GEO: connexion articles from October 2002

GEO: connexion archives from October 2002

One year on. (Upfront).(aftermath of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US)
October 1, 2002... It is exactly a year to the day since events in New York and Washington moved the world. And just as oldies' such as myself recollect with clarity the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King, so today's younger generation will...

Arctic Atlas updated on web. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... * The Arctic Environmental Atlas has presented environmental information on the Arctic region in an interactive map on the Internet since December 2000, The map has now been updated with a new interface, more extensive data themes and new...

Help for the visually impaired. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... * Navigable data provider, Navigable Technologies, has teamed with VisuAide, a leader in digital audio solutions for the visually impaired, to develop a voice-enabled navigation application using NAVTECH digital map data. The application -...

Global warming threatens glaciers. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The great majority of the world's glaciers appear to be declining at rates equal to or greater than long-established trends, according to early results from a joint NASA and United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. At the same time, a...

Biodiversity Atlas supports Sustainable Development. (News).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... * The first 'World Atlas of Biodiversity: Earth's Living Resources for the 21st Century', from United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) shows how mankind is dependent on healthy ecosystems for all...

CARTOMAP from Barcelona. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... ANEBA (Barcelona, Spain), has launched version 4 of CARTOMAP for field data capture and land-surveying. Pocket CARTOMAP runs on any pocket, handheld or tablet PC supporting Windows CE 3.0 and is connected by cable or wireless to surveying...

ESRI makes less noise in Westminster. (News).(Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... If you are wandering through central London and marvelling at the lack of litter, you can thank a ground breaking partnership between ESRI (UK) and Westminster City Council. The ESRI based system enables Westminster's Noise Officers and field...

German interface for French software. (News).(GraS GmbH)(Lorienne S.A.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Lorienne S.A (Montreuil, France) and GraS GmbH (Berlin, Germany) have integrated the EDBS/ATKIS reader in the GISLink system from the Lorik[TM] line of software products. Designed for ATKIS data users who need to publish high quality visual...

ADAS saves money with Getmapping. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Getmapping plc is supplying aerial imagery of the UK and Irish Republic to environmental specialists ADAS in support of surveys it is undertaking for the European Commission. The wide availability of data is expected to save ADAS considerable...

Steanne field capture for engineers. (News).(Steanne Solutions Limited)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Steanne Solutions Limited (Cheshire, UK) - a division of OiS plc has launched Version 3.5 of its GeoGrad - GIS field data collection and management system. Both Pen Computer and CE versions will operate as map-based or forms-based collection...

North West passage to Mars with ER Mapper. (News).(Mars Society uses ER Mapper v6.3)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Mars Society has used ER Mapper v6.3 on an expedition to the Haughton Impact Crater (Devon Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada) to generate geological and biological field data as part of a 2-week Martian fieldwork simulation. A crew of...

Agreement on MasterMap digital imagery. (News).(Ordnance Survey )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Ordnance Survey has successfully concluded negotiations with The GeoInformation Group, Getmapping and UK Perspectives (Simmons Aerofilms and Infoterra) on what will become a seamless, orthorectified photographic mosaic layer within MasterMap....

TruckStops schedules engineers. (News).(Endeva is involved)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Much more efficient scheduling of visits by service engineers is in prospect for Endeva, the national specialist in fulfilment and servicing for consumer electronics and domestic appliances, following the adoption of TruckStops to plan their...

Siemens navigates with Tele-Atlas. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Tele Atlas (Gent, Belgium) has published two new navigation CDs for VDO-Dayton car navigation systems. This is a result of a new agreement between Tele Atlas and Siemens VDO Automotive. The navigation CDs for Germany and for Benelux will offer...

InfoTech helps BBC Measure Evil. (News).(British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... InfoTech Enterprises Europe were contracted by the BBC to work on the controversial documentary "Measuring Evil", which catalogued the life and crimes of Dr. Harold Shipman. Shipman was responsible for the murder of 215 of his patients and has...

Laser-Scan speeds spatial searches. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Laser-Scan's (Cambridge, UK) newest product Radius Topology has undergone preliminary testing with IT consultants InfoTech Europe. The first test involved conducting a spatial intersect query on InfoTech Europe's Ordnance Survey data within the...

