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Topcon Releases Spatial Factory Software for Managing IP-S2 3D Mobile Mapping Data July 13, 2010
Topcon Positioning Systems has announced the release of Spatial Factory software. According to Topcon, the simple interface of this software allows users of the IP-S2 3D mobile mapping system to easily work with the combination of point cloud, trajectory, and panoramic image data that comes from...More>>
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Trimble Introduces New Desktop and Handheld Solutions for Utilities July 12, 2010
Trimble introduced a new version of its Trimble Field Inspector solution for utility infrastructure and smart grid asset maintenance and inspection. More>>
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Blue Sky Takes on Tracking, Fuel Management in Nigeria May 20, 2010
Blue Sky Network, a provider of Iridium-based GPS tracking and communication solutions, and Upland Consulting, a management and strategy services firm, have won a project to implement FuelTrax Marine Fuel Management and GPS tracking on offshore support vessels in Nigeria. A petroleum company is...More>>
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Geneq Integrates DGPS Beacon inside SXBlue II GPS April 23, 2010
Geneq Inc. announced it has integrated a DGPS Beacon receiver inside their SXBlue II GPS product. Named the SXBlue II-B GPS, it expands the SXBlue II GPS sub-meter mapping performance to over 38 countries around the world wherever a DGPS beacon transmitter is broadcasting.More>>
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Trimble Forms New Mapping & GIS Industry Solutions Group March 18, 2010
Trimble announced it has formed a new industry solutions group within its Mapping & GIS Division. The new group, known as the Market Solutions Team, will work with strategic customers in key industries such as utilities, natural resources, transportation and municipal government to develop advanced...More>>
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Tallysman Awarded Canadian Differential GPS Maintenance Contract February 18, 2010
Tallysman Wireless Inc. (Ottowa, Ontario, Canada) has been awarded a maintenance contract, by the Integrated Land Management Bureau’s Crown Registry and Geomatic Base Branch, to support the Canada-wide Differential GPS System (www.cdgps.com). CDGPS is a wide-area satellite-based service that...More>>
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Antenova Introduces MStar-Based RF Antenna Modules for Portable GPS Device Applications December 9, 2009
Antenova Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) has added GPS Radionova RF antenna modules based on the MStar MSB2122 low power single-chip GPS receiver integrated circuit to its product line. The module has been successfully integrated into a thin credit-card-sized personal tracker reference design suited for...More>>
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SSTL Delivers GPS Receivers for ORBCOMM's New OG2 Satellites December 7, 2009
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) of the United Kingdom has delivered 18 SGR-10 GPS receivers to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of the United States to provide on-board orbit determination for the ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites.More>>
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Web-Based GIS for Enterprise December 4, 2009
Network Express is a web-based GIS solution that allows the desktop user to seamlessly edit, query, plot and report data in an easy-to-use interface. In conjunction with the 3-GIS field tool and server component, Network Express allows for the collection, management, and dissemination of geospatial...More>>
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Symmetricom Announces PCI Express Time and Frequency Processor Cards November 12, 2009
Symmetricom, Inc. today announced two PCI Express (PCIe) time and frequency computer plug-in cards.The bc635PCIe and the GPS synchronized bc637PCIe bring precise time and frequency functions to the latest computers and servers equipped with PCIe bus technology, the company said.More>>
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