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Tryfan and the Fourteen Peaks
 Ever since
detailed maps of Snowdonia have been produced, the 3,002-foot Tryfan has
been a member of the Fourteen Peaks, the list of 3,000-foot Welsh
mountains. But recently some experts have asked, "Does Tryfan really
measure up?" The matter will be settled in June when three amateur mountain
surveyors haul professional GPS equipment and computers to the summit. Read
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News
Workflow
Management
ESRI is to conduct a free, live
training seminar demonstrating Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX). Getting
Started with JTX to Manage Workflow will go online on Thursday 18th March
2010, at 9:00AM, 11:00AM., and 3:00PM Pacific time. Read
more
China Fully ImagedRapidEye has completed ahead of schedule a contract to image 7.8
million km² of the country of China. Read
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Dealers Wanted
A number of companies
are currently expanding their network and offering resellers a business
opportunity. GIM International has a dedicated
web page for these announcements. Companies interested in following up
on these, or to post an annoucement on this page, please email Victor van
Essen. All enquiries addressed to a company seeking a dealer will be
passed direct to the company concerned.
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Solar
Atlas of Berlin Airborne Lidar has yet to become
as ubiquitous as aerial imagery for GIS applications. But one important use
has recently been identified. An online atlas of potential solar energy
yield was created for the city of Berlin by measuring parameters such as
roof area and slope, taking into account shadowing from vertical objects
such as chimneys and masts. The atlas is freely accessible to home and
business owners and the hope is that it will create more demand for
photovoltaic and solar thermal panels. Read
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(Advertorial)
V100 GPS Compass Helps Revolutionizing Parking Enforcement By
partnering Hemisphere GPS’ V100 GPS Compass with Tannery Creek
Systems Inc’s patented autoChalk™ software, parking enforcement
can now ticket offenders in real-time as they drive past in their patrol
car. The partnered technology has revolutionized parking enforcement and is
proven to save significant amounts of time and money. In fact, the
AutoChalk system increases productivity over manual chalking by 500 percent
and has a return on investment rate well below one year. Read
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High-precision Measuring Stations The MS05A and MS1A Measuring Stations,
ultra-high-precision automatic total-stations, are now available on the
European market. The MS05A provides 0.5"-angle accuracy. The sub-millimetre
EDM measures up to 3,500m range with a single standard prism with 0.8mm +
1ppm precision, and typical measurement speed is 2.4 seconds. Read
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First ALTM Pegasus for Blom CGR Blom has become the first to purchase the ALTM
Pegasus, the newest member of Optech's ALTM Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper
product family. Blom, soon to take take delivery of the
system, has been involved in major European projects relating to
environmental control and risk assessment using Lidar and orthophoto data.
This will be the seventh Lidar system for the Blom Group. Read
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- 24 March 2010SmartGeometry
2010, Barcelona (Spain) |
| 23
- 26 March 20105th Workshop on
Geographical Analysis, Urban Modelling, Spatial Statistics, Fukuoka
(Japan) |
24
- 25 March 2010 Geo-10,
Conventry (UK) |
| 30
March - 02 April 2010Geoform+
2010, Moscow (Russia) |
| 11
- 16 April 2010FIG
Sydney, Sydney (Australia) |
| 13
- 15 April 2010Moving
Technology to Market, Brussels (Belgium) |
| 13
- 18 April 2010AAG Annual
Meeting, Washington DC (USA) |
| 25
- 29 April 2010Remote Sensing,
the Synergy of High Technologies, Moscow
(Russia) |
| 25
- 29 April 2010ACSM
2010, Phoenix (USA) |
| 25
- 29 April 2010GITA
2010, Phoenix (USA) |
| 26
- 30 April 2010ASPRS
2010, San Diego (USA) |
| 27 - 29 April 2010GEO Siberia
2010, Novosibirsk (Russia) |
| 29 April 2010Oracle Spatial
User Conference, Phoenix (USA) |
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