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.
Safe Software's spatial extract, transform and load (ETL) software now supports Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG), a non-proprietary raster-based bathymetric data exchange format, at the behest of NOAA.
The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) has expanded across the 48 states of the continental United States, and its creators are looking to the public to document its veracity, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center and the USGS.
CygNet Software, a provider of enterprise operations systems for the oil and gas industry, is partnering with ESRI through the ESRI Developer Program to integrate GIS capabilities and data into CygNet's next-generation supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) offering.
Platte River Associates Inc. (PRA) and Exprodat Consulting Ltd. (Exprodat) have agreed to form a strategic alliance designed to enhance PRA's support for PetroAnalyst, its GIS-based play fairway analysis software.
Marine and hydrographic software developer Caris has appointed Horst Hecht, former head of the German Department of Nautical Hydrography and Vice-President of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany, as a senior scientific advisor.
SimActive has announced the acquisition of its Correlator3D product by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). SimActive's software will be primarily used by DNR for forest inventory from aerial imagery.
Interactive Visualization Systems (IVS) 3D, a vendor of interactive 3D visualization and analysis software for marine information, has joined ESRI's business partner program.
ERDAS has announced that the Public Enterprise Sachsenforst in Saxonia, Germany, has selected ERDAS APOLLO to manage and deliver its vector and raster data to internal and external customers.
