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GeoEye, a premier provider of satellite and aerial-based geospatial information, announced the start of commercial operations for its new GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite. The Company is also submitting imagery from the satellite to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for their certification under the terms of the NextView contract.

The NextView program is designed to ensure that the NGA has access to commercial imagery in support of its mission to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security. GeoEye won its $500-million NextView contract in September 2004. In October 2004, GeoEye selected General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems as the GeoEye-1 prime contractor. The satellite’s sensor was built by ITT Corporation.

GeoEye-1 imagery products and solutions are now commercially available in half-, one-, two- and four-meter ground resolutions. Imagery products are available in color and black & white. Color imagery comprises four bands: blue, green, red and near-infrared.

GeoFuse

Additionally, customers can search for Ikonos data in the GeoEye satellite imagery archive using the company’s newly released search-and-discovery tool called GeoFuse, where "Fuse" stands for "Find, Use, Serve and Extend." GeoFuse gives users access to a number of search-and-discovery tools, assists customers in locating available imagery which meet specific project needs and enables them to easily navigate and efficiently search. To search GeoEye’s archive, which contains more than 300 million square kilometers, please visit http://geofuse.geoeye.com.

For more information, please visit www.geoeye.com.

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of hardware/software systems for geo-imaging solutions, announces it has appointed Beijing Space Eye Innovation Technology (BSEI) as its exclusive desktop software distributor for the People’s Republic of China.

BSEI is a high-resolution satellite imagery provider as well as a sales and consultancy company pertaining to remote sensing, geographic information systems and global positioning systems. With an experienced staff and an extensive outreach to the academic, federal and commercial user community, BSEI will be the exclusive reseller of PCI Geomatics’ flagship software Geomatica in China .

Geomatica supports a broad and flexible suite of geo-imaging tools for the processing and analyzing of spatial data. It enables users to effectively employ imagery in support of a broad range of industry applications including the environment, agriculture, security and intelligence, aerospace and defense, and satellite receiving stations. With an emphasis on automation and full raster and vector integration, Geomatica is interoperable with other geospatial tools.

For more information, please visit
www.pcigeomatics.com 
www.bsei.com.cn

Galdos Systems invites to participate in the industry-leading event focused on GIS and the Internet: GeoWeb 2009 Conference. GeoWeb 2009 is taking place July 27-31, 2009 in downtown Vancouver, BC Canada at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.

GeoWeb conferences focus exclusively on geographic information systems, the Internet, and the economic potential associated with their convergence. GeoWeb 2009 will continue the tradition of focusing on the reciprocal impact of the Web and Geographic Information as well as the ever-increasing need for collaboration in light of global economic and environmental concerns.

Call for presentations reminder

GeoWeb 2009 and its organizers are currently seeking submissions for presentations and workshops. This is a must-attend conference for anyone involved in shaping the future of the geospatial industry. GeoWeb 2009 will feature well known keynote and invited speakers, 16 workshops and tutorials, 50+ technical presentations, panel sessions, and vendor networking opportunities.

New to 2009 is an emphasis on urban environments and the integration of CAD/GIS/BIM as well as a 3-day Academic/Science track on 3D modeling. If you wish to deliver a presentation please visit www.geowebconference.com to learn more about the suggested topics and submission details.

Autodesk has announced the release of AutoCAD 2010 software, one of the world’s leading design and documentation platforms. Autodesk also announced the 2010 AutoCAD family of discipline-specific software and AutoCAD LT 2010 software for professional drafting and detailing.

The latest release of AutoCAD introduces groundbreaking new capabilities to help users tackle their most challenging design problems, including free-form design tools, parametric drawing and enhanced PDF support, a top request from Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) members.

AutoCAD 2010 provides even more power and innovation to help users document, communicate, explore and customize design ideas. With new free-form design tools, users can more easily explore ideas in 3D models to create almost any shape they can imagine. New PDF import and underlay and enhanced publishing features can improve two-way communication with the extended design team. In addition, the introduction of constraint-based parametric drawing tools enables users to define persistent relationships between objects, accelerating crucial design revision workflows. AutoCAD 2010 now also supports 3D printing, which makes it easy to produce physical 3D models and physical prototypes by connecting to on-demand 3D printing services or personal 3D printers.

