Market Research firm Daratech, Inc. reported that industry CEOs interviewed by Daratech were unanimous in their belief that growth consistent with the robust 11% compound annual growth rate of the past six years would return in 2010. More>>

Tele Atlas and Pitney Bowes Business Insight announced an agreement under which Pitney Bowes Business Insight will use Tele Atlas map data across its entire line of solutions, which are designed to help improve workflows and business systems.More>>

ArcPad 8.0 Service Pack 3 is available for download at ESRI's support website.More>>

Article By: Paul Mrstik, P.E. , Simon Newby

To help rebuild Highway 1 in Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development) commissioned an innovatieve ground-based LIDAR mapping solution to survey the road.More>>

Article By: Jacob Campbell, Maarten Uijt De Haag

Students and professors at the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center (AEC) recently had the opportunity to escape the classroom and participate in a flight test of their proof-of-concept terrain-referenced precision-approach guidance system. This flight test demonstrated for the first time...More>>

Article By: Adrian Bohane

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites are lauded for their ability to provide all-weather, day-and-night imaging, an important capability for a variety of end-user applications. The evolution of progressively more advanced SAR sensors has elevated the technology to the point where, today, SAR...More>>

Article By: Paul Stergiou, David Kalokitis

Engineers rebuilding lower Manhattan's power supply grid after 9/11 devised a GPS-clocked intermesh solution to bring new substations online. The process measured power sine waves, and developed software to link GPS to the electrical distribution system — shortening a 72-hour operation to four...More>>

Article By: Ian Fitzgerald

Digital mapmakers for utilities must effectively integrate GPS and GIS, while meeting the technical requirements to create true models.More>>

Article By: Learon Dalby

Geospatial data supported the security efforts for the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library on November 18, 2004, in Little Rock, Arkansas, following a long history of such practices, especially since 9/11. Spectators will remember the torrential rains, but few will ever know about the...More>>

Article By: Kevin P. Corbley, Randy Stauffer

In 1972, the United States declared war on water pollution with the passage of the Clean Water Act. As the primary water/wastewater utility for a city flanked by water on three sides, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) played an aggressive role in the battle to eradicate...More>>

Article By: Jim Engelhardt

On March 15 at the CTIA Wireless 2005 Conference in New Orleans, NAVTEQ, a global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions (LBS), awarded the winners of the second annual Global LBS Challenge. The contest, which challenged developers to build location-enabled...More>>

Article By: Dr. Sasa Tomic

Given the right modeling software, anyone can leverage the value of their GIS investment by using it to develop hydraulic models.More>>

Article By: Judy M. Troutwine

A spatial decision-support system developed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station provides forest managers with the tools to effectively remove a build-up of fuels while adhering to principles of ecological multiple-use forest management and responding to public interests.More>>

Article By: Tom Patterson

The application of geospatial technologies to wildfire management is not a new phenomenon. As a 30-year veteran of public service land management, I've taken an active role in using the latest mobile GIS technology during and after firestorms. Most recently, I've put to use an important...More>>

Article By: Sam Bacharach

What will a global tsunami-warning system look like? It will be a Sensor Web, a collection of sensors on buoys in the world's ocean earthquake zones, wirelessly connected to a network. The sensors will continuously report their three-dimensional location as well as vertical motion and vibration....More>>