Telcontar introduces traffic manager. (LBS News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Traffic Manager from Telcontar (San Jose, USA) is a new product that seamlessly integrates real-time traffic flow and incident information with existing applications and location-based services. By using Traffic Manager with Telcontar's Drill...

Correction.
October 1, 2002... Our apologies for two errors appearing on page 56 of the September issue. In the article headlined 'Exceeding Expectations' EarthData is, of course, based in North Carolina, and the full name for its latest soft copy product is Summit...

AT&T team with Microsoft. (LBS News in Brief).(AT and T Wireless Services Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... AT&T Wireless becomes the first mobile operator to announce plans to deliver corporate location-based services built using the Microsoft MapPoint .NET platform for mobile professionals. These newly developed services will complement AT&T...

LBS companies co-operate in Paris. (LBS News in Brief).(location based services)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Traveldoo Technologies, the European provider of electronic travel management solutions has integrated Maporama's online location-centric services into its software solutions - ShopSite, Portal and Mobile. These solutions provide on-line...

WEBfleet controls odometers. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... datafactory AG has enhanced the WEBfleet fleet management portal on the web to support online calculation and control of vehicle odometer data. Current or historical odometer data and various fleet management reports can now be displayed with...

Government funding for UK satnav projects. (News).(satellite communications and navigation)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Funding worth [euro]14.2 million has been announced for projects and studies proposed under S@TCOM, a British National Space Centre initiative to encourage private venture development in satellite communications and navigation. Successful...

Results +++ results: all values converted to euros. (News).(Leica Geosystems)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... First quarter 2002/03 results from Leica Geosystems were generally in line with its forecast of slower growth and lower profitability compared to a year ago. Total sales were [euro]121 million, down 12.5 per cent compared to the same...

PriceWatch *. (News).(Brief Article)(Illustration)
October 1, 2002... PriceWatch * stock price change Autodesk 13.54 [up arrow] +1.26 Intergraph 16.39 [up arrow] +0.39 MapInfo 6.35 [up arrow] +0.15 Trimble 14.25 [up arrow] +1.23 Navigation * Share price (converted to...

Autodesk invests. (News).(CAICE Software Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Autodesk is splashing out [euro]10.2 million on the software and related assets of Florida based CAICE Software Corp. The acquisition, due to be concluded as we went to press, will add CAICE's portfolio of surveying and engineering applications...

Was Noah here? (Middle East).(Land Info International is supporting a probe of the resting place of Noah's Ark)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... A probe into an anomaly on Mount Ararat in Turkey, the legendary resting place of Noah's Ark, is receiving expert support from Land Info International of Denver, Colorado, USA. Porcher Taylor, a US intelligence expert, is leading the...

Ordnance Survey welcomes Saudi guests. (Middle East).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Top mapping experts from Saudi Arabia were the latest overseas visitors to be received at the headquarters of Ordnance Survey in Southampton. The delegation, led by Saudi Arabia's Director General of Surveying, Mr Al Rajhi and his...

Saudi dataset from Navigation Technologies. (Middle East).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Navigation Technologies of Chicago USA has announced the availability of navigable digital mapping for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This latest dataset complements others released last year and means that continuous routing from Kuwait to...

EIS position paper. (Africa).(Entitled Geo-information supports decision-making in Africa is the title)
October 1, 2002... Hot off the press from the environmental information network, EIS Africa, is a position paper; prepared for the recent Earth Summit in Johannesburg. Entitled Geo-information supports decision-making in Africa, the paper (available as a PDF...

Bringing communities together. (Africa).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... New from ESRI of Redlands, California, is a collection of case studies highlighting the value of GIS in building sustainable communities. The 16-page compilation draws on practical examples from more than a dozen African nations in...

ComputaMaps enhances RF planning data. (Africa).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... ComputaMaps of Cape Town, South Africa, a manufacturer of high resolution 3D geographic databases for use in wireless network design, has enhanced its free online 500m Radio Frequency (RF) planning data server, by adding global cloud-free...

