techniques and an expanse of demographic, lifestyle and market data...

When more is less: Robert Barr tackles the vexed issue of data quality and pricing. (Dangling Segment).
May 1, 2002... As with all information these days, the cost of reproducing geographic information is near to zero and its price to end users must reflect the cost of capture and initial processing rather than reproduction. That price is likely to be based on...

Laris: a new revolution in the marking. (Cadastre).
May 1, 2002... With Russian citizens embracing the concept of land and property ownership, the need for a large-scale cadastre and automated land information system is self-evident. In response, the Russian Federation has embarked on one of the most ambitious...

How does your garden grow? (Image Processing).
May 1, 2002... With its tremendous influence on climate, vegetation is crucial to life on Earth. Yet how much do we really know about the subject? Clark Coffey reports on how new imaging instruments and processing techniques are beginning to yield answers....

Shrinking to fit: we may live in a world of burgeoning information, but processing it calls for ever greater sophistication. Despair not, say Bernard Chester and Jim Dielschneider, who explain how good things come in small packages. (Image Processing).
May 1, 2002... Today's world of Information Technology is full of contrasts. On one hand, operating system software is bloated with inelegant code and relies on expanded processor memory and disk storage to compensate for its cumbersome construction. On the...

Flight Simulator 2002. (Newsround: Image Processing).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Flight Simulator 2002, the latest iteration of Microsoft's ever-popular gaming/educational package, makes use of ERDAS IMAGINE image processing software from Leica Geosystems to deliver extremely realistic ground cover and landscape scenes. ...

Definiens Imaging GmbH of Munich. (Newsround: Image Processing).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Definiens Imaging GmbH of Munich, Germany, has launched a Professional Services Division to train and support users of its eCognition Object-Oriented image processing and analysis software. The new operation is headed by Dr. Ursula C. Benz who...

Idrisi32 Release 2. (Newsround: Image Processing).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Idrisi32 Release 2, currently shipping from Clark Labs of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, has an improved toolset for processing remotely-sensed images. These tools fall into four groups: Image Restoration, Enhancement, Classification and...

Grass grows greener in 5.1. (Newsround: Image Processing).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The global development team contributing to GRASS, the Open source GIS and image processing software, is working on enhancements for version 5.1. These include a new 3D multiattribute, multilayer vector library, a modified NVIZ 3-D...

MasterMap within you grasp: Jamie Justham gets a fistful of Ordnance Survey's latest compilation and decides it's just too good to let go. (Cartogaphy).
May 1, 2002... What defines the definitive national map of Great Britain? The short answer is almost 415 million features, comprising points, lines, regions and text -- now all embodied in MasterMap from national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey...

NGIS: making progress in the promised land; Ammatzia Peled recounts how, ten years on, Israel's National Geographic Information System is delivering on its early promise. (National GI Strategy).
May 1, 2002... After much deliberation, the government of Israel resolved in 1989 and affirmed in 1991 that the Survey of Israel (SOI), the national mapping agency, would: * Establish a National digital Spatial information system; * Define standards...

Going all-digital with the DMC: Z/I Imaging set out to make a quantum leap with its Digital Modular Camera development. Rachel Rogers believes the market will be suitably impressed with the result. (Aerial Cameras).
May 1, 2002... Change is all around us. New digital sensors and applications are entering the market to satisfy the needs of imagery providers and consumers, all of whom seek savings in cost and time, as well as higher geometric and radiometric resolution....

Z/I Imaging. (Newsround: Aerial Cameras).(wins order from Simmons Aerofilms in UK)
May 1, 2002... Z/l Imaging has secured an order from UK-based Simmons Aerofilms Limited for its POS Z/l 510[TM] Position and Orientation System with Inertial Measurement Unit. POS Z/l 510 is Z/l Imaging's OEM version of Applanix Corporation's POS/AV-DG[TM]....

Applanix Corporation of Ontario. (Newsround: Aerial Cameras).(wins contract from Aerial Image Centre of the National Land Survey of Finland)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Applanix Corporation of Ontario, Canada, has been awarded a contract to provide two POS AV[TM] (Position and Orientation System for Airborne Vehicles) systems to the Aerial Image Centre of the National Land Survey of Finland. This fully...

