2010

June 3 - the PYXIS innovation is pleased to announce that the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency through Harris Corporation has agreed to license PYXIS GeoWeb Technology to support their Online Geospatial-Intelligence efforts. PYXIS technologies uniquely enable fast geodata integration, the main bottleneck in the evidence based decision making cycle of GeoInt2.

April 8 - WorldView GeoWeb Browser™ Beta 2.3 is now released with a new persistent vector generation engine, navigation control widgets, improved real-time navigation and icon rendering. THe new release also provides easy access to high fidelity LiDAR with 4 expanded terrain data formats and on-the-fly slope analysis processes.

March 31 - the PYXIS innovation will be presenting "The GeoWeb Unleashed on an Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Network" at GeoWeb 2010: Going Real Time - July 26-30 at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

March 27 - PYXIS GeoWeb StreamServer™ Beta 1.0 is now available. The StreamServer is a powerful new enterprise class geospatial data server. To join our GeoWeb StreamServer Beta evaluation team please contact our Sales Group.

February 1 - WorldView GeoWeb Browser™ Beta 2.2 is now released which includes advanced support for OleDB Excel 2007 drag and drop functionality.

January 15 - the PYXIS innovation is pleased to announce the release of Beta 2.1 of WorldView GeoWeb Browser™. This release provides a general performance upgrade with improved user interaction and new processing speed, boasting 4 times faster than the previous release.

January 12 - the PYXIS innovation is pleased to announce it has reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Adamlabs. The MOU provides for a formal agreement to build, license and market an Integrated Resource Management System using PYXIS technologies targeted at emerging opportunities within the changing environmental regulations of the Alberta Energy Resource Sector.

2009

October 30 - WorldView GeoWeb Browser™ Beta 2.0 is now released featuring read and publication from Oracle Spatial Database 11G.

the PYXIS innovation will be presenting "Grand Challenge of Geospatial Integration using the Digital Earth Reference Model" at GeoWeb 2009 in Vancouver, July 27 to 31.

Industry Canada will contribute funds necessary to advance the Geometric Feature capabilities of WorldView, a significant requirement of the Alberta GeoWeb and Integrated Resource Management (IRM) Pilot Project.

The International Journal of Digital Earth published a paper in their March edition by A. Vince and X. Zheng on Arithmetic and Fourier transforms for the PXYIS multi-resolution digital Earth model. The paper shows a recursive definition of the PYXIS grid, a systematic approach to the labeling, an algorithm to add PYXIS labels, and a discussion of the discrete Fourier transform on PYXIS grids.

2008

PYXIS to present "Integration is not a GeoPortal" - a discussion about the value of integrating geodata on a Digital Earth Reference Model at the 2008 GeoAlberta Conference, November 17 to 19 at the Shaw Conference Centre Edmonton.

September 19 - In preparation for the imminent official worldwide release of its WorldView GeoWeb Browser™, the PYXIS innovation announces a limited Beta release of WorldView. To mark the event, and to provide an update to interested clients and investors, the PYXIS innovation also publishes the inaugural issue of its newsletter: Turning Our View Inside Out.

The PYXIS innovation begins its GeoWeb products launch with a presentation at the Calgary Petroleum Club, June 24, 2008. Read the official news release.

Geographic Enterprises, Kent Hargeheimer and Craig Johnson, discuss the GeoWeb and the PYXIS Digital Earth Reference Model at Where 2.0 in Burlingame, California May 12, 13 and 14

The Canadian Circumpolar Institute and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) take delivery of a new WorldView data publishing mechanism for Arctic environmental research. The application was generously supported through Canada's GeoConnections.

We congratulate Renee Sieber Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at McGill University for her recently awarded GEOIDE Grant that features the PYXIS DERM and WorldView as a medium for disseminating information on the GeoWeb in support of evidence based decision making.