Sustaining our world: ESRI spreads the geography message. (Connect).
October 1, 2002... In one of this year's biggest gatherings of GIS professionals, 12,000 registered delegates from 135 countries converged on San Diego's newly-extended Convention Centre in July for ESRI's 22nd Annual User Conference. If they came seeking...

Laser-Scan user group conference 2002. (Connect).
October 1, 2002... This year's proceedings, held at the Wyboston Lakes Conference Centre near Peterborough, kicked off with a keynote address from Oracle's EMEA region product manager for Spatial and LBS, Mike Tumill. In outlining the benefits of interoperable...

DDGI: German umbrella organisation for geoinformation. (EUROGI Member Profile).(Deutscher Dachverband fur Geoinformation e.V.)
October 1, 2002... Deutscher Dachverband fur Geoinformation e. V. Date of foundation: 1994 Status: Non-profit umbrella association President & Chairman of Board: Dr. Joachim Wachter (since 1998) Secretary-General: Petra Kohler (since Jan 2002)...

AGI launches London information service. (AGI View).(Association for Geographic Information)
October 1, 2002... The potential of GI, employing a simple Web-based geographic information service, was vividly demonstrated by the AGI in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers as part of the London Initiative...

Carney new CEO of SPOT in USA. (People).
October 1, 2002... Neal Carney has replaced Gene Colabatistto as CEO of SPOT Image Corporation (Chantilly, USA). Carney has been Senior VP and COO of SPOT's U.S. operation for the last 4 years and he originally joined in 1992. "Neal has been instrumental in...

Thales appoints Vancans. (People).
October 1, 2002... Thales Navigation (Santa Clara, USA), a provider of GPS solutions, has appointed Neil Vancans as General Manager of its newly formed Professional Products Strategic Business Unit. He will define business strategy as well as leading the sales,...

Thompson takes charge at EROS. (People).
October 1, 2002... U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has appointed R.J. Thompson as Chief of the EROS Data Centre (Sioux Falls, USA). Thompson becomes the EROS Chief after nearly 40 years of service with the USGS. "The EROS Data Centre plays a vital role in the...

Dr Paiva to Pacific Crest. (People).
October 1, 2002... Pacific Crest Corporation (Santa Clara, USA) has welcomed Joseph Paiva, Ph.D. to its Board of Directors. Formerly Vice President of Land Survey at Trimble Navigation, Paiva brings years of experience and leadership in the survey industry...

New LizardTech Director. (People).
October 1, 2002... Karen Morley has been appointed Director of Product Management for Geospatial Imaging at LizardTech, (Seattle, USA). Morley will guide the product marketing of LizardTech's geospatial imaging solutions including the MrSID(r) software solution...

Solutions president for Space Imaging. (People).
October 1, 2002... Space Imaging, (Denver, USA), has announced the appointment of Gene Colabatistto as president of Solutions. Colabatistto has been president of SPOT Image Corporation and will succeed Kass Green who will continue to serve in an executive role...

At the risk of over-simplifying: in this open letter, John Higgins takes issue with a perceived shortcoming of Ordnance Survey digital map data. (Talk).
October 1, 2002... Ordnance Survey (OS) is the main supplier of precision digital map data in the United Kingdom, and North Norfolk District council (NNDC) has employed this resource for use within its Geographic Information System (GIS) since 1992. These...

Have we forgotten more than we know? Robert Barr addresses a topic close to his heart. (Dangling Segment).(Column)
October 1, 2002... As regular readers of this column may have noted, I am very interested in addresses. It is arguable that the postal address is the single most frequently used geographical reference world-wide. Not only does it allow billions of items of mail...

Watch on the Rhine: Stefan Jaeger explains how a GIS-enabled resource sheds new light on the darker side of Europe's premier waterway. (Germany).
October 1, 2002... * Recent catastrophic flooding in Germany, the Czech Republic and other parts of central Europe have served to highlight the human and financial cost of neglecting river defences. The Rhine is no exception, and while those living along its...

A new power tool for Hilti. (Newsround).(Hilti Deutschland GmbH)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Hilti Deutschland GmbH, a member of the international group best known for its power tool hire centres, decided to find out if the 15 customer centres in its northern region (Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, Niedersachsen and...