The updated AutoCAD 2010 software portfolio includes the following industry-specific applications built on the AutoCAD platform: Architecture, Civil, Electrical, Map 3D, Mechanical, MEP and P&ID.

The latest release of AutoCAD LT 2010, professional 2D drafting and detailing software, incorporates PDF input and output enhancements, additional 2D drafting commands for viewing and editing drawings, and 2D drafting tools from AutoCAD to help increase productivity, including the ALIGN, Xref and Block Attribute commands.

Autodesk Design Review 2010 software is also available as a free download to users of any Autodesk product including the AutoCAD 2010 family of products. With tools to review, mark up, and measure documents, Design Review enables team members to participate in an all-digital design review process. The latest release makes the review process seamless, with updates that support viewing and markup of PDF files.

Product availability varies by country. Details and purchasing options will be accessible beginning March 24, 2009, at www.autodesk.com/autocad.

RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate their own satellite constellation, announced that their system has successfully completed all post-launch testing and calibration activities, and is now ready to take on commercial operations.

The satellite constellation was successfully launched in August 2008. Since that time, RapidEye’s prime contractor, MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) has been conducting the commissioning period on both the space and ground segment in which system performance and product quality were thoroughly measured, analyzed and verified.

Paulo E. Cruvinel, Researcher from Embrapa – Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and Executive Coordinator of RIPA – Agribusiness Technological Innovation and Prospecting Network explains what impact the collaboration with RapidEye will have on their research program. “Embrapa continuously invests in strategic areas to get transit on knowledge frontiers and new technologies generation. This effort seeks to its institutional architecture in order to achieve more agility and flexibility for better interacting with public and private innovation networks and proper respond to new demands of the agriculture growth. With RapidEye being fully operational, we can better support Government needs, implementing projects related to agrometeorologic risk management and to monitor the environmental dimensions of the sustainability in tropical agriculture.”

"We successfully started the pilot project with Rapideye and we expect that it helps us to make better assessments regarding what grows where, what is damaged and what is insured potentially improving the quality of our processes and generating cost reduction", remarks Max Thiermann, President of Allianz Seguros S.A., Brazil.

A worldwide network of distributors is being assembled by RapidEye to facilitate easy access to RapidEye’s products by customers in their own language and region. These partnerships should be completed later this year. For more information about current distributors or how to purchase RapidEye’s products or services, please visit www.rapideye.de/home/how-to-buy.

An e-commerce platform is also currently under construction that will be available from RapidEye’s website. This self-service shop will allow customers to search for, purchase and immediately download RapidEye Standard Image Products with no minimum order size. The company plans to unveil ‘The RapidEye Kiosk’ within the next few months.

If you are interested in having access to demonstration datasets of RapidEye Standard Image Products, RapidEye has recently released an image of Griffith, Australia on their website in two of their three product levels. They are available for download at www.rapideye.de/demo-products.

The Esri GIS Bibliography, available at no cost from the Esri Education and Training Web site, recently surpassed 75,000 entries, making it one of the world’s largest online repositories for information about geographic information science (GIScience) and geographic information system (GIS) technology.

The bibliography references more than 1,000 sources—mostly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and books. Though mainly abstracts, the bibliography also includes some PDFs of articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and theses. A vast array of fields and industries where the work involves geospatial technology and GIScience are covered including marine sciences, health, the environment, defense, land-use planning, surveying, petroleum, and forestry.

Esri GIS Bibliography is easy to search using either the basic or advanced search engines. The advanced search includes boxes for fields such as title, author, keywords, and abstract along with the type of material being sought and the year range. Under the search feature is an area where readers can browse for books, conference proceedings, reports, journals, magazines, and other materials. Key magazines and journals are listed for convenience. Search results may be downloaded by the user.

The bibliography continues to grow. On average, about 2,000 entries are added each month. “We hope to accomplish another milestone in 2009 by reaching 100,000 entries,” Marble says.

For more information, please visit www.esri.com