In the Spotlight

GeoEye, a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced that it has agreed to purchase 100 percent of the stock of SPADAC, a geospatial predictive analytics company, for $46 million in cash and stock. Upon the completion of the acquisition, SPADAC will become a wholly owned subsidiary named GeoEye Analytics. This acquisition will enhance the breadth of GeoEye's information service offerings and expand its customer base into new markets.

GAF AG, an internationally active geo-information technology and consulting company, announces the release of a free trial version of GeoRover- a mobile geological mapping software.

On November 23rd in Sofia, Leica SmartNet Bulgaria was launched in partnership with IPOS (owners of Bulipos), who will operate the control center and Metrisys (Leica Geosystems distributor), who will take charge of the full commercial service, including user support and subscriptions.

Software from Pointools is being used to create a highly accurate, 3D model to support restoration work at the world’s fourth largest church Duomo di Milano or Milan Cathedral. Millions of laser scanned measurements were combined with other survey data and photogrammetric images allowing researchers from the Politecnico di Milano to generate both 2D and 3D visualisations, classical plans and elevations, as well as computer generated animations. 

Italy was the stage for this year's Racurs Conference. Gaeta, an ancient village near Naples was the location where participants could enjoy the international scientific and technical conference organized by Racurs. This year's conference was visited by 100 specialists in the field of photogrammetry and remote sensing, from 19 different countries, making this a truly international event. A three-day program of presentations and workshops was complemented with social events, such as an excursion to Naples and Pompeii, as well as a sports event and gala dinner.

Before a select audience of senior infrastructure professionals from  architectural, engineering, construction, and owner-operator organizations, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley and SVP Bhupinder Singh presented the company’s progress and plans for leveraging information modeling, both for increasingly integrated projects, and for operations of high-performing, intelligent infrastructure assets. Bentley Systems is dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world. 

This article summarises the findings of the master thesis 'Quality assurance of crowdsourced geocoded address-data within OpenAddresses. Concepts and implementation.'  (Stark, 2010)

The Panama Canal Authority has successfully completed the first round of tests in the installation of its new Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) system utilizing CARIS software at the Simulation Center, Research and Development Maritime in Panama. This new system will make navigation in the Panama Canal both safer and more efficient.

Without doubt the biggest news during Intergraph’s User Conference 2010 in Las Vegas, was the announcement of CEO Halsey Wise and COO Reid French stepping back from the company, to give way to President and CEO Ola Rollen of Hexagon AB, while still in the last process of acquiring Intergraph.