RasDaMan. (Newsround).(Active Knowledge GmbH offers the middleware)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... RasDaMan: an unlikely name for a high-performance database system for large raster maps, but one that is nevertheless creating quite a stir. This internationally-patented middleware from Active Knowledge GmbH of Munich maintains virtually...

Peruvian Ministry of Transport (MTC). (Newsround).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Munich-based GAF AG has successfully implemented a GIS-based transportation planning support system for the Peruvian Ministry of Transport (MTC). The system - the first of its type based on ESRI's new ArcGIS 8.x product family and...

Two into one goes nicely in Bietigheim-Bissingen: Thomas Offenhauber and Robert Klarner report on a smooth transition from analogue to digital. (Germany).(Stadtwerke Bietigheim-Bissingen is the privatized utility)
October 1, 2002... The privatised utility serving the city of Bietigheim-Bissingen is congratulating itself on a job well done in implementing a GIS-based network information system in record time. But it is nothing unusual for Stadtwerke Bietigheim-Bissingen...

SICAD: where next? GEO: connexion asked Holger Schade of SICAD Geomatics to outline the company's future direction following its acquisition by AED Graphics earlier this year. (Germany).(Interview)
October 1, 2002... Does the acquisition entail a strategic realignment of the SICAD Geomatics business? If so, what is the new direction? Yes, it does mean a slight adaptation of the strategy. SICAD has always been a strong supplier of vertical market...

One-stop-shopping for municipal data comes to Giessen: residents of one German city can breathe a sigh of relief. (Germany).
October 1, 2002... [>] Citizens of Giessen in southern Germany once had to dash from one municipal department to another to gather paperwork needed for building and other permits. The whole process proved so complex and time-consuming that it became known as the...

From 2 to 3D in Hamburg: Rolf-Werner Welzel outlines a 3D city model prototype, now being put through its paces by the Free and Hanseatic city. (3D Focus).
October 1, 2002... * In nearly all activities undertaken by the Hamburg city administration, CAD and GIS has become commonplace in two-dimensional applications. Indeed, the digital 2-D city map of Hamburg or Digitale Stadtgrundkarte (DSGK) was well received...

Occlusion-free 3D viewing. (Newsround).(IDELIX offers the application)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... * 'Detail-in-context' viewing specialist, IDELIX, has unveiled a prototype demonstrator of PDT 3D, its technology for the occlusion-free viewing of 3D data. This new, patents-pending application of the company's Pliable Display Technology...

Research Systems Inc. (RSI). (Newsround).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... * Eastman Kodak Company subsidiary Research Systems Inc. (RSI) is staging a contest for the best code and graphics developed using IDL (Interactive Data Language), its cross-platform visualisation tool for the in-depth analysis of large,...

Clark Labs. (Newsround).(Idrisi32 Release 2 gets a service upgrade)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... * Clark Labs has released a major service upgrade to its Idrisi32 Release 2 geographical modelling package that includes an HDF reader and import/export routines for ERDAS Imagine.img and Earth Resource Mapping's ER Mapper.ers files. With...

Geodata for efficient trucking: Dirk Van Schil suggests how navigable data can help HGV operators enhance their safety record ... and cut costs at the same time. (Transport & Logistics).
October 1, 2002... While the Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) market has had its fair share of woes in the current economic climate, it also suffers some specific problems for which geographic data can offer solutions. Safety is a prime example, for the public image...

Training, the VideoRoute way: bus operators across Britain are seizing on CBT to keep their services on the straight and narrow. Laura McConnell reports from the hot seat. (Transport & Logistics).(Route Trainer is offered)
October 1, 2002... A 20 per cent shortfall in drivers presents Britain's bus operators with huge operational challenge. It follows that new recruits must be trained to high standards as quickly as possible if quality services are to be maintained. ...

A concrete achievement: Dirk Lowenberg relates how GPS-assisted scheduling helps RMC beat the traffic and keeps its customers coming for more. (Transport & Logistics).(RMC Group)
October 1, 2002... Britain's RMC Group has supplied raw materials and prefabricated components to the construction industry since 1930. However, today's heavy traffic conditions, roadwork and other delays make life increasingly difficult for carriers. ...

