Hexagon's second annual international conference attracted professionals from more than 70 countries to Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Hexagon AB, provider of design, measurement and visualisation technologies, held its second annual international conference, Hexagon 2012, welcoming more than 3,000 attendees, including over 100 from Australia. The conference, held 4-7 June at MGM Grand […]
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CHC LT400 Submeter GPS Data Collector
CHC has released the LT400, a compact, rugged and cost-effective handheld submeter real-time GPS receiver for GIS and Mapping Professionals. The LT400 is ready for use with third-party GIS software applications answering to a wide range of applications, such as forestry, utilities and agriculture. Designed for real-world field conditions, the LT400 combines a […]
Property and Land Structures Lunch Time Webinar – NSW, SICC
This one hour webinar gives an overview about the history of land in Australia and introduces the land structures you might encounter in Australia. It talks about property concepts, the new Rural and urban addressing standard (AS/NZ 4819:2011) and future p WHEN: to WHERE: OnlineSTATE: NSWCOUNTRY: AUS Property and Land Structures In today's unstable political […]
$70,000 The Australian Innovation Challenge
The search is on again for the nation’s greatest ideas – in fields from environmental science to education – through the $70,000 The Australian Innovation Challenge awards. The awards are run by The Australian in association with Shell with the support of the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. […]
Autodesk introduces new BIM cloud services
Autodesk, Inc. recently unveiled Autodesk BIM 360, which includes a set of cloud services that will provide anytime, anywhere access to BIM project information throughout the project lifecycle. Autodesk BIM 360 will work with BIM solutions for design, construction and operations, including the Autodesk Building Design Suite and Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite. BIM is […]
Aging Landsat 5 switches back to MSS
Landsat 5 has orbited Earth over 150,000 times since it was launched in 1984, making it the longest-operating Earth observation satellite of its kind. During this time, two data collection instruments onboard Landsat 5 – the thematic mapper (TM) and the multi-spectral scanner (MSS) – have transmitted over five million images of land conditions […]
Doctors use sat imagery to estimate population
Chris Grundy of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine led a project to estimate the population of Am Timan in Chad using satellite images. This is the first time that a human population has been estimated from space, and has the potential to speed up medical and disaster relief efforts. Until […]
2011 Global satellite industry revenue reached USD 177.3bn
The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) recently released its 2012 State of the Satellite Industry Report. The report shows 5 percent growth in the global satellite industry revenues in 2011. Globally, 2011 revenues for the satellite industry totalled USD 177.3 billion. This is the fifteenth year that SIA has commissioned the Futron Corporation to […]
Lockheed Martin completes navigation payload milestone for GPSIII prototype
The Lockheed Martin team developing the next-generation Global Positioning System III satellites has completed a major integration and test event on the program's satellite pathfinder, known as the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST). The milestone is a key indication that the GPS III team is on track to deliver the first satellite for […]
Highest ever resolution image of earth captured
The Russian weather satellite, Elektro-L, has captured what is claimed to be the highest resolution, single-capture image ever taken of Earth from space. The camera that snapped the image is equipped with a 121 megapixel image sensor, capturing three visible, and one infrared wavelength. Due to this, vegetation in the image appears orange in […]