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EUROTECH acquires sub-surface remote sensing technology

EUROTECH Ltd. has announced that it acquired from Trylon Metrics Inc. the world wide rights to proprietary and patented remote sensing technologies referred to as Electromagnetic Radiography(TM) and Acoustic Core(TM) in an all stock purchase transaction. This new capability will enhance the market potential for Eurotech's radiation-resistant EKOR(TM). Eurotech can now offer integrated environmental remediation products, assessment, and monitoring services throughout the life cycle of a nuclear remediation or hazardous waste cleanup project. Electromagnetic Radiography and Acoustic Core technologies provide 3D images of subsurface contaminants with a high degree of discrimination and precision. The technologies offer large area coverage at high resolution that are significantly more cost effective than monitoring methods currently used for environmental assessments.

Visit: http://www.eurotechltd.com/

NovaLIS Technologies releases latest version of Parcel Editor

Cool new tools, fewer mouse clicks for repetitive tasks, and improvements to Librarian make Parcel Editor 3.4.1 a must have for parcel mapping professionals. New workflow methods translate into less repetition, fewer mouse clicks, and faster mapping updates. For example, the Librarian interface now remains static throughout multiple tile releases. This means users can now click through the steps for releasing a tile once, and then release multiple tiles without having to re-trace their steps. In addition, the Edit Annotation interface now allows the user to apply multiple edits at once, instead of having to apply edits one at a time. Cool new editing tools also save users time and frustration. The Copy and Copy Many tools enable users to take an existing line or set of lines and copy it to another area of the map one or many times.

Visit: www.novalistech.com

GPS Manufacturer THALES Navigation Names President & CEO, and COO

THALES Navigation, a world leader in the development and manufacturing of GPS equipment for its Magellan, Ashtech, DSNP and MLR product lines, has appointed Dean E. Senner as President and Chief Executive Officer. THALES Navigation earlier named Henry Gaillard to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Senner brings to his new role more than 20 years of executive and entrepreneurial experience in Fortune 100 technology companies with expertise in profit and loss, strategic planning, engineering, operations and manufacturing. Gaillard's management experience includes five years as CEO of GPS manufacturing companies in France: MLR Electronique, DSNP and, most recently, THALES Navigation, S.A. The new THALES Navigation, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif, was formed July 2001 after THALES acquired Magellan Corporation.

Visit: www.thalesgroup.com

HAICOM announces Compact Flash GPS receiver

HAICOM Technology Ltd. is announcing and starting its mass production of Compact Flash GPS receiver (HI-302) on July. HAICOM CF GPS is world first CF GPS receiver with build-in active antenna and work with most PDA come with CF or PCMCIA slot in the markets. With HAICOM CF GPS and your PDA, it can work as a personal navigation system. It is most flexible, lightweight, cost effective and powerful device. It is a brand new peripheral for your PDA and notebook application.

Visit: http://www.haicom.com.tw/

Richmond, Indiana Selects Woolpert for implementation plan development

Woolpert LLP has been contracted by Richmond, Indiana, to create an implementation plan (IP) for their geographic information systems (GIS) department. The goal is to provide an IP to input the city's storm and sanitary data into their GIS system. The project will consist of interviews of the sanitary, storm, engineering and city and county GIS departments. The recommendations from the interviews will include: manpower needs for collecting data and populating the database; database maintenance of the GIS data; hardware/software needs; and the use of mobile solutions for field crews. The final portion of the recommendation will include how the data can be used, and the impact this will have on the manner in which it is entered into the system. In addition, the IP will include various options of global positioning sytems (GPS) facility inventory and inspection and overall management of data once it is accomplished.

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Laser-Scan Building on the success of GIS 2001- A Report

The GIS 2001 exhibition is now over after a hectic three days of meeting visitors and demonstrating technology. It's been a hugely successful event for geospatial solutions experts Laser-Scan. Following the launch of the company's new range of easy-to-use products (Gothic JADE and Gothic Web Mapper) the Laser-Scan stand was inundated with high profile visitors keen to find out more. They were impressed with the demonstrations of Laser-Scan's capabilities in the fields of web mapping and location based services; the power of Laser-Scan's technology can be harnessed via the company's Java-based application development environment, enabling customers to build their own valuable solutions.

Visit: www.laser-scan.com

Asia News

Linc app for Saudi group

BANGALORE: Linc Software has developed a Web-based real estate application for the Saudi-based property development group, Abdullah Bin Saedan (ABS).

The product was developed on Microsoft Technologies that include VisualBasic, MS-ASP, XML and SQL Server 2000. The product, which has a GIS interface, revolves around determining the profitability of a given property, forecasts returns and assists in the planning of sales and investment strategies, according to a company release.

Source: Business Line

Disaster management to go to Home Ministry

News Delhi (PTI)- Taking steps to implement the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on internal security, the Home Ministry said on Tuesday that an exercise has been undertaken to transfer the disaster management machinery to it from the Agriculture Ministry. "A committee of officers has been constituted to work out modalities of the transfer," a Home Ministry spokesman said. This comes in the wake of recommendations of the GoM, headed by Home Minister L K Advani, that disaster management should be part of the Home Ministry to put in place appropriate procedures and structures to cope with natural calamities like cyclones, floods and earth quakes.

However, the GoM felt that drought relief and famine apparatus should remain with the agriculture ministry. "This exercise is likely to be completed shortly," said the spokesman.

Source: The Pioneer

Beijing Reveals Plans for Ten New Hi-tech Bases

Beijing Reveals Plans for Ten New Hi-tech Bases China's capital of Beijing recently announced plans to build ten science-technology bases over the next few years to help the municipality's economy maintain steady and rapid economic development, according to China Daily.

The ten hi-tech bases, all similar to the Zhongguancun "Chinese Silicon Valley" Sci-tech Park in northwestern Beijing, will play a crucial role Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games, a municipal official attending the Beijing Technology Innovation Conference on September 25.

The official added that in preparing for the 2008 Olympics, all the city's enterprises would undergo thorough redirection and be encouraged to manufacture more Olympics-related products in a bid to provide support for the mammoth world sports gala.

According to the official, by the year 2005, Beijing wants to foster five large-scale companies with net annual sales volumes surpassing 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) each and 100 large enterprises whose annual sales incomes can top one billion yuan (US$12.1 million) each.

Source: People's Daily