Generalisation: where less is more; it's all a matter of scale, says Patrick Revell addresses a topic that lies at the heart of many data re-engineering programmes. (Cartography).
October 1, 2002... [>] Generalisation is the task of deriving small scale maps or geo-data products from more detailed existing mapping or source data (covering a smaller area per sheet). It involves exaggerating those aspects that are important for a particular...

e-PIMS: mapping the third estate; in concluding this two-part article, Arnold Butler reviews progress on a government-wide project that is pioneering new standards, new mapping ... and new thinking. (Part 2).
October 1, 2002... For e-PIMS to achieve its goal, it is essential that participating departments subscribe to standard interfaces and linkages. e-PIMS supports BS 7666 for property addresses, plus Ordnance Survey's MasterMap[TM] and the government-wide e-GIF...

Mastering OS MasterMap: Nigel Benham and Mohammed Wahead propose a strategy for managing large volumes of MasterMap data within Oracle9i. (Data Storage).(Ordnance Survey MasterMap)
October 1, 2002... * Ordnance Survey MasterMap (formerly known as the DNF -- Digital National Framework) was released in November 2001, and unlike the spaghetti construct of Land-Line, offers greater flexibility in feature-level management and capture. Each...

View from Space: British isles. (Hands On).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... * This CD title from Vivendi publishing division, Havas Interactive, is clearly intended for educational use, and while the satellite imagery supplied by M-SAT (much of it previously unpublished) is necessarily lowered in resolution to suit the...

Lost Civilisations: Rediscovering Ancient sites through New technology. (Bookself).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Ed. Austen Atkinson Chrysalis Books, price [pounds sterling]25 ISBN 1-86205 522 X Running to almost 200 pages, this fascinating hardback from Chrysalis Books claims to be the first to relate how remote sensing, computer-aided modelling...

Conservation Technology Ltd. (Business Briefs).(FieldWorker Products Ltd. gets a UK reseller)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Conservation Technology Ltd. (Somerset, UK) has become a UK reseller for the FieldWorker range of field data capture and synchronisation software, from FieldWorker Products Ltd of Toronto, Canada. FieldWorker is implemented in Java and runs on...

SAS and ESRI have announced the creation of an access product between the two companies' software. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... SAS (Cary, USA) and ESRI (Redlands, USA) have announced the creation of an access product between the two companies' software. They will also jointly explore industry-specific spatially enabled business solutions for targeted market segments....

Infrasoft the UK civil engineering 3D design and visualisation software company have become resellers of Getmapping. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Infrasoft (Horsham, Surrey), the UK civil engineering 3D design and visualisation software company, have become resellers of Getmapping's aerial imagery. This will provide an affordable route to visualisation when coupled with Infrasoft's CAD...

Thurrock Council is making its GIS, supplied by GGP Systems accessible to all of its departments for maps, images and public information. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Thurrock Council (London, UK) is making its GIS, supplied by GGP Systems (Croydon, UK) accessible to all of its departments for maps, images and public information. The GIS with a corporate land, street and property database will be the basis...

InfoTech Enterprises Europe. (Business Briefs).(South Wales Police get ECRIs Rigel Analyst software)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... ECRI's Rigel Analyst software has been supplied to the South Wales Police by InfoTech Enterprises Europe (London, England) enabling them to carry out Geographic Profiling of repetitive crime patterns. Rigel Analyst can be used for any property...

Challenge Transat 2002. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Infotech Enterprises Europe is also sponsoring the Logica boat on the first leg of Challenge Transat 2002. Sailing from Southampton to Boston in three weeks, this race has been designed to pit the determination, seamanship, navigation and...

Landmark Information Group. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Landmark Information Group (Exeter, UK) believes its database holds the key to many of the problems faced by the government in using geography to deliver joined-up information services both to the citizen and internally to manage the business...

Logica. (Business Briefs).(Integrated Network Management system has been introduced)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Logica (London, UK) announced the successful introduction of the Integrated Network Management (INM) system developed to support Anglian Water Services (AWS) asset management. The NM solution is based around the ArcGlS product set from ESRI....

