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Water, wastewater, and storm water professionals now have access to an online hub of useful information and practical guides designed specifically for water utility geographic information systems (GIS) as ESRI launches the Resource Center for Water Utilities Management.

OGC announces that an Interoperability Day event will be held in conjunction with HellasGI on Friday the 3rd of April, 2009 at the Ledra Marriot Hotel in Athens, Greece.

VisionMap, a provider of digital, automatic mapping systems, announced that Fugro EarthData, Inc., one of the world's foremost providers of geospatial products and services, has selected A3, VisionMap's new digital mapping system, and will deploy two systems during Q2, 2009.

Leica Geosystems announces the Leica RCD100, the first completely integrated medium-format mapping camera on the market. The Leica RCD100 is a highly productive, yet affordable, mapping solution for those who want to convert from analog to digital airborne imaging and for those who want productivity and efficiency for smaller to medium-sized photogrammetric mapping and orthophoto projects.

At March 30, SuperGeo will hold a 2-day training course for Bizworks Corp. Inc., the reseller in Japan. SuperGeo has had great performance in Japanese market by the cooperation with Bizworks. Several reputed organizations, such as Asia Air Survey Co., Keio University, and Chiba University, have procured our products with high satisfaction. Through this training course, we expect to provide better understanding of our products, innovative technology, and services for the sales and R&D staff in Bizworks.

A bill to develop a current, accurate Federal cadastre to inventory all Federal real property has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, earning praise from MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private geospatial firms.

In February of this year Riegl Laser Measurement Systems released its latest and most advanced airborne Lidar scanner the LMS-Q680.

To learn how to use the tools in ESRI's ArcGIS software to quickly make and publish modern Web maps, tune in online to Authoring and Deploying Fast Web Maps on Thursday, April 2, 2009, at www.esri.com/lts. The live training seminar will air at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. (Pacific daylight time).

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) will lead a British project to exploit signals from GPS and GNSS navigation satellites that are reflected from the Earth for remote sensing purposes. The project will investigate a prototype instrument capable of measuring the roughness of the sea and soil moisture content, providing data for atmospheric science and for operational ocean and weather forecasting.