Leica Geosystems. (Newsround: Aerial Cameras).(launches airborn digital sensor, a camera)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Leica Geosystems introduced its AD540 Airborne Digital Sensor to American customers in late April. The camera will remain in the 'States until the end of this month for demonstration flights, details of which can be obtained from Mike...

Digital dual spectral band cameras from Recon/Optical Inc. (Newsround: Aerial Cameras).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Digital dual spectral band cameras from Recon/Optical Inc. (ROI) of Barrington, Illinois, have been successfully flight-tested in a US Navy SHAred Reconnaissance Pod (SHARP), the Navy's next generation in aerial reconnaissance. ROI's CA-279/M...

ISTAR imager takes to the skies. (Newsround: Aerial Cameras).(launches airborne digital scanner)
May 1, 2002... Early April saw EADS subsidiary, ISTAR, announce the operational launch of its HRSC AX imager, an airborne scanner that uses pushbroom technology to acquire 25cm resolution imagery in full color and near infrared - directly in digital format....

Creating the perfect image: not as difficult as you might think if you follow this step-by-step digital workflow guide based on Leica Geosystems' ADS40 camera development. (Aerial Cameras).
May 1, 2002... From flight planning to deliverables Flight Planning The ADS40 captures seamless strips of imagery, eliminating the need to plan for individual exposures. For flight planning, operators define ground sampling distance and area to be...

A new alliance between Bartholomew and ParkPilot should make it easier to find the perfect parking spot using the digital version of the London Parking Atlas with street level data sets from Bartholomew. (Business Briefs: Aware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A new alliance between Bartholomew and ParkPilot should make it easier to find the perfect parking spot using the digital version of the London Parking Atlas with street level data sets from Bartholomew. The new version delivers time-sensitive...

Cad-Capture. (Business Briefs: Aware).(launching CaptureServe DM document service)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Cad-Capture is touring the country with the IMX2002 exhibition to launch its CaptureServe DM service. This provides a business portal for industry and offers a range of state-of-the-art on-line document and knowledge management applications....

DigitalGlobe. (Business Briefs: Aware).(international resellers to market/sell high-resolution imagery products)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DigitalGlobe has announced its international resellers which will market and sell QuickBird high resolution imagery products. DigitalGlobe's will encourage resellers to work closely with customers to meet their specific needs and maintain long...

ERDAS, Inc., ERDAS India Pvt. Ltd. (Business Briefs: Aware).(Indian unit to distribute Leica's Geographic Imaging and Airborne Data Acquisition systems)
May 1, 2002... Following Leica Geosystems' acquisition of ERDAS, Inc., ERDAS India Pvt. Ltd., has been appointed the sole distributor for Leica's Geographic Imaging and Airborne Data Acquisition systems and as a sub dealer for the GPS/GIS data collector...

DAT/EM Systems International of Alaska has signed a contract with Genesys International Corporation Limited. (Business Briefs: Aware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DAT/EM Systems International of Alaska has signed a contract with Genesys International Corporation Limited to distribute DAT/EM Photogrammetric mapping software, hardware and services in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar....

The GeoInformation[TM] Group. (Business Briefs: Aware).(Cambridgeshire County Council chooses Cities Revealed Updates from GeoInformation Group)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Cambridgeshire County Council has chosen Cities Revealed Updates[TM] high-resolution aerial photography from The GeoInformation[TM] Group to help monitor Cambridgeshire's major mineral and waste development sites. For the second consecutive...

IBM GFIS Solutions have now teamed with Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) and its subsidiary SatNav, established for the growing market of Software Services and GIS Solutions. (Business Briefs: Aware).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... IBM GFIS Solutions have now teamed with Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) and its subsidiary SatNav, established for the growing market of Software Services and GIS Solutions. The GIS team has 250 man-years of experience in Telematics,...

Imass K2[R]. (Business Briefs: Aware).(win Tynside and Northumberland technology award)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Imass K2[R] has won the Tyneside and Northumberland Business Award for Technology. mass K2[R] enables organisations with spatially distributed operations and assets to respond more effectively to major incidents, system emergencies and routine...