15^th - 21^st February 2001

Integrated Location-Based 3G Wireless Internet Services to be Jointly Marketed by Nortel Networks & Webraska. [ 21/02/01 ]
Nortel Networks and Webraska have agreed to jointly market integrated location-based, third generation (3G) wireless services that are expected to help accelerate availability of the new, high-performance Wireless Internet.

Alto Technology launches PDVSA Project in Venezuela [ 21/02/01 ]
Alto Technology Resources, Inc launched of a comprehensive project for Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) that combines a unique technology transfer training program and an airborne hyper-spectral remote sensing study of the country.

Russia Postpones Dumping Mir [ 20/02/01 ]
Russian space officials on Thursday put off the tentative date for dumping the Mir space station until mid March. The 15-year-old station would now be brought down between March 13 and March 18, the dumping was previously set for March 6.

NEAR Collects Data From Asteroid's Surface [ 20/02/01 ]
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker spacecraft sitting on the dusty surface of asteroid 433 Eros has started relaying data. The NEAR scientists and engineers received information gleaned by the device on Sunday, February 18

NASA's Future Resides on Space Shuttle Atlantis [ 20/02/01 ]
Shuttle Atlantis and five astronauts are scheduled to blast off from Kennedy Space Center tonight. Their job is to deliver the $1.38 billion U.S. Destiny laboratory to the frontier outpost, where it is supposed to serve as both a central hub for scientific research and a crucial linchpin for future station construction.

Florida's mock disaster drill to demonstrate effectiveness of the Communicator! High-Speed Notification System [ 16/02/01 ]
The Communicator's GIS-based desktop mapping interface, allows emergency management officials to select a specific location for message delivery. The Communicator! then delivers life-saving instruction to recipients by telephone, pager or cellular. The system generates detailed callout status reports before, during and after each notification.

Mobile Location Services to generate US$18.5bn global revenues by 2006, says analysys [ 15/02/01 ]
Expectation that mobile location services could be a 'killer application' are unlikely to be fulfilled, says a new report Mobile Location Services and Technologies from Analysys, the telecoms and new media advisors

Voice-Activated, 'Concierge' Services to be enabled by MapInfo & Nortel Networks [ 21/02/2001 ]
MapInfo and Nortel Networks announced an agreement to jointly market to service providers an integrated platform for delivery of voice-activated Wireless Internet 'concierge services' to provide location-based information.

MapStream Interface a New Interactive Internet-Based GIS [ 21/02/2001 ]
WildTangent announced today the introduction of an innovative approach to Web-based GIS mapping interfaces, called MapStream. The MapStream interface incorporates a wide range of unique features, including searching for points of interest (POI) such as restaurants, hotels, banks and other destinations, which are displayed as 3D icons for customized brand identity.

MonsterDaata launches new internet-based MapViewer application [ 19/02/2001 ]
MonsterDaata, Inc., an information infrastructure utility company has launched its new customizable, Internet-based search engine technology called MapViewer, which enables users to easily access the company's extensive nationwide database of Tax/Plat, Flood, Zoning and other paper-based maps from their PCs.

Flood alert all mapped out by Ordnancesurvey [ 19/02/2001 ]
The 3-D digital elevation models of the landscape created by LIDAR are highly detailed and closely match with every undulation on the ground. LIDAR data of river valleys, coastlines, and other flood plain areas of Britain are available with Ordnance Surveys.

3Dlabs launches Wildcat II 5110, world's fastest 3D Graphics Accelerator [ 17/02/2001 ]
The Wildcat II 5110 incorporates the latest evolution of 3Dlabs' ParaScale architecture; integrating multiple complete geometry and rasterization pipelines into a single accelerator to deliver more than twice the performance of the Wildcat 4110 at a similar price point

Numerex introduces FastTrack wireless solutions [ 15/02/2001 ]
FastTrack Wireless Solutions is designed to provide users and application developers with a turnkey suite of interactive e-Web wireless telemetry interface solutions which monitor and control geographically remote systems and applications.

Future of Ordnance Survey in the spotlight [ 19/02/2001 ]
The future of Ordnance Survey is to be mapped out this spring with the launch of its quinquennial review. Planning Minister Beverley Hughes MP, the minister with special responsibility for Ordnance Survey, announced the start of the review in response to a parliamentary question

Yorkshire Global Restaurants Uses Hi-Tech Mapping System [ 21/02/2001 ]
Yorkshire Global Restaurants, has introduced a sophisticated global information system (GIS) called AnySite Program to help pinpoint the best potential sites for new restaurants, giving the restaurant chain a competitive and strategic advantage

Satellite for Environment Monitoring. [ 20/02/2001 ]
Egypt and Italy will sign an agreement in Rome this week to build and launch an environmental satellite. The Italian Space Agency and Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences will launch 'DesertSat' to monitor coastal erosion, desertification, and agricultural and water resources.

Laser-Scan and Ordnance Survey sign agreement for National Land Information Service [ 19/02/2001 ]
Laser-Scan and Ordnance Survey have signed the first-ever partnership agreement for delivery of large-scale Land-Line mapping data to the National Land Information Service (NLIS).

Reselling agreement between Global Geomatics and GeoMAP Consultants in Egypt [ 19/02/2001 ]
Now GeoMAP Consultant has become the exclusive Egyptian reseller of the c@ssini product suite developed by Global Geomatics Inc for the Middle East.

@Track Communications signs stock purchase and exchange agreement with Minorplanet [ 15/02/2001 ]
@Track Communications, a provider of wireless-based vehicle fleet management and intelligent mobile-asset-tracking solutions, announced the execution of a stock purchase and exchange agreement with Minorplanet Systems PLC, a producer and distributor of telemetric-based vehicle management information systems.

Skynet Telematics.Com Inc announces agreement with a business partner in Poland [ 15/02/2001 ]
Skamp International Ltd, dealing in Skynet / Skamp In-vehicle communications, security and tracking products in Central and Eastern Europe recently signed a franchise agreement with a division of the TCH Group for the formation of Skamp Poland.

CubeWerx Spatial Warehouse selected for Carterra(tm) Online Imagery Store by Space Imaging. [ 20/02/2001 ]
In an announcement made at GIS 2001, Vancouver, Canada, Space Imaging has selected CubeWerx Inc., a leading provider of Spatial Warehouse Solutions for geospatial data infrastructures for managing terabytes of high-resolution imagery.

New President for National Spectrum Managers Association [ 15/02/2001 ]
Chris Hardy, Vice President of Spectrum Management Solutions, has been selected by the National Spectrum Managers Association (NSMA) to serve as its new President.

Orbimage appoints Roths Child Inc as Financial Advisor [ 15/02/2001 ]
Orbital Imaging is not making the interest payment scheduled to be paid on March 1, 2001 to its bondholders and has retained Rothschild Inc. as its financial advisor to assist, among other things, in restructuring these obligations.

GPS Wireless 2001 set for March 1-2 in San Francisco [ 15/02/01 ]
More than 300 mobile information professionals, wireless carriers, mobile electronics vendors and computer companies will meet on March 1-2 for GPS-Wireless 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel-San Francisco Airport.