The U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (Army TEC) has awarded a contract extension to Flight Landata Inc. of North Andover, Mass., for the continuation of aerial imaging services in Afghanistan.
NASA's Phoenix Mars lander arrived on the Red Planet on May 25 after a journey of 10 months; the first Optech LIDAR results from Mars arrived late in the evening of May 28.
LizardTech has announced the release of its GeoExpress 7 SDK, a free toolkit for decoding and viewing MrSID and JPEG 2000 images in third-party applications.
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging has released a free low-resolution version of the ERDAS Field Guide, downloadable from the company's Web site. This tool has been used as a textbook, lab manual and training guide for ERDAS IMAGINE since 1990.
