Image intelligence provider Definiens has established eCognition Community, an online community for Earth Sciences professionals, as part of its newly launched geospatial website.
Rural transportation safety experts at the University of Minnesota have launched a national mapping service, SafeRoadMaps.org, to help drivers identify the most dangerous portions of upcoming trips.
ITT Visual Information Solutions' ENVI software product and add-on SARscape Modules for ENVI now provide tools and support for processing the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and imagery generated by the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed satellite.
ESRI and First American Spatial Solutions have rolled out the Risk Analysis Solution for ArcGIS, a location-based risk analysis product for the insurance industry.
ROK Technologies Inc. has created a customized on-line atlas mapping interface for its client, the National Minority Quality Forum; the atlas produces maps showing the rate of HIV/AIDS infection by U.S. county.
NASA and Japan have released a new digital topographic map produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft; the map covers more of the globe and in more detail than any previous global digital elevation map, according to NASA.
Sidwell Co. says it will release version 3.4 of its Parcel Builder software at the upcoming ESRI International User Conference, July 13-17, 2009, in San Diego.
Germany's RapidEye AG has named Washington, D.C.-based MDA Federal (formerly Earth Satellite Corp. (EarthSat)) as one of its distributors in the United States; MDA Federal gained distribution rights for products and services to some U.S. government markets as part of the agreement.
DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 high-resolution 8-band multi-spectral satellite is scheduled to launch on October 6th, 2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the company announced.
