Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive establishes the framework for the necessary action by all EU Member States, by 2020 a “good environmental status” in all European seas to reach or maintain. All European coastal countries are obliged to implement this in their respective marine regions through the development and implementation of national strategies. Read More
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
The Saskatchewan Oil and Gas InfoMap website shows oil and gas and related wells, current oil and gas pool boundaries, unit boundaries, and dispositions of Crown petroleum and natural gas rights. The information is presented in an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) format. For a more detailed description of each data set or data layer,
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
President Bernardino Rivadavia on June 26 1826 announced the creation of the Topographic Department. This measure by the government had the power to promote the development of cartography, discipline undeniable gravity in the cultural development, economic and social development. In homage to this historic event the Day of Cartography was established by Decree No. 4229, on September 19, 1958.
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Seventy-five-year-old Verdiana Protas is worried that the 20 cattle she bought with her pension money will soon die because the 10-kilometre-long river in her village in northwest Tanzania has been dry for two years now and finding alternative sources of water is getting more and more difficult. Like the other 200 families in Kagondo neighborhood in
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Trimble introduced today its new high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) compatible correction service. The Trimble CenterPoint correction service can offer 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) repeatable accuracy and will be available initially through Trimble’s Agriculture Division. CenterPoint RTX is a GPS and GLONASS enabled correction service that covers approximately a 1.8 billion acre swath of
Friday, July 1st, 2011
The 1:250 000 scanned geological maps available at the Geoscience Portal have been updated with 70 new scanned maps. They include maps of areas which previously had no coverage as well as some that replace out-of-date editions and some metallogenic maps which contain considerably more recently obtained geological data than previous editions. Areas for which paper maps
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Please join us in San Diego for the ITT Visual Information Solutions Press Conference and Breakfast at the Esri International User Conference 2011. Richard Cooke, President of ITT Visual Information Solutions, and Lawrie Jordan, Director of Imagery Enterprise Solutions for Esri will each make a brief statement and take questions during the event.
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Clients of a leading survey consultancy have been given a direct route into the UK’s widest portfolio of downloadable map data for feasibility and site work. Mapshop, an innovative online shop hosted by the geoportal emapsite, is now also available through the website of the geospatial survey firm Technics Group.
Friday, July 1st, 2011
ScanEx Research & Development Center specialists completed the development of the first version of new software system of automatic Earth remote sensing data processing for MS Windows OS. The system was named SCANEX Automatic Data Processing System (SCANEX ADPS). It enables to process satellite data from input “raw” data stream up to standard Level 1 and 2
Friday, July 1st, 2011
The centre-right government of the new Portuguese Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, has decided to suspend the construction of the Portuguese part of the high-speed rail link between Lisbon and Madrid, which was due to be concluded in 2013, the Portuguese press has reported. Read More
