NovAtel Inc. has announced that its ProPak-LBplus GPS receiver now supports OmniSTAR’s new XP Lband satellite service. XP is the latest in a range of satellite correction services offered by subscription from OmniSTAR. With the latest version 2.31 release, all ProPak-LBplus products will have the combined capability to receive the Omnistar XP and Omnistar HP services.

Intermap Technologies Corporation has announced that it has completed the data acquisition of the state of Hawaii under its NEXTMap USA program. The completion of Hawaii progresses Intermap’s plan to digitally map the entire continental United States and Hawaii in three dimensions. Acquisition of the entire states of California, Florida and Mississippi has also been completed.
www.intermap.com

MacNaughton’s NuVision solutions deliver the highest quality in stereoscopic visualization like flicker – free 3D realism. The product line supports stereo ready software used in GIS, Computational Chemistry, Mechanical / Architectural CAD, Robotics, Resource Management, Oil & Gas Exploration, Scientific Visualization, Site-Base entertainment and 3D
Animation.
www.nuvision3d.com

PCI Geomatics has announced the release of Geomatica 10. The latest version emphasizes automation, productivity, and support for more than 100 geospatial data formats. It offers solutions for various geomatics processing requirements, while maintaining interoperability with outside software packages. It has Smart Digitizer technology for semi-automated feature extraction, enhanced charting, complete Oracle 10g support, and new atmospheric correction algorithms for hyperspectral data.
www.pcigeomatics.com

Geodetic Systems, Inc. (GSI), a provider of portable 3D coordinate measurement systems for diverse industrial applications, recently announced it is shipping a new version of its metrology software - - V-STARS 4.4 SR2. This updated release stacks up the enhancements in the industry-leading photogrammetry product line for high precision data acquisition.
www.theautochannel.com

Intergraph Corporation and TerraGo Technologies have announced that versions of MAP2PDF have been jointly developed for Intergraph product lines, GeoMedia and Digital Cartographic Studio (DCS). It has also acquired POPPENHÄGER GRIPS GMBH, a software company based in Neunkirchen/Saarland, Germany which provides geospatial analysis software and services to municipalities and utility companies.

The sureshotgps system was launched in Australia recently. Using Australian technology, the sureshotgps system provides golfers with all the benefits of traditional golfing GPS systems, in an easy-to-use, portable format.

Similar in size to a mobile phone, the sureshotgps unit allows data for 10 courses to be stored in the hand-held unit at any one time. Golfers can also download course data from an extensive list via the Internet. www.pga.org.au

Visual Learning Systems, Inc. (VLS), providing automated feature extraction (AFE) technology, has announced the immediate availability of Feature Analyst 4.0 for SOCET SET. Earlier this year the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected Feature Analyst for SOCET SET for early technology insertion into the NGA production environment. NGA intends to deploy it across their Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC) workstations. BAE Systems has also released an upgraded version of its SOCET GXP software application that supports image analysis, geospatial analysis, photogrammetry, and targeting—all from a single user interface.
www.na.baesystems.com, www.featureanalyst.com

Leica Geosystems releases new GPS RTK Processing option for Leica MobileMatriX and new Edition of Leica MobileMatriX Edition as extension to existing ArcGIS 9 Desktop installations. Leica MobileMatriX, the link between GIS technology from the world’s leading supplier, ESRI® and surveying equipment from the world’s leading manufacturer of spatial data capture equipment, Leica Geosystems represents a new era in mobile data collection.
http://www.leica-geosystems.com

Kinematic Navigation has announced the release of PPro2 Static software. It processes raw GPS observational data to improve positioning accuracy. One can achieve decimeter, centimeter or even millimeter level positioning with PPro2. Such processing requires data to be collected from two static GPS receivers, one of which be at a known position. It supports both single or dual frequency receiver equipment.

GfK MACON is now supplying the new 2005 version of the digital map edition “Europe Postal and Administrative”. The Europe Edition comprises the postal and administrative territories of all European countries including Turkey.
www.gisuser.com

Hemisphere GPS is supplying Vector heading systems to three of the seven sailboats competing in the Volvo Ocean Race - a sevenmonth, 31,000-mile, globe-circling odyssey involving some of the world’s best sailors. All three boats will be using state-of-the-art Vector products for heading accuracy when the Volvo Ocean Race - widely known as the Mount Everest of ocean racing.
www.hemispheregps.com

Bentley Systemshas announced the acquisition of the Research Engineers International (REI) business from netGuru, Inc. The business features the STAAD.Pro line of leading structural engineering analysis software, which is now offered by Bentley worldwide. It facilitates the design of steel, concrete, timber, and aluminum structures for buildings, plants, tunnels, bridges, and more.
www.bentley.com

MapInfo Corporation has reported earnings per share of $0.18 for the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005, representing the tenth consecutive quarter of year-overyear earnings per share growth for the company. Included in the results is an approximate $0.03 per share benefit due to a decrease in the effective tax rate. For the same period last year the company reported earnings per share of $0.09. Revenues for the fourth quarter grew 24 percent to $40.3 million versus $32.5 million for the same quarter last year.
www.mapinfo.com

Leica Geosystems announces that it has won an order for 30 GPS1230 surveying systems from Wolf Survey and Mapping, a division of Destiny Resources Services Partnership in Western Canada.

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging has entered into a strategic partnership with Acquis to facilitate the processing and delivery of geospatial data within the Oracle® Spatial 10g environment.

Thales Navigation has announced a partnership with Brandmotion, LLC to deliver the first integrated aftermarket Magellan navigation system, based on the best-selling Magellan RoadMate™. It partners with leading companies to develop, market and distribute integrated entertainment, safety and convenience products for automobiles. It will provide integrated navigation devices for select high volume vehicle lines, beginning with an integrated vehicle navigation system for Ford F-150 trucks. The Magellan integrated navigation system delivers a full-color touchscreen with visual, voice and text-prompted turnby- turn guidance for door-to-door routing anywhere in the United States and Canada.

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced single-chip assisted A-GPS solution in 90 nanometer process technology for mobile phones. Its DRPTM technology, the GPS5300 NaviLinkTM 4.0 single chip offers the smallest system area for a discrete GPS solution, lowest total system cost, low power consumption and high performance A-GPS functionality. To speed the development of A-GPS enabled handsets, it is optimized to interface with TI’s 3G technology and OMAPTM processors to deliver a complete solution for handset OEMs.

Marubeni Solutions has signed a distribution agreement with Ekahau, Inc., and starts reselling its wireless LAN-based Real-Time Location System (RTLS) and site survey tools. RTLS provides ubiquitous positioning indoors and outdoors with accuracy of 5m maximum error, whereas GPS and PHS can basically be used only outdoors with less precision. It tracks and pinpoints laptops with wireless LAN adapter, PDAs and Wi-Fi tags. RTLS creates a signal strength map of the wireless LAN access points, by using received signal strength indicator (RSSI), it tracks Wi-Fi enabled terminals, and graphically displays the location of the terminals on a personal computer screen.

Japan’s Vodafone K.K.commences sales of the Vodafone 903T 3G handset by Toshiba, the world’s first mobile handset capable of networkassisted GPS navigation both in Japan and abroad. It will also launch the ‘Vodafone live! NAVI’ GPS navigation service enables customers to check their current location, search for surrounding area information and find the best routes to destinations.