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Avenza Receives ‘Geospatial World Innovation Award’ for Mobile Mapping
Avenza Systems, producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop, celebrates its recognition as a mobile mapping provider at this year’s Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam, Netherlands by winning the conference’s Geospatial World Innovation award for Mobile Mapping with its PDF Maps app and digital map store solution for the iOS platform.
OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Web Services, Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed.
ASPRS Approves Resolution on U.S. Imaging Program
By a unanimous vote of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Board of Directors, the Society has issued a third resolution calling for immediate support and funding for the continuation of the Nation’s moderate resolution imaging program. Due to a technical failure in the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument on-board the Landsat 7 spacecraft in May 2003, and the recent decline of the Landsat 5 spacecraft, the continued collection of useful moderate-resolution, multispectral remote sensing data is now jeopardized.
Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints
Trimble introduced a new large-format, map-printing service for the construction, surveying, agriculture, and field research trades. The new service is available through MyTopo.
Blue Marble’s Third Annual User Conference Free to All Pre-Registered Attendees
Blue Marble Geographics offers free registration to their Third Annual User Conference in Denver, CO. This one day conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt Denver from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM CST. Blue Marble understands the significance of staying well informed in such a fast paced industry, which is why they feel it is important to make this educational experience as accessible to their users as possible through offering free registration.
The OGC Seeks Participants for Hydrologic Forecasting Interoperability Experiment
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in a Hydrologic Forecasting Interoperability Experiment (IE). This activity, which will begin on September 22, 2011, is designed to advance the development of WaterML 2.0 and test its use in a forecasting context with various OGC service interface standards.
Microsoft Announces USGS Certification for UltraCamLp
Microsoft’s UltraCam Division announces that the UltraCamLp successfully completed the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Sensor Type Certification Process. After a thorough review, USGS found the UltraCamLp “to be designed, manufactured, tested, and supported to the level required to reliably meet the performance claims of the manufacturer when operated within manufacturer’s intended operational parameters.”
OGC announces the formation of an OGC WaterML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG)
WaterML 2.0 is a candidate OGC encoding standard for the OGC announces the formation of an OGC WaterML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG)
Technology Innovation in Photogrammetry Award
Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiary Vexcel Imaging, GmbH were the winners of the Technology Innovation in Photogrammetry award at the Geospatial World Forum Conference for the company’s UltraCamXp Wide Angle digital aerial camera and for the monolithic stitching capability of its UltraMap workflow software. The honor was received on 18 January 2011 in Hyderabad, India, at a ceremony attended by more than 800 delegates.
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