Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Avineon, Inc. has been awarded 2010’s Geospatial Technology Innovation for 3D Modeling by the Geospatial World Forum. This award recognizes Avineon’s breakthrough efforts in developing 3D tracing software. Avineon was selected for this award by an international panel of geospatial experts out of 173 submissions in various GIS related categories.Bringing the best in the geospatial
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Russia will launch two extra navigation satellites, after three crashed, to provide extra insurance for the success of its bid to create a rival to the U.S. system, a news agency reported on Wednesday. The GLONASS satellites that plunged into the Pacific Ocean in December were the final three of 24 Russia had needed to
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Canada’s minister of National Revenue, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Atlantic Gateway says he’s impressed with the work being done by a high-tech firm based in the capital. Fredericton MP Keith Ashfield toured local software giant Caris on Tuesday in what was described as an information exchange visit. “They are a world-class company, and I
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Councillors voted unanimously to hold off from approving the region’s growth strategy, set to replace Metro Vancouver’s existing Livable Region Strategic Plan. The 30-year strategy seeks to promote compact, sustainable and prosperous urban areas in the Metro region. In West Vancouver, the new plan identifies an “urban containment boundary” that runs through the district’s Upper Lands
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
“The main problem that we face is a lack of skills among traditionally experienced practitioners who do not have the knowledge and understanding about carbon counting with which we are equipping our new graduates and whose established thinking and methods limit the effectiveness of those new graduates whose work they manage and direct in daily
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
International Land Systems (ILS), Inc. recently participated in the recording of two television programs designed to educate the Ghanaian public on land administration and procedures for formalizing land rights. The programs also sought to make citizens aware of interventions in the land sector undertaken by the Millennium Development Authority (MIDA) which is funded by the
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
The beautiful world cultural heritage city of Salzburg is the setting for the Geoinformatics Forum (GI_Forum) symposium to be held from July 5-8, 2011 at the University of Salzburg Austria, organised by the Centre of Geoinformatics in cooperation with the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German University of Technology. A scientifically challenging programme,
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Thanks to the great variety of submitted papers, the scientific committee of the 25th International Cartographic Conference is building a programme covering all the facