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• New Geofabric Tutorials

  
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  The Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric) tutorial series has expanded, with a further two tutorials now available. The Geofabric is a specialised Geographic Information System. It registers the spatial relationships between important hydrological features such as rivers, water bodies, aquifers and ...
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• Using GPUs for compute-intensive geospatial applications

  
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  The Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was names the fastest computer on Earth in November 2012, according to the Top500 list.  Most of Titan ’s computing capacity comes from its NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerators. Based on the same architecture used in NVIDIA’s workstation and ...
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• NGS Announces Release of Geodetic Data from Geoid Slope Validation Survey 2011 (GSVS11)

  
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  Between February 2011 and April 2012, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) executed one of the most comprehensive geodetic surveys in its history: the Geoid Slope Validation Survey of 2011 (GSVS11). The survey was performed to quantify the accuracy of differential geoid modeling based on NGS’ airborne Gravity for the ...
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• New Leica MultiWorx for AutoCAD: Easy Creation of Survey Deliverables from Laser Scanning and Imaging with the New Leica Nova MS50 MultiStation

  
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  (Heerbrugg, Switzerland/Las Vegas,USA, 5 June 2013) – Leica Geosystems’ new Leica Nova MS50 MultiStation, announced at HxGN Live, enables surveyors to easily perform 3D laser scanning tasks and work with point clouds in 3D. To help newcomers to laser scanning take full advantage of the system’s capabilities, ...
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• Mobile geospatial solution improves data quality at water utility

  
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  At the HxGN conference in Las Vegas Chris Bodely of Anglian Water which provides water and wastewater services to 6.3 million customers in the southeast of England gave an overview of GIS at the water utilty and in particular their implementation of a mobile GIS. This is relevant for any utility that is still ...
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• Hexagon Geospatial: Flying Under the Radar But with Laser Focus to Improve Products

  
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  Listen carefully and you might just hear the real vision for Hexagons geospatial solutions. This was my goal in attending HxGN LIVE, the annual user conference that brings together Hexagons Metrology, Process Power and Marine, Geosystems and Security Government and Infrastructure... Continue reading
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• Synthesizing Hexagon

  
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    Its been nearly three years since Intergraph agreed to acquisition by Hexagon and over eight years since Hexagon acquired Leica Geosystems, which had bought ERDAS in 2001. During this time, there has been a gradual synthesis to integrate corporate cultures and, more importantly,... Continue reading
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• The marijuana arrest capital of the U.S.

  
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  In very few places are more people arrested for possessing marijuana than in the District of Columbia. And of the thousands arrested each year, African Americans are more than eight times more likely to be arrested than whites — a disparity exceeded by only one state. Those are the findings of an American Civil ...
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• Your Career as a Land Surveyor Video: Southeast Community College

  
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  Here’s an awesome video by Southeast Community College about becoming a land surveyor. Heck, after watching this video I wanted to become a land surveyor…wait, I’m already one, but this reminded me about how great and important land surveying is! You can learn more here »»Southeast Community College Land ...
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• Topcon’s GTS-250 Total Station Series Economical, Compact, Extremely Accurate

  
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  Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announces the GTS-250 series of high-performance total stations designed to provide field-ready quality and accuracy with an economical, compact design. Denny Welch, senior vice president for the TPS Survey Business Unit, said, “These are job site-tested total stations for everyday ...
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• Electricity and Gas User Forum at Geospatial World Forum 2013

  
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  I chaired the Electricity and Gas User Forum at the Geospatial World Forum 2013 conference.  There were very interesting presentations from Africa, Europe, Middle East, India and Canada touching a range of topics relating to the application of geospatial  in the gas and electricity sector. Lead speaker: Geoff ...
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• Exelis Unveils Remote Geospatial Mobile Data Platform; Jim Phillips Comments

  
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  ITT Exelis has debuted a new platform that aims to connect users to geospatial information on mobile devices when operating in remote or hostile locations. Exelis created Jagwire Mobile for... Read more »
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• GeoNexus Technologies Expands Their Geographic Information Systems Offering with an Integrated Geospatial Enterprise Solution

  
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  GeoNexus Technologies Expands Their Geographic Information Systems Offering with an Integrated Geospatial Enterprise Solution Ann Arbor, Michigan (PRWEB) May 29, 2013 GeoNexus Technologies announced today their Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integration solutions for use with Oracle Utilities Work and Asset ...
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• Convergence of geospatial and building information modeling (BIM) accelerates

  
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  About a decade ago Dave Sonnen, Global Analyst for Spatial Information at IDC, projected that the locationaware market for geospatial services would exceed the traditional GIS market in 2005/2006. The release of Google Earth in June 2005 transformed the geospatial services ecosystem. Today, location-aware technologies ...
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• Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup May 26, 2013

  
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  Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Archive – Last 3 weeks: Updates Around The Interwebs: Geomatics Today The Professional Land Surveyor Daily The Autocad Civil 3D Daily
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• Introducing The BIM for Govies™ eBook

  
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  This post was originally published on Acronym Online , a sister publication to Technically Speaking. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is fast changing how both the public and private sector design , build and manage both building and infrastructure projects such as roads and highways. But how can your agency ...
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• Oracle Spatial and Graph to support NURBS

  
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  At the Oracle Spatial and Graph User Meeting , the folks from Oracle outlined some of the things to expect in the next version of Oracle 12c.  I was very impressed.  All of the below is my interpretation of what will be in Oracle 12c. Parametric curve support The really big news for the architecture, ...
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• Leica Zeno GIS: Simplified Positioning With 3rd Party Applications

  
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  (Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 16 May 2013) – Leica Geosystems’ latest version of Zeno Connect supports the output of local grid coordinates in addition to the already supported output of WGS84 coordinates. The output of local grid coordinates allows Leica Zeno GIS users who have installed a 3rd party GIS application ...
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• Open source: then and now

  
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  I was asked participate on a panel on open source geospatial organized by Eclipse LocationTech at the Location Intelligence in Washington DC.  I decided to look at how software had changed since the early days of open source which I tend to tie to the formation of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in 1999.  ...
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• The National Map Corps - Volunteers Receive Recognition

  
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  Citizen volunteers are making significant additions to the U.S. Geological Surveys ability to provide accurate information to the public. Using crowd sourcing techniques, the USGS project known as The National Map Corps ( TNM C) encourages citizen volunteers to collect manmade structure data in an effort to ...
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