Maporama. (Business Briefs).(I-Media enters into a strategic partnership)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Maporama (Paris, France) has announced a strategic partnership with I-Media to develop an ASP-based, multi-channel direct geo-marketing solution, This is within the framework of Maporamas Location-Based Email Initiative and is designed...

Overview Mapping. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Overview Mapping (Northampton, UK) has introduced a unique and innovative range of maps that combine aerial photographs with conventional street maps in a product called PHOTOMAP[TM]. The range now comprises 40 UK towns and cities, including...

REALVIZ[R] has announced that CANCOM Ltd. have become a reseller of the company's software product portfolio. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... REALVIZ[R] (Sophia Antipolis, France) has announced that CANCOM Ltd. have become a reseller of the company's software product portfolio. CANCOM is Europe's number one Apple reseller. The REALVIZ range of digital imaging software includes...

SICAD-UT network information system. (Business Briefs).(Bietigheim-Bissingen upgrades analogue plans)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The municipal authorities of Bietigheim-Bissingen (SW.BB) (Germany) have upgraded their analogue plans to the SICAD-UT network information system. As part of a package based on this standard application for the supply sector, SW.BB also...

Survey Supplies. (Business Briefs).
October 1, 2002... Survey Supplies (Liverpool, UK) has relaunched its website with the option to buy on-line available for the first time. As well as improving the quality and quantity of product descriptions, the web site has been developed to enable buyers to...

GEODEV. (Hardware Briefs).
October 1, 2002... GEODEV (Manno, Switzerland) has developed the RMS-Laser for continuous and autonomous millimetre scale distance measurements. The distance meters are managed by a RMS Measurement Station with power supply and data communications. RMS-Laser is...

Anders+Kern have launched the new Hitachi CMP5000WXE Plasma display. (Hardware Briefs).
October 1, 2002... Anders+Kern (Suffolk, UK) have launched the new Hitachi CMP5000WXE Plasma display, a super-slim XGA high-definition, high brightness 50-inch panel. With 16:9 aspect ratio and 1280 X 768 resolution, the CMP5000WXE is ideal for large format, wide...

Leica Geosystems. (Hardware Briefs).
October 1, 2002... Leica Geosystems (Atlanta, USA) have sold a high-throughput Leica DSW500 aerial film scanner with roll film capability to the Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). APFO is the primary source of...

Positioning Resources Ltd. (Hardware Briefs).
October 1, 2002... (Aberdeen, UK) have introduced support for the new Nexicam Digital Camera with their PocketGIS field data software. This opens up a more compact solution for adding digital camera images as feature attributes to GIS data. The Nexicam Digital...

Euromap. (Software and Data Briefs).
October 1, 2002... Euromap (Munich, Germany) a subsidiary of GAF AG, has tested 'ClearView," a processor for the removal of atmospheric noise in satellite images. Typical remote sensing satellites orbit 800 km above the Earth and the atmosphere degrades the...

INPHO GmbH. (Software and Data Briefs).
October 1, 2002... INPHO GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) has launched a new release of MATCH-AT software for aerial triangulation. In addition to faster processing times MATCH-AT V3.3 has a project generation wizard, sub-block handling with free block adjustment and...

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions have launched GeoMedia WebMap 5.0 with enhancements that include improved display, performance, and spatial analysis. (Software and Data Briefs).
October 1, 2002... Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions (Huntsville. USA) have launched GeoMedia WebMap 5.0 with enhancements that include improved display, performance, and spatial analysis. GeoMedia WebMap is a Web-based map visualization solution that offers...

MapInfo. (Software and Data Briefs).
October 1, 2002... MapInfo (Windsor, UK) has launched StreetPro [R] v3.0 the latest edition of its 1:10,000 scale street-level data product. StreetPro provides up-to-date street coverage for Europe for a range of essential location-based applications and mapping...

MAPS geosystems. (Software and Data Briefs).
October 1, 2002... MAPS geosystems (Munich, Germany) has introduced PromptServer. the fourth version of its universal image processing Client-Server-Technology that provides fast unencumbered display of image data on any of conventional GIS platforms and on a web...