Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Malaysia has adopted a new GIS crime mapping system called “Safe City Monitoring System” as part of the country’s on-going efforts to ensure that crime prevention initiatives under the Government Transformation Program’s National Key Results Area are on track and sustainable. “This clearly shows that we are very serious about ensuring that our cities are safe and free from
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Since its inception Map Middle East has provided an international platform for building networks to enable g-lateral ties in the Middle East region for geo-spatial community. It aims to look into many aspects of geo-spatial technologies by bringing in field experts from across the length and breadth of the region. In the past Map Middle East
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
“Though we are targeting the richness of the With Glasses 3D imaging, our 3DFMax images are designed to mimic the way the eye sees. It is a more ‘real’ natural 3D image which can be enjoyed as effortlessly as conventional television without any eyestrain, viewing restrictions or unacceptable side effects. With the 3DFMax 3DTV technology,
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Geospatial Holdings, Inc. (Geospatial) and Reduct NV (Reduct) have formed a strategic alliance to expedite the deployment of Reduct’s DuctRunner/Smart Probe Pipeline Mapping Technologies and Geospatial’s GeoUnderground™ Web-based GIS Portal into the global marketplace. Highlights of the alliance include :
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Two new environmental projects to preserve biodiversity and provide a solution to bi-national management of the Artibonite basin, for $20 million over 4 years, have just been launched. “Today in Haiti, population explosion and increased human pressure on the country’s natural resources is degrading the environment,” said Jean-Marie Claude Germain, Minister of the Environment. “To cope
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Sustainable Events managing director Fiona Pelham, who is chair of the ISO technical committee that develops ISO 20121, said: “Everyone is encouraged to engage with their national standards body or one of the liaison bodies and share their feedback. The international working group has delivered an outstanding draft international standard and now is an opportunity
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Septentrio’s AsteRx3 receivers are successfully tracking the GLONASS CDMA L3 signal transmitted by the first GLONASS-K1 satellite. This satellite was launched on February 26. It carries a payload capable of transmitting a CDMA signal in the L3 band, with a center frequency of 1202.025 MHz, in addition to the standard L1/L2 GLONASS FDMA signals. It is
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Sweden’s Swepos became the first foreign company to use Russia’s GLONASS positioning technology, due to Swepos’ conviction that it is better than GPS at northern latitudes, reported Reuters. Swepos is Sweden’s national network of permanent satellite reference stations. Its purpose is to provide satellite data for a range of applications, from real-time positioning that is accurate
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Vegetation mapping and monitoring provides critical information used to make informed, accurate decisions in a myriad of applications. ENVI offers a number of advanced tools to extract vegetation information from imagery so that you can address problems that traditionally required more expensive, time-consuming visits to the field. See the recorded Webinar:Using ENVI for Image Analysis of
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
An unparalleled collection of high-resolution satellite imagery covering sub-Saharan Africa in a single season is now available in the DMCii image archive, providing an invaluable snapshot of more than 40 countries, including Cameroon, Congo, and Ethiopia for assessing phenomena such as deforestation, urbanisation and desertification. Sub-Saharan Africa is a vast and diverse landscape with climatic
