24
January 2014
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
NEWS
Hexagon AB has acquired Pixis (“PIXIS”: Consultoria,
Soluciones de Ingeniera y Servicios PIXIS Ltda.), the
exclusive distributor of
Intergraph
solutions in Chile
and Peru since 1996. Headquartered in Santiago Chile,
Pixis is a leading provider of engineering software
solutions and services, primarily serving clients in
the metals and mining industry. The Pixis acquisition
advances Hexagon’s expansion into the southern cone
of South America, with a primary focus on Chile and
Peru as the platform for future development. For
information, visit
CONTRACTS
GeoCue
was recently awarded an Ohio State Term
Schedule contract. The Schedule allows Ohio agencies
to directly purchase software and consulting services
from GeoCue via the State Procurement Website.
Software covered in this contract includes GeoCue,
Terrasolid, and LP360. For information, visit www.
geocue.com.
MDA
’s Information Systems Group announced it
has signed a contract with Sky-Shine Corporation of
Malaysia to deliver over 52,000 square kilometers of
digital elevation products using space-based imagery
from RADARSAT-2 acquired during 2013 and 2014.
MDA will deliver the completed digital elevation prod-
ucts for an area in Peninsular Malaysia to Sky-Shine
as part of a project for the Malaysia Remote Sensing
Agency in early 2014. For information, visit www.
mdacorporation.com.
Photo Science, Inc.
a
Quantum Spatial Company
,
was recently awarded a major contract task order
to provide the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) with
high-resolution remote sensing data (airborne topo-
graphic lidar) for areas devastated by record flooding
within the South Platte watershed in Colorado. The
USGS project, co-funded and coordinated with FEMA,
the State of Colorado, and the Denver Regional Council
of Governments, will assist the federal, state, and
local governments with supporting disaster response,
recovery, long term recovery, and other future disaster
loss reduction efforts. Photo Science will collect lidar
of the 5,600 square mile project area. The data, once
delivered, will be shared by USGS with its partners in
a coordinated manner so that planners, scientists, and
engineers can learn about the event to help mitigate
the effect of future weather disasters in this area. For
information, visit
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