Friday, September 30th, 2011
2011 Global Partner Conference of GeoEye company – the Operator of highly detailed RS satellites – was held in San-Francisco (California, USA). It was attended by representatives of RapidEye (Germany), Japan Space Imaging (Japan), ESRI (USA), ERDAS (USA), ScanEx RDC (Russia), Gesecology (Chile), etc. At the end of the conference GeoEye representatives handed in memorial
Friday, September 30th, 2011
PEFC International is pleased to invite all interested parties to provide feedback on an appendix to its global sustainable forest management standard by 27 November 2011. This appendix defines requirements and interpretations for the sustainable management of tropical natural forest.
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Many people have talked about a gap between surveying technology and geographic information system (GIS) technology over the years. Recent reports of precision farming uptake indicate lower than expected results – all at a time when commodity prices are high and food production is high on the agenda. What are the reasons for these lower uptake
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Urban design is increasingly adopting the idea of food production within city spaces. Carrot City looks at how we imagine a city will look if agricultural production rises. New knowledge networks, changes in urban home and building design, vertical agriculture and the various components for growing food are all included. As changing climate, population increase
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The Swedish national mapping agency Lantmäteriet has signed an agreement with AeroGRID Limited for data distribution including aerial imagery of the whole of Sweden (450,000km²). Clients can purchase the data both on and offline. AeroGRID can now offer complete aerial survey coverage of Scandinavia and much of Western Europe.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
LightSquared, a company struggling in a political battle to build a nationwide wireless broadband network using GPS frequencies, said it has signed an agreement with Javad GNSS to develop a system that will eliminate all interference issues for high-precision GPS devices. The company said the Javad GNSS system could be adapted to work with high-precision GPS
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The International Arctic Forum which finished in Arkhangelsk last Friday did not bring big sensations. The main points of the ambitious Russian Arctic program were rather well-known long time before. Construction of new ice-breaking fleet secured by 20 billion rubles of state funding during the nearest 3 years; launch of powerful space satellite systems for Arctic
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Formally announced by the Ordnance Survey at the AGI Conference on 22nd September, AddressBase is the name given to the publicly available products formed from the merging oflocal government’s National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), Address Layer 2 from the Ordnance Survey and the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF).
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Spectra Precision introduced today several additions to itsbgrowing portfolio of solutions focused on mainstream surveying and construction needs. The announcement was made today at its Worldwide Distribution Conference held in Nuremburg, Germany. The expanded product portfolio will be showcased at INTERGEO 2011, the world’s largestconference on geodesy, geoinformatics and land management. Spectra Precision ProMark 800 GNSS Receiver Spectra Precision,
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Spectracom, a company of the Orolia Group introduced new capabilities for its GSG line of GPS / GNSS constellation simulators. These features reinforce Spectracom’s leadership position for flexible, user-friendly and affordable characterization and test of GPS and GNSS devices and systems. Key features include :
