RMSI ranked the ‘Best Workplace’ across all industries in India

RMSI has been ranked first in the Top 25 Great Places to Work in India by a study conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, US, along with The Economic Times, a financial daily in India. RMSI provides geospatial services, consulting to application development to spatial analysis and modeling to remote sensing and data conversion. www.rmsi.com

28th Annual ESRI International User Conference explores Geography in Action
This summer, more than 14,000 professionals from more than 120 countries will experience the paramount event of the year for the ESRI software user community, the ESRI International User Conference to be held August 4–8, 2008, at the San Diego Convention Center in California. Regardless of their industry or level of experience with GIS technology, all ESRI GIS users are encouraged to attend this enlightening and inspiring forum designed around the theme GIS: Geography in Action. www.esri.com

Trimble news
Trimble has introduced a software package to continuously monitor and control DGPS broadcast sites for marine navigation – Trimble® Coastal Center™. It provide network operators the ability to monitor and control multiple DGPS beacon stations from one central location, saving time by automating functions and tasks remotely.

Trimble has also introduced the Trimble® NetR3™ GNSS reference sensor. It seamlessly integrate into any Trimble Virtual Reference Station network or other infrastructure application, for tracking and streaming data.

Trimble has also been chosen by Croatian Ministry of Finance to supply 31 Trimble® NetR5™ Reference Stations, 31 Trimble Zephyr Geodetic™ antennas and Trimble VRS™ (Virtual Reference Station) technology to establish a nationwide GNSS infrastructure network. www.trimble.com.

Leica IPAS20 and MobileMatriX v3.0
The new Leica IPAS20 system delivers direct georeferencing for a wide range of airborne sensors such as imaging, LIDAR, SAR, thermal and multispectral systems. It is equipped with GPS/GLONASS technology and a plug and play IMU interface.

Leica Geosystems has also released Leica MobileMatriX v3.0. It offers the ability to synchronize survey data with an enterprise geodatabase, transfer digital images taken from a mobile phone via Bluetooth and link it with a feature. www.leica-geosystems.com

Blue Marble gets Company of the Year award
Blue Marble Geographics were honored with the Governor’s Award for Technology Company of the Year at the TechMaine Technology Awards
Showcase on May 20, 2008. It is for success in creating a financially stable, cutting edge business that supports the people of Maine by providing skilled technology jobs. www.bluemarblegeo.com

CalAmp implements u-blox 5 across MRM products
CalAmp Corp. unveiled a series of mobile resource management products built around u-blox's GPS platform. The u-blox 5 contains a 50-channel GPS receiver and features more than 1 million correlators and separate acquisition and tracking engines, capable of massively parallel searches. It can achieve -160 dBm acquisition and tracking sensitivity. www.u-blox.com

Pendulum rolls out GPS/ GLONAS frequency standard
Sweden's Pendulum Instruments has released GPS and GLONASS controlled frequency standard dubbed GPS-12RG. The reference and calibration instrument is based on this standard, which contains a high-stability rubidium atomic clock; its internal oscillator gives excellent stability of a few parts in 10-12, even in hold over operation when satellite contact is lost. www.pendulum-instruments.com

Spirent improves high dynamics of GSS8000
Spirent Communications has unveiled improvements of Spirent GSS8000 GNSS simulation system supporting up to 20,000 g signal dynamics, up to 120,000 m/s velocity, and 50 Hz processing rates. Motion data can be generated using its on-board vehicle models or using real-time, high-rate host vehicle trajectory data over a remote interface; it supports full 6 degrees-of-freedom trajectory data. www.spirentcom.com