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Autodesk has announced its sponsorship of this year's GSDI World Conference to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 15 - 19 June 2009. The theme is Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges and Autodesk is supporting the event as a Platinum sponsor.

Leica Geosystems announces the update of its ATHENA Program, the Leica Geosystems program involving GNSS and Structural Monitoring for non-profit organizations, with the latest future proof Leica GRX1200+ receivers and the Leica AR25 choke ring antenna.

As Platinum Sponsor, ESRI (UK) is pleased to support AGI GeoCommunity '09.

Intermap Technologies announced it has completed the data collection of its NEXTMap USA 3D mapping program. History's first company-funded initiative to map 3.1 million square miles (more than 8 million km2) of the entire contiguous U.S. and Hawaii was completed March 16, 2009.

Conservationists, bird watchers, farmers, and developers across the state of California can now access bird habitat information from a digital bank of maps and data created with ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) technology. Commissioned by the National Audubon Society and BirdLife International, the Important Bird Areas (IBA) program designates locations essential for breeding, wintering, and/or migrating birds. Conservation activities at these sites include land acquisition, habitat restoration, advocacy on behalf of IBA, and education to local communities about their unique birds and bird habitats.

Web GIS technology was the hot topic at the nineteenth ESRI Petroleum User Group (PUG) conference in Houston, Texas. Attendees discussed ways the evolution of geographic information system (GIS) server technology and Internet capabilities provides oil, gas, and pipeline companies with a means to aggregate, access, and publish information. GIS experts presented ways to get greater value from the data businesses already have by improving accessibility to it across the company.

GeoEye, a  provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced MJ Harden's purchase of a new Intergraph Z/I Imaging Digital Mapping Camera (DMC) along with an additional aircraft, a Cessna Conquest. The digital camera is a complete imaging system that simultaneously captures black-and-white, color, and near-infrared digital imagery with engineering-level accuracy. MJ Harden expects the new camera and aircraft to be fully operational this spring.

This years AGI GeoCommunity conference will include a Geoweb stream coordinated by Christopher Osborne, the founder of #Geomob.

Mercator Suite 7, the new version of STAR-APIC's cartographic production software, will be demonstrated for the first time in the US on the STAR-APIC stand (booth 419) at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) from March 23-27, 2009 in Las Vegas