2007 January 18

This issue sponsored by

GITA

If, for some reason, you cannot read this document, please visit:
http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/archives.php?issue=20070118

Editor's Introduction

This week I bring you another batch of responses to my geospatial industry survey, including one by Matthew O'Connell, CEO of GeoEye, and a review of an ESRI Press book on the use of GIS for environmental management; also, a mention of an article on the dwindling budget for Earth observation and a small clarification. Plus, a large compilation of news items from press releases.

After writing this newsletter for nearly two years, starting this week I include my last name, below.

— Matteo Luccio

Geospatial Industry Survey

Here's a second batch of responses to my industry survey questions. I will have many more next week. Please send me yours!

Respondent Job Title Company
Matthew O'Connell CEO GeoEye
Randy Johnson Chair Hennepin County Board of Commissioners
Joydeep Chakraborty   RMSI
John Brandes Manager of Specialty Products Agfa Corporation

Read more …

Book Review: GIS for Environmental Management

Robert Scally, GIS for Environmental Management
(Redlands, California: ESRI Press, 2006)
Paperback, 187 pages

Local government planners, biologists, geologists, conservationists, and others increasingly rely on GIS to manage land use, identify and prioritize targets for protection and restoration efforts (see my piece on this topic in last week's issue), monitor change in land coverage, and justify and document policy decisions. Often GIS is the only practical way to comply with complex environmental regulations over large and diverse areas.

Read more …

Briefly Noted

The January 16 issue of the New York Times ("Science Times" section, page D4) carried an article by Andrew C. Revkin titled "Scientists Warn of Diminished Earth Studies From Space." Here are the first four paragraphs:

Read more …

Department of Corrections

Last week, in my article about Microsoft's deal with GlobeXplorer and DigitalGlobe's purchase of the company, the word "announced" in each of the two bullet items, coupled with the order of those two items, was misleading. While my headline correctly indicates the sequence of events, the announcements occurred in the opposite order, on January 8 and 9.

News Briefs

Please note: I have culled the following news items from press releases and have not independently verified them.

  1. CONTRACTS & COLLABORATIONS

    1. NATO's NC3 Agency has awarded the GIS Data Preparation Contract to TENET. Read more …

    2. DigitalGlobe, a provider of commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, is partnering with Lowrance, a manufacturer of marine electronics since 1957 and GPS navigational systems since 1992. Read more …

    3. Digital Data Technologies, Inc. (DDTI) has installed its AccuGlobe E9-1-1 Dispatch mapping software in the Zanesville Police Department. Read more …

    4. Timmons Group, a provider of geospatial and engineering consulting services, has been selected to design and build the mapping component of a new interactive Website set up by Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine and the Council on Virginia's Future. Read more …

    5. Pictometry International Corp., a provider of digital, aerial oblique imagery and measuring software, has begun a collaborative effort with AML Solutions Group (AML) in Bellevue, Washington, that enables AML customers who utilize the Smallworld 4 Product Suites from GE Energy to use Pictometry software directly from Smallworld 4 Products. Read more …

    6. LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, has become an associate sponsor of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Read more …

    7. The Douglas County, Nebraska, Engineer has chosen Varion Systems, the software development and value-added reseller division of GeoAnalytics, Inc., to implement a GPS-based AVL system and Web-based GIS tracking and reporting application. Read more …

    8. Infoterra Ltd (an EADS Astrium company), a provider of geographic information products and services, will lead BOSS4GMES (Building Operational Sustainable Services for GMES), a key project within GMES, Europe's principal environmental monitoring initiative. Read more …

    9. Aliant Directory Services, a source of business and consumer information and an advertising medium for growing local businesses, has chosen DMTI Spatial (DMTI), a Canadian provider of location-based solutions, to improve the quality of the maps in their Yellow Pages directories. Read more …

    10. The City of Dublin, Ohio, has chosen Varion Systems, the software development and value-added reseller division of GeoAnalytics, Inc., to implement Azteca Systems' Cityworks. Read more …

    11. Airports Authority of India (AAI), the national agency responsible for the management and maintenance of the country's civil aviation, both on the ground and in the air, has awarded the No Objection Certificate Application System (NOCAS) project to NIIT Limited, parent company of NIIT-GIS Ltd. (ESRI India). Read more …

    12. Frankfort Plant Board (FPB) has chosen the Fiber Manager application by Telvent Miner & Miner (TM&M) to help manage their fiber optic network within their current ArcFM-based enterprise GIS. Read more …

    13. REIS, Inc. has awarded a contract to Merrick & Company, a provider of LIDAR, digital orthoimaging, photogrammetry and GIS mapping, to deliver raw and processed LIDAR data and digital black and white orthophotography for approximately 900 square miles in Sullivan County, New York. Read more …

    14. Michael J. Baker Jr, Inc. has contracted with Marshall and Associates, Inc. to provide professional GIS services to the City of Norfolk, Virginia. Read more …

    15. 1Spatial, a provider of certification of spatial data quality, has achieved Oracle Certified Partner status membership level of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). Read more …

    16. ScottishPower has awarded a #750,000 contract to ESRI (UK) to provide their second generation mobile GIS, which will enable up to 800 engineers working across 70,000 miles of ScottishPower's UK electricity networks to access and record map-based information while in the field. Read more …

  2. PRODUCTS

    1. R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc. — civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, GIS, and visualization consultants — has launched a newly designed website for complete GIS solutions. Read more …

    2. Navman, a designer and manufacturer of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, has launched a tethered, ultra sensitive GPS receiver and antenna device, the Smart GPS Sensor. Read more …

    3. TerraGo Technologies will bundle several of its mapping solutions used to create and distribute GeoPDF files into a special package for colleges and universities. Read more …

    4. Bentley Systems, Incorporated has launched its new Bentley OnSite software that connects the worlds of civil engineering design and construction. Read more …

  3. CONFERENCES & TRAINING

    1. GIS users from around the world will gather June 18-22 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, for the largest annual GIS conference in the world. Read more …

    2. The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) is partnering with the Open Geospatial Consortium to organize the next in a series of Emerging Technology Summits (ETS IV) focusing on information system interoperability standards, such as Building Information Models (BIM). Read more …

    3. The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI Forum) will take place July 03-06 at Salzburg University, Austria. Read more …

    4. The inaugural Rocket City Geospatial Conference, October 15-17 at the Huntsville Marriott, will focus on GIS and location-based services (LBS) applications developed by organizations from northern Alabama and surrounding regions. Read more …

  4. PEOPLE

    1. TerraServer, an Internet mapping company that owns and operates the TerraServer.com website, has recently hired Brian Randy Funk as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Read more …

    2. Azteca Systems, Inc., a provider of GIS-centric asset maintenance management solutions, has appointed William Lang as its new Account Manager for the Midwest Region. Read more …

  5. OTHER

    1. ESRI has expanded its 4-H Club GIS grant program for 2007. Read more …

GIS Monitor Back Issues

You can reach more than 23,000 GIS professionals every issue by sponsoring GIS Monitor. For more information, email us.

Contact

Please send comments and suggestions to:

Matteo Luccio, Editor
GIS Monitor

Ultimate Map/GIS Directory — Your search is over!

GIS Monitor is published by:

Reed Business Geo, Inc.
100 Tuscanny Drive, Suite B-1
Frederick, MD 21702 USA
Tel: +1 (301) 682-6101
Fax: + 1 (301) 682-6105

Subscribe/Unsubscribe

If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe visit our subscription page.