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BUSINESS NEWS G E O W O R L D / J U L Y 2 O O 9 38 BUSINESS NEWS 3-GIS was selected by Greater Sudbury Hydro Inc. to install its Web-based editor, Network Express. AeroGRID will resell DigitalGlobe's high-resolution satellite imagery. Avatech Solutions Inc. was inducted into the Autodesk Platinum Club 2009, which recognizes top software sales and growth in the Americas. Also, the company is sup-porting the Autodesk Assistance Program by offering training to help out-of-work designers, engineers and architects learn new skills and improve employability. Azteca Systems Inc. was selected by the city of Bozeman, Mont., to help more efficiently manage resources, retrieve critical data and virtually eliminate the use of paper work orders. In addition, the city of El Paso, Texas, implemented a GIS-centric pavement-management solution built around ESRI's ArcGIS, Cityworks and MicroPAVER. Blue Sky Network won a contract from Belgian Noordzee Helikopters Vlaanderen to provide its satellite tracking and communication solu-tion aboard work and transport helicopters. Cadcorp announced that Preston City Council selected Cadcorp SIS Spatial Information System desktop and Cadcorp GeognoSIS Web-based software for its new corporate GIS. The Carbon Project won an Information Technology Schedule 70 contract from the U.S. General Services Administration. Dewberry was named ESRI's Part-ner of the Year for the Washington, D.C., region. ERDAS Inc. announced that T-MAPY is now the official ERDAS distributor in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and INTEGRIS LLC is its official distributor in Azerbaijan. In addition, the Public Enterprise Sachsenforst in Saxonia, Germany, selected ERDAS APOLLO to man-age and deliver its vector and raster data to internal and external customers. ESRI installed a GIS kiosk at the new Sam J. Racadio Library and Environmental Learning Center in Highland, Calif.; Interactive Visualiza-tion Systems 3-D joined ESRI's busi-ness-partner program; ESRI provided Truckee Donner Public Utility District with mobile GIS technology through its Small Utility Enterprise License Agreement program; NOAA formally accepted an ESRI-based Nautical Chart System II that improves how the organization produces its national suite of nautical charts; and Green Mountain Power is using ESRI GIS technology to identify areas of the state most suitable for wind and solar power generation. ESRI Canada gave an Award of Excellence to the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; the city of Dryden, Ontario, Canada; and Communauté Métropoltaine de Québec. Geographic Technologies Group was selected for multiple software contracts and services by Bentonville, Ark.; Marietta, Ga.; Wicomico County, Md.; Davie, Fla.; Greenwich, Conn.; Nags Head, N.C.; Calvert County, Md.; Hoover County, Ala.; Titusville, Fla.; and Powhatan County, Va. GeoSpatial Experts was selected by Nikon USA to sell the GPS-enabled COOLPIX P6000 digital camera. Getmapping teamed with New Zealand Aerial Mapping to share resources and equipment to increase flying and aerial-survey capabilities. INRIX was selected by Microsoft Corp. for the voice-activated local search service, Live Search 411. James W. Sewall Co. and Reed & Reed won a contract from First Wind to help deliver a $100-million, 57-megawatt wind farm on Stetson Mountain in Maine. KHEOPS Technologies announced that the city of Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, selected JMap, its online Web-GIS. KOREM acquired Primus Geo-graphics Inc., a U.S. company spe-cializing in location-based software, data and services. Loctronix Corp. announced that the U.S. Patent Office granted it USPN 7,511,662: System and Method for Positioning in Config-ured Environments. 3D Laser Mapping was selected by the University of Ireland to supply its StreetMapper technology.