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BUSINESS NEWS G E O W O R L D / S E P T E M B E R 2 O O 9 30 BUSINESS NEWS Avineon Inc. completed a $5.3 million data conversion project for the Chicago Department of Water Management and opened a new office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Blue Sky Network and Iridium Satellite supplied the Open Passage Expedition with voice communica-tions and GPS mapping technology for its four-month Arctic journey to document how climate change is affecting Arctic communities. The Carbon Project supported the completion of the Aeronautical Infor-mation Management thread of OGC's Web Services Initiative Phase 6. CompassCom Software Corp. implemented a multi-fleet Mobile Resource Management solution for the city of Thornton, Colo. Dewberry was retained by the St. Johns River Water Management District, in association with Merrick & Company, to provide topographic data collection and processing for the Central Florida Coordination Area Surface Elevation Dataset project. DMC International Imaging Ltd. won a contract from the Euro-pean Space Agency to demonstrate its coordinated multi-satellite optical imagery for tropical-forest monitoring in Indonesia. The company also selected five science projects that will receive free satellite imagery from the DMC constellation. Enspiria Solutions was selected by PECO to examine smart-meter technologies. ERDAS Inc. announced that ESG Elektroniksystem-und Logistik-GmbH released a new version of its spe-cialized defense solution for mobile geospatial data provisioning based on ERDAS APOLLO; the government of Azerbaijan selected ERDAS LPS to generate digital orthophotos for the country's Real Estate Registration Project; TECNOGEO S.L. is the offi-cial ERDAS distributor to customers in Spain and Andorra; British Trans-port Police will use ERDAS TITAN 2009 as a command/control solu-tion to share data; TOP GEOCART is the official ERDAS distributor to customers in Romania; and Terralink International Ltd. selected ERDAS APOLLO to manage and deliver vec-tor and raster data. eSpatial announced that EPCOR Utilities Inc. won the Oracle Spa-tial Integrated Enterprise Excellence Award for its enterprisewide solutions. ESRI announced that Central Lin-coln People's Utility District in Lincoln County, Ore., fixes outages with vegetation and outage management based on ESRI's GIS technology, and the Iowa Department of Transporta-tion disseminates geospatial data from Oracle Spatial and other GIS formats using ESRI's ArcGIS Server and its Image extension. Genesys International Corp. Ltd. was added to the Prime Vendor Contract of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service and Office of Global Analysis. GeoDecisions acquired the Rapid Response System from Rapid Noti-fication Technologies LLC. Geographic Technologies Group was selected for multiple software contracts and services, including Griffin, Ga.; Delta County, Colo.; Hagerstown, Md.; Dothan, Ala.; Florissant, Mo.; Virginia Com-monwealth University; Suffolk, Va.; Hillsdale, Mich.; Palm Bay, Fla.; Davie, Fla.; Brentwood, Tenn.; Galt, Calif.; and Bakersfield, Calif. Geospatial Holdings Inc. announced that its Smart Probe/ DuctRunner Pipeline Mapping Technology was used to enable an installation via horizontal directional drilling of several pipeline seg-ments on Dubai's Palm Islands. Infotech Enterprises Ltd. won a contract from inCONTROL Tech to implement an enterprise GIS for Tenaga Nasional Berhad. Intergraph will implement its infrastructure-management tech-nology to geospatially capture and manage assets for Swiss Federal Railways; Veneto, Italy, will use Intergraph technology to create a centralized spatial data infrastructure Spot Infoterra Group partnered with IGN France International to help the Serbian Geodesy Institute become the central supplier of geoinformation data for public and private institutions in Serbia.