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With one conference underway in Winnipeg, and only two weeks to go until the feature conference in Mississauga, Intergraph Canada’s clients are excited to identify themselves as speakers at the conferences.

ERDAS is offering Four Seconds to Save the World, a free webinar on Thursday, September 25, 2008, highlighting ERDAS TITAN 2009. When every second counts, ERDAS TITAN users can consume data from multiple public and private sources into a variety of virtual globe, Internet and rich client applications. ERDAS TITAN 2009 rapidly enables multitudes of stakeholders to publish and consume geospatial data and location-based content in one online, collaborative network.

A vision of 3D Digital Cities will be presented in the UK in a keynote speech by Geoff Zeiss, Director of Technology at Autodesk at the annual conference – AGI GeoCommunity 08 – of the Association for Geographic Information. The conference takes place on 23 – 25 September at the Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon, U.K.

Caliper Corporation announced the Table Chooser for the 2006 American Community Survey (ACS).

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the launch of a new group dedicated to helping architects, engineers, construction professionals, and owner-operators design, build, and operate better-performing, more sustainable buildings.

NovAtel Inc. (NovAtel), an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of precise positioning technology, introduced at the ION 2008 tradeshow in Savannah, Georgia, the high performance, next-generation GNSS-750 choke ring antenna. The innovative, 3D design of the GNSS-750 enables superior low level elevation tracking, with the ability to track satellites as soon as they are visible, down to the horizon and even below. It incorporates an ultra-wideband Dorne-Margolin element and has optimized antenna gain so it can be used with most manufacturers’ geodetic receivers.

GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced the Company had received notice from Nasdaq that as a result of filing its restated financial reports and current quarterly report on Form 10Q on Sept. 8, all compliance issues have been resolved, and GeoEye remains in good standing on The Nasdaq Global Market exchange. Consequently, GeoEye's mid-October hearing before a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has been cancelled since the issue is now moot.

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of RolleiMetric from Rollei GmbH of Braunschweig, Germany in an all-cash transaction. RolleiMetric is a leading provider of metric camera systems for aerial imaging and terrestrial close range photogrammetry. Closing of the transaction, anticipated at the beginning of the fourth quarter, is subject to certain closing conditions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

PCI Geomatics, a developer of software and solutions for geospatial imaging applications announced the expansion of its image management systems with the addition of support for the PostgreSQL database. PCI Geomatics’ image management systems now support the capability to read both raster and vector layers from a PostgreSQL database, and offer an easy to use and flexible solution for effectively managing imagery and GIS data.