The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has selected LPS software from ERDAS for creation of photogrammetric products capable of meeting engineering-grade accuracy.
Tensing has announced that N.V. Elmar, sole electric distributor on the island of Aruba, has chosen the Tensing Mobile GIS Track and Trace Module for management of its service fleet.
KORE Telematics, a digital wireless services provider specializing in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, has announced that Navman Wireless North America uses the KORE network for vehicle tracking and fleet management throughout the continent.
To limit the risk of introducing such highly communicable diseases as mad cow and tuberculosis into the U.S. food supply, the state of Kansas has built a spatio-temporal tracking system that traces the movements of cattle as they pass through that state's highly traveled beef-industry crossroads.
If a motorist can drive on it, take direction from it, or crash into it, there's probably a department of transportation that wants to map it. Now, with the help of mobile GIS, many state and local governments are doing just that.
On August 25, 2005, with barely two days' notice, Hurricane Katrina made its first assault on the United States, hitting South Florida as a Category One hurricane. Less than four days later, with 140 mile-per-hour (230 kilometer-per-hour) sustained winds, torrential rains, and a storm surge of 15 to 30 feet (5 to 9 meters), Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast as a strong Category Four hurricane.
