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Geosoft announced the availability of its 2008 software release, which includes Oasis montaj and Target 7.0. This release marks a new generation of Geosoft earth mapping software with ESRI’s ArcEngine technology built-in.

Creaso introduces SARscape 4.0 software for SAR data processing to the Remote Sensing community. By supporting TerraSAR-X-1 and simulated Radarsat-2 data as well as through the release of the Persistent Scatterers module and the continuous improvement of existing algorithms, the team around SARscape makes its promise come true to offer a future oriented and advanced technology to the worldwide SAR market.

Caliper Corporation is now shipping the latest version of Maptitude. Maptitude is used to display and analyze location-based information and has applications in sectors including sales and marketing, banking and financial services, real estate and appraisal, community development, insurance, emergency services, and public health. Maptitude is a geographic information system (GIS) for all types of spatial data.

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that Merrick Advanced Photogrammetry of the Americas S. de R.L. de C.V. (MAPA) is now the master distributor of Leica Geosystems solutions to customers in Mexico. Based in Guadalajara and Mexico City, Mexico, MAPA is a leading provider of photogrammetry, LIDAR, satellite imagery and mapping products and services.

The merger of all YMS and GCWare branches under the transnational YMS Group’s single roof signals a new direction in the IT market for special solutions using geographical information. Current operations in Dubai, London, Germany and China as well as comprehensive development firms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia have already been working and will be under the common YMS Group flag.

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS Observations & Measurements (O&M) Encoding Standard.

Although useful for many applications from real estate to local politics neighbourhood boundaries have been unavailable for use in GIS mapping software until now. Spatial Insights is offers Maponics Neighbourhoods: hand-drawn and validated GIS polygons covering hundreds of US cities.

LizardTech, a division of Celartem, and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced the launch of GeoExpress 7, the premier application for compressing and manipulating complex geospatial imagery. Equipped with new features, this latest version enables all of the LizardTech Express Suite applications to interoperate with one another.

The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) announced that a lineup of 13 seminars is being held at the Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference and two more are slated for the Geospatial Dimensions of Emergency Response Symposium. The combined events will take place March 9-12, 2008, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Wash.