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The magnificent image clarity and pleasing color balance of the 50cm GeoEye-1 satellite imagery over New Zealand now provides an option for agencies to cost effectively update portions of their aerial photography coverage.

Graticule, the Leeds-based software engineering company specialising in mapping, geographical information systems and database systems for monitoring and managing assets, announces ints new Point2StreetAddress application.

John Copple, CEO of Sanborn, a provider of geospatial solutions, announced that it has won three prime contract awards for state-wide broadband mapping services along with subcontractor awards for similar broadband mapping services in four other states.

Safe Software announced that its spatial extract, transform and load (ETL) solution, FME, can now seamlessly integrate Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D data into geographic information systems (GIS).

IHiparc Geotecnologia has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamL medium format camera system. The deal was brokered by Vexcel Imaging reseller, GeoToolBox Ibérica S.L. (GTBi), based in Madrid, Spain.

The new release of ESRI ArcGIS Explorer builds on its intuitive design, improving access to geoprocessing services and expanding available maps in the Basemap Gallery. ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable globe viewer with geographic information system (GIS) functionality.

Merrick & Company, a provider of light detection and ranging (LiDAR), digital orthophotography, photogrammetry, hyperspectral mapping, and geographic information systems (GIS) mapping, announces the release of Version 6.1 of the Merrick Advanced Remote Sensing (MARS) software suite www.merrick.com/MARS.

Infoterra SGSA, part of Spot Infoterra, the Earth observation division of Astrium Service, has acquired 100% of Enifosa's (Enginyeria i Fotogrametria S.A.) shares, a Spanish firm in 3D urban atlas production and updating.

The European LiDAR Mapping Forum [ELMF10], to be held in The Hague from November 30 - December 1, 2010 is a two-day technical conference focussing on the use of airborne, bathymetric and terrestrial LiDAR with a particular focus on mobile mapping to support transport, urban modelling and asset management and GIS applications.