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Aeroquest International provides geophysical surveying platforms for the mineral and petroleum exploration, and environmental services industries. Optimal Geomatics specializes in the science and technology of gathering, analyzing, interpreting,
distributing, and using geographic information.
- press release (note: PR can’t be distributed in the U.S.; interesting)
The company’s Teradata 13 data warehousing system is now shipping and one of the most touting feature of nearly 100 improvements relates to in-system geoprocessing. Teradata first introduced geospatial support in version 12, last September. (APB coverage)
I understand the 20x faster to be 20x faster than in another non-parallel system, not 20x faster than v12.
- ITWire
This is not an area I follow, but Matt McGee at Search Engine Land dug into the possibilities. Among the questions: will/should Yahoo drop its own maps for Bing Maps?
Brewer-based Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health and James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town are tackling the question of why the state’s cancer rates are higher than the U.S. average and if the causes are more environmental or genetic. The “BioGeoBank of Maine” project includes a tissue bank (sample’s of human tissue from around the state) and mapping of many toxins. Once built the project will offer a “limited-access computer gateway, researchers will be able to explore correlation between disease and the environment at a given moment in time and over a span of years, adding and subtracting layers of information to refine and expand the associations.”
This is one of the first, if not the first, GIS contract I’ve heard of resulting from the stimulus. Applied Data Consultants of Eau Claire WI will perform two projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: creating a GIS for parcels owned by the Omaha District COE near Glasgow, Montana and building a Web portal for the district’s Natural Resource Division.
