May
8 news
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Around Italy with the Cart@net TourAfter the first appointment in Milan, the Cart@net Official Tour will take place in three other Italian cities: Rome ( May 23), Naples (June 11), Palermo (June 19). Cart@net is the tool produced by Planetek Italia to distribute both raster and vector cartography. It provides an unprecedent "dual map" window, that allows to place side by side or overlap two different views, of the same area or two contigous areas, allowing multitemporal and multisource analysis. Another important feature that makes Cart@net unique is the possibility to access to large dataset (orthophotos, satellite images and raster cartography) independently from the file size. This way, it`s possible to serve images large also hundred of Gigabytes via the internet. Cart@net allows the access to the clients via both the common browser and GIS, CAD and Office products; it`s based on Image Web Server and it`s strictly integrated with ArcIMS, MapGuide and many other servers available on the market.
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Athens: the first town "captured" by SPOT 5
The new Spot 5 Earth observation satellite is already in orbit, and has collected the first image over the city of Athens (Greece). The satellite, launched on 4 May 2002 from the Guiana Space Centre, provides 5-metre and 2.5-metre resolution images, that combined with a wide imaging swath (covering 60 km x 60 km) is a key asset for various applications such as mapping, surveillance, urban and peri-urban planning, natural disaster management etc. Another key feature of Spot 5`s is the acquisition capability of its HRS stereoviewing instrument, which covers vast areas in a single pass.
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AIPAS: May 30th the national meeting
It will take place the next 30th May the annual conference of the AIPAS, the Association of the Small and Medium Italian Aerospace Enterprises. The appointment is at 10.00 in Rome (ACER center, Via di Villa Patrizi, 13). The morning session will see contribution by the main SME working on Areospatial programs. Among the others prof. De Julio of the Italian Space Agency, and representatives from the USA, French and German embassy, from the British consulate and from the European Space Agency.
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A second date for the GIS & Remote Sensing CourseIt`s still possible to register for the seventh edition of GIS and Remote Sensing course, organized by Planetek Italia, that will take place in Bari from the 27th to the 31th May 2002. Because of the number of registrations received, in fact, Planetek Italia is going to organize a second issue of the course for all the people interested. The course, in italian language, will last five days, and will provide theoretical sessions and practices.
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New ECW plugin for ArcGIS adds URL image accessThe latest release of the free ECW plugin for ArcGIS 8.1, 8.1.2 and 8.2. improves the
displayprocess speed of imagery. ECW is now easily the fastest and most efficient format for compressed large imagery in the ArcGIS Desktop environment. The plugin also offers the ability to add remote ECW imagery to your project served by the Image Web Server. This functionality is a key feature of the ArcView 3.x plug-in, and is now available in ArcGIS environment. It also includes the 500MB (not 50MB) ECW compressor utility for free.
A new free ECW plugin for ERDAS Imagine 8.5 has also been released: it offers the
support for the ECW format and for adding remote ECW (using URL file). Finally Intergraph has announced that its newest GeoMedia(r) products, version 5.0 supports the ECW (ER Mapper Compressed Image) format.