The Awards ceremony recognizes the best ones in geospatial industry. The community may now set the winners

The Second Stage of MundoGEO#Connect Awards 2014 came to an end and the finalists in each category were unveiled. The geospatial community may now choose who should win. The awards ceremony will be held on May 8, the second day of MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2014, that will take place at the Frei Caneca Convention Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

With open online voting, MundoGEO#Connect Awards are held since 2011, recognizing people, institutions, companies, brands, equipments and systems that contributed to the development of the geospatial industry. The entire process is based on the community voting, from the categories appointment to the winners choice.

Get to know the winners choice stages:

• First stage (held in November) The geospatial community chose, through an online survey, the categories for the 2014 awards
• Second stage (from December 1 thru February 14) Online poll in which the community may choose who should be the finalists (Top 5) for each category
• Third and final stage (from February 17 thru April 18) The geospatial community will choose the winners for each category from a list of the five most voted in the previous stage

“It’s important to have in mind that 100% of the voting is online and made by the geospatial community, from the choice of categories to the five finalists and the winners,” said Emerson Granemann, director and publisher of MundoGEO, organizer of MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica Conference and Trade Fair.

Get to know the finalists in each category of MundoGEO#Connect Awards 2014 and vote for the best:

Most Prominent Public Institution
Diretoria do Serviço Geográfico do Exército (DSG)
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)
Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (Incra)
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe)
Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA)

Most Prominent Education and Research Institution
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)

Best Course – Land Surveying and/or Cartographic Engineering
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Universidade Estadual Paulista – Presidente Prudente (Unesp)
Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)

Best Course – Geography
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
Universidade Estadual Paulista – Rio Claro (Unesp)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Most Active Professional Association
Associação Profissional de Geógrafos no Estado de São Paulo (Aprogeo-SP)
Associação Brasileira de Engenheiros Cartógrafos – Regional São Paulo (Abec-SP)
Associação Brasileira de Engenheiros Cartógrafos – Regional Paraná (Abec-PR)
Associação Profissional dos Engenheiros Agrimensores no Estado de São Paulo (Apeaesp)
Federação Nacional dos Engenheiros Agrimensores (Fenea)

Most Memorable Company: Solutions Development
Geoambiente
Imagem
Notoriun Tecnologia
Santiago & Cintra Consultoria
Sisgraph

Most Memorable Company: Mapping
Base
Engefoto
Engemap
Esteio
Topocart

Most Memorable Company: Satellite Images
Digibase
Engesat
Geoambiente
Santiago & Cintra Consultoria
Satmap

Most Memorable Company: GIS Software
Geoambiente
Geograph
Imagem
Santiago & Cintra Consultoria
Sisgraph

Most Memorable Company: Image Processing Software
Imagem
Santiago & Cintra Consultoria
Sisgraph
Sulsoft
Threetek

Most Memorable Company: Geodesy and Topography Equipments
Alezi Teodolini
CPE Tecnologia
Furtado, Schmidt
Leica Geosystems
Santiago & Cintra Geotecnologia

Best Company to Work For
CPE Tecnologia
Engemap
Geoambiente
Santiago & Cintra Geotecnologia
Topocart

Best Junior Company
EJECart – Empresa Júnior de Engenharia Cartográfica da Unesp Presidente Prudente
Ejeag – Empresa Junior de Engenharia de Agrimensura da UFV
Geoplan Jr – Empresa Júnior de Geografia da Unesp Rio Claro
Labgis Jr – Empresa Júnior de Geotecnologias da UERJ
Mensurar – Associação Júnior de Engenharia de Agrimensura e Cartográfica da UFRRJ

Best Marketing Professional
Felipe Seabra (Geoambiente)
Fernanda Ribeiro (CPE Tecnologia)
Fernando Schmiegelow (Hexagon)
Kleber Bartolomeu (Furtado, Schmidt)
Marcel Rodrigues (Alezi Teodolini)

Most Memorable Brand: Total Station
Geodetic
Leica
Nikon
Ruide
Topcon

Most Memorable Brand: GNSS Receivers
Ashtech
Javad
Leica
Topcon
Trimble

Most Memorable Brand: Terrestrial Laser Scanner
Faro
Leica
Riegl
Topcon
Trimble

Most Memorable Brand: Topographic Software
Datageosis
GeoOffice
Posição
TopoEVN
topoGRAPH

Most Memorable Brand: UAV
AGX
Gatewing (Trimble)
Sensefly
Smartplanes
Xmobots

Most Memorable Brand: Satellite Images
Astrium (Airbus Defence & Space)
DigitalGlobe
DMC
Eros (Imagesat)
RapidEye (BlackBridge)

Most Memorable Brand: GIS
ArcGIS (Esri)
Geomedia (Hexagon)
Global Mapper (Blue Marble)
Google
Mapinfo (Pitney Bowes)

Most Memorable Brand: Image Processing Software
ArcGIS (Esri)
eCognition (Trimble)
Envi (Exelis)
Erdas (Hexagon)
Pix4D

Best Geospatial Database Provider
Digibase
Google
Here (Nokia)
Imagem
Maplink

Professional of the Year
Antônio Santana Ferraz – UFV
Arthur Caldas – UFBA
Cesar Antonio Francisco – Engemap
Eduardo Oliveira – Santiago & Cintra
Elifas Valim Neto – Metrica
Izabel Cecarelli – Geoambiente
João Francisco Galera Monico – Unesp
Moema José de Carvalho Augusto – IBGE
Rogério Herschel – CPE Tecnologia
Wilson da Silva Junior – Incra

Vote now and choose who should win MundoGEO#Connect Awards 2014! MundoGEO#Connect Awards 2014 is sponsored by Garmin – Global Manufacturer of GPS navigators.

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