The U.S. Department of the Interior is coordinating a federal initiative to streamline U.S. government purchases of geospatial technology under a multi-vendor umbrella program dubbed the Geospatial Line of Business.

ERDAS has announced ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2, the next release of the company's solution for visualizing, enhancing, and combining images. ERDAS ER Mapper provides image processing and compression capabilities used in such industries as oil, gas, and mineral exploration.

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has embarked on a major Washington, D.C.-area recruiting initiative to bring in both entry and higher-level analysts and scientists, as well as numerous other support specialists to the agency.

Following its successful September 6th launch, GeoEye has released an initial image taken by its GeoEye-1 satellite of Kutztown University, located between Reading and Allentown, Penn.

ERDAS has released APOLLO 2009, its suite of enterprise GIS software that includes APOLLO Server, APOLLO Image Manager, and APOLLO Solution Toolkit.

ERDAS has rolled out LPS 9.3, an update to its software formerly known as Leica Photogrammetry Suite, which transforms raw imagery into geospatial data, according to the company.

Tiltan Systems Engineering has released TLiD-R2, the second generation of its automatic LiDAR data processing product.

European aerial imagery alliance AeroGRID has added two more core partners, Colorado-based i-cubed Inc. and Denmark's Scankort a.s.

Aéro Photo Europe Investigation (A.P.E.I.), reportedly the largest and oldest private aerial survey company in France, has acquired a complete Intergraph Z/I Imaging digital mapping camera (DMC) airborne and ground processing system. This implementation marks the first DMC system to be used in France.