Craig Johnson senior partner at Geographic Enterprises spoke to an enthusiastic audience about the opportunities for analysis on the PYXIS DERM at the annual STI: Population Statistics Research Conference in Austin on March 5-7th.

earthsense, an applied target marketing company supplying integrated intelligence for organizations focused on best-of-breed sustainability practices, selects the PYXIS DERM as the framework for its data products

2007

PYXIS presents at Defence Security Innovation on November 15th, 2007.

PYXIS offers Integrated Geospatial Intelligence On-Demand for GeoInt 2.0.

PYXIS attends the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation 2007 Symposium, Oct. 21-24, 2007 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

PYXIS in Belle Horizonte, Brazil, supporting Unimontes scientists successful presentation to the R&D foundation FAPEMIG, June 12, 2007. The proposal is for multiple year investigations of tropical dry forests in Minas Gerais at the State Parks of Serra do Cipo and Matas Secas. The PYXIS innovation supports sociologists, ecologists, biologists and remote sensing scientists in their research to understand and preserve these delicate ecosystems. The work is a part of Tropi-Dry, a large multinational program lead by Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, Director of the Centre of Earth Observation Sciences at University of Alberta, and includes participation from United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Venezuela, Panama and Brazil.

PYXIS presents "the Geospatial Web" at CANARIE's Network-Enabled Platforms Workshop: "Convergence of Cyber-Infrastructure and the Next-Generation Internet" June 26-27, 2007 - Ottawa, Ontario.

PYXIS presents at the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth on UC Berkeley campus, 5-9 June 2007.

PYXIS attends the Where 2.0 Conference , May 29-30, 2007.

Inter-American-Institute for Global Change Research presents the PYXIS Digital Earth Reference Model at the CODATA Conference on Open Access to Scientific Information in Latin America, Atibaia, Brazil, May 8-10 2007.

Meta Command Systems Inc. presents cyber-physical model featuring the PYXIS DERM at the Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems Workshop at UCSB, April 14-16 2007.

before 2006

the PYXIS innovation presents at the 13th meeting of the GBIF Governing Board in Iquitos, Peru, October 2nd to 4th, 2006.

the PYXIS innovation speaks to the prestigious TTI Vanguard alumni- Time, Place & Space in Memphis, Tennessee, Sept. 19-20, 2006.

the PYXIS innovation attends the Digital Earth '06 Summit on Sustainability in Auckland, NZ, August 27th to 30th,2006.

the PYXIS innovation demonstrates software to support evidence based decision-making in a simulated disaster environment at Strong Angel III, hosted by San Diego State University, August 21st - 25th, 2006. (more...)

The PYXIS innovation presents at the Stewardship 2006 Conference on Economics and Sustinability in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland July 5-8, 2006.

The PYXIS innovation presents at the 2006 Society for Conservation GIS and Society for Conservation Biology Integrated Conference, June 24-28, 2006, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

the PYXIS innovation hosts lunch and presents at the Defense Network Centric Operations (DNCO) on June 12-14, 2006, Arlington, VA.

The PYXIS innovation presented at the Bi-Annual International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) Members Meetings in London, UK on May 4 - 5 May, 2006 to discuss the value and need for data sharing and demonstrate geospatial integration platform for Conservation Commons.

the PYXIS innovation attends Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8) in Curitiba, Brasil, 13 to 17 March 2006 addressing challenges of integrating biodiversity and geospatial data with Conservation Commons with IUCN Canada.

The PYXIS innovation presents at the Technologies for Conservation and Development (t4cd) conference & workshop entitled "Conservation & Appropriate Technology" on the 24 & 25 January, 2006 at the Microsoft Research Centre, Cambridge, UK.

the PYXIS innovation attends the second biannual Defence and Security Innovation 2005 in Quebec City, November 16, 17 2005.

the PYXIS innovation participates in key strategy and policy discussions with Conservation Commons at IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland Nov 8, 9, 10, 2005.

the PYXIS innovation participates in Stalwart Guard ISTAR05 at CFB Petawawa August 2005 demonstrating the power of integrating imagery and maps on demand.

the PYXIS innovation attends Defence Innovation 2003 October 15-17, at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City.