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GeoEye Announces Expansion Of Advanced Production Facility Dulles VA (SPX) May 11, 2009 
GeoEye has announced that it has completed an expansion, nearly doubling the production space, of its St. Louis, Missouri advanced production facility. A ceremony to mark the opening of the new space took place on April 27, 2009 and included a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by GeoEye's Chief Operating Officer, Vice Presidents of engineering and product engineering and many St. Louis empl ... read more
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Morgan City LA (SPX) May 08, 2009Gator Tank Rentals turned to satellite GPS and web technology to improve the tedious process of tracking thousands of pieces of expensive inventory scattered across customer locations, deepwater drilling rigs, offshore platforms, shore bases, marine vessels, and trucks. Counts were previously manual and tallied in a spreadsheet with the location of each asset being an educated guess. That ... more KVH Receives Order For It's CNS-5000 GPS/IMU Continuous Navigation System 
Middletown RI (SPX) May 08, 2009KVH Industries has announced that it has received a new $1 million order for its CNS-5000, a self-contained navigation system that combines fiber optic gyro (FOG)-based inertial measurement technology from KVH with global positioning system (GPS) technology from NovAtel. This rugged navigation solution affordably provides the precise position and orientation of a host platform on a continu ... more Bringing Geospatial Technology Into Classrooms 
Redlands CA (SPX) May 08, 2009Teachers with access to ArcGIS Desktop software (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, or ArcView) will be able to use Thinking Spatially Using GIS and newly created educational materials to integrate geospatial technology into primary-level classrooms. The new materials are available for download from the Web at no cost and complement the lessons that are currently available in the Thinking Spatially Using ... more NOAA Accepts ESRI-Based System To Modernize Nautical Chart Production 
Redlands CA (SPX) May 05, 2009The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has formally accepted a new ESRI-based system that improves how the organization produces its national suite of nautical charts. The system, Nautical Chart System II (NCS II), will utilize ESRI's Production Line Tool Set (PLTS) for ArcGIS-Nautical Solution to produce more than 1,000 paper nautical charts and provide complete covera ... more imov Messenger Adds Skyhook For Location 
Boston MA (SPX) May 05, 2009Skyhook Wireless and mov Software, creators of the imov Messenger application, have announced integration of Skyhook for location-aware instant messaging. imov Messenger is an easy to use IM aggregator application for Windows Mobile. The application brings together GoogleTalk, AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and Jabber/XMPP instant messaging applications. With the addition of location from Skyh ... more |
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Glenview IL (SPX) Apr 24, 2009Navman Wireless North America announced today that its OnlineAVL2 vehicle tracking and logistics system now has the ability to pinpoint vehicles that are being underused, based on travel distance and ignition time thresholds set by the fleet manager. This information, contained in the software's new Out of Service report, can be used to make policy changes that improve vehicle productivity ... more kPCTEL Introduces The Medallion GPS/WiMAX Mobility Antenna 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 24, 2009PCTEL has announced the introduction of its Medallion GPS multi-band antenna platform. Along with GPS tracking support, the antenna covers 806-960MHz, 1710-2170MHz and 2.3-2.6GHz frequency bands for Wi-Fi, WiMAX and PCS/Cellular Technologies in one single unit. PCTEL's Medallion antenna platform provides an efficient, cost effective solution for a variety of mobile or fixed applications, i ... more Global PND Shipments Will Stagnate At 39 Million Units In 2009 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2009The once booming personal navigation device market is grinding to a halt in 2009 with little or no growth expected in most regions. With the European PND market forecast to decline and the North American market remaining flat, Asia-Pacific remains the only growth market. "While the economic downturn is definitely a major factor, it is not the only reason why the PND segment is struggling," ... more BlackBook ACCESS Mobile Perks Program Launched For Location-Based Marketing 
New York NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2009BlackBook Media has announced the release of BlackBook ACCESS mobile perks program on the BlackBook Mobile City Guides iPhone application - the authoritative insider-curated database of restaurants, nightlife, hotels and shopping in 36 fashionable international cities. Leveraging the GPS technologies embedded in the iPhones, the BlackBook ACCESS platform enables local retail venues which a ... more |
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Charlottesville VA (SPX) Apr 20, 2009Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine business unit announces the introduction of a new family of navigation radar sets with enhanced naval display features. "We are now offering a naval display version of our highly successful commercial VisionMaster FT series of navigation radars, providing extended capabilities to meet the specific requirements of naval ships," said J. Nolasco DaCunha, vice pr ... more DLR Receives Next-Generation GPS Signal For First Time 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2009The Global Positioning System (GPS) is to be modernised and will provide a navigation service that is even more reliable and accurate in the future. On 24 March, a GPS satellite carrying a special test payload for transmitting a new navigation signal in the L5 frequency band was launched. Shortly after the switching on of the test payload, scientists from the German Aerospace Center (Deuts ... more Satnav Reflection Technology For Remote Sensing Of The Earth 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 17, 2009A rain of navigation signals falls constantly upon the Earth from GPS and the initial satellites in Europe's Galileo system, enabling an ever-increasing number of positioning and guidance services. Afterwards these microwave beams bounce back to space - where a proposed ESA mission aims to harness them as a scientific resource and explore their potential for terrestrial remote sensing appl ... more China Launches Second Compass Satellite For Global Navigation System 
Beijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2009China successfully launched its second navigation satellite early Wednesday, as part of the country's independent global satellite navigation system. The carrier rocket, Long March 3C, blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 0:16 a.m.. An official with the National Engineering Center of Satellite Navigation told Xinhua, the succes ... more
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