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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:41:48 -0500
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Subject: SpatialNews Daily NewsWire (06/20/03) - Celartem Acquires
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 1. Breaking News & PR - CELARTEM TECHNOLOGY USA, Inc. acquires
    LizardTech!
 2. Classifieds 1 or 5 day!
 3. Useful Site of the day - Massey University Image WebServer
 4. Toolbox - Genuine Fractals
 5. Careers & RFPs - 3-D IMAGING SENSORS RFP
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 7. Suggested Reading - Using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
 8. Featured Data - Maryland DOQQ
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Business News... CELARTEM TECHNOLOGY USA, Inc. acquires LizardTech, Inc -
Celartem Technology USA, Inc. is wholly owned by Japan's Celartem
Technology, Inc. (Hercules:4330), which provides digital image and secure
content distribution solutions. The addition of LizardTech's core
technology and applications furthers Celartem's vision to consolidate and
develop technology to simplify and enhance the creation, management,
control and distribution of digital content. The acquisition puts
Celartem in a strong position to change the existing definition of
digital content to encompass both images and digital document content.
Details Here

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DeLorme Launches TopoBird; Satellite Camera plus LIDAR - all in an
Airplane
This highly efficient aerial platform delivers the benefits of digital
multi-spectral space imaging technology at ground resolutions and
accuracy typical of traditional aerial mapping

European Space Imaging^Òs IKONOS Ground Station Opening
European Space Imaging^Òs IKONOS Ground Station Opening at the German
Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich on Friday, 27th
June, 11 am - 1 pm

Autodesk Buzzsaw Webcast - Online project management
You'll hear a firsthand account of how the Buzzsaw Professional online
project management and collaboration service is helping save the
university time and money on a $365 million, 410,000 square-foot hospital
building project

Leica Geosystems announces the introduction of the new TPS400 Series
total stations
easy-to-use instrument for general construction, simple alignments or
complex stake outs, earthmoving, pipe layouts and other civil engineering
tasks

Baltimore Gas & Electric Goes Live with Centricity System from CES
International
A network management software system that allows for rapid response
during power outages and streamlines a number of critical distribution
operations functions

Hispanic Population Reaches All-Time High of 38.8 Million
According to the race and Hispanic-origin estimates, Hispanics accounted
for 3.5 million, or fully one-half, of the population increase of 6.9
million for the nation since April 1, 2000

Microsoft Offers New Programs for Web Development Community
Company Releases an Update to ASP.NET Web Matrix, The ASP.NET Starter
Kits and a New ASP.NET Hosting Program

ESRI Business Information Solutions and Pixxures Announce Agreement
Aerial Imagery Adds New Dimension to Demographic Data and Mapping

Bentley Joins ESRI in AEC-GIS Interoperability Presentation at ESRI
International User Conference
ESRI's David Maguire and Bentley's Styli Camateros will co-present their
companies' shared vision of AEC-GIS Interoperability

MapInfo Identifies Where College Graduates Live and What Jobs Attract
Them
While bachelor degree-holding beach boys and girls of California dominate
the top ten list, renowned ^Ócollege town^Ô Boston, Massachusetts did not
make the cu

Around-the-web - Trimble today announced that it has entered into a
definitive agreement to acquire privately held Applanix Corporation of
Ontario, Canada in a stock transaction valued at CA$25 million
(approximately US$18.6 million). Applanix is a leading developer of
systems that integrate Inertial Navigation System (INS) and Global
Positioning System (GPS) technologies.

DID-U-KNOW... According to the race and Hispanic-origin estimates,
Hispanics accounted for 3.5 million, or fully one-half, of the population
increase of 6.9 million for the nation since April 1, 2000 (Source: US
Census Bureau)

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GEOCOMMUNITY CONFERENCES & EVENTS
Presentation of the PS Technique: the new tool for ground deformation
monitoring
T.R.E. presents the potential of the PS technique, a new remote sensing
technology that allows the identification of single radar benchmarks, the
Permanent Scatterers, where very precise displacement measurements can be
carried out. The new technique overcomes most of the limits of
conventional approches to surface deformation monitoring.
July 10, 2003, Italian Institute of Culture, 425 Washington Street, San
Francisco, California

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Symposium taking place on June 25-26 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in
North Carolina. The event will include the launch of GenaWare's exciting
new suite of tools, Ware2. We will be offering free sessions showcasing
our Web-based and desktop applications, technical workshops, and client
and partner presentations of real world applications of GenaWare tools.
Details Here - Be sure to visit the SpatialNews 2003 ESRI UC HomePage

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GEOCOMMUNITY USEFUL SITE OF THE DAY

[useful.gif] Massey University Image WebServer - This interactive mapper
shows the soils of the Massey Campus and surrounding farms. The soils are
presented in the map on the right. This map can be manipulated and soil
profiles viewed using the buttons.

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GEOCOMMUNITY CAREER CENTER

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    data, and mapping in application to a variety of planning,
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 *  Demographic/Mapping Analyst - Newspaper Services of America is the
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 *  GIS Support Analyst, UK - This role is based in London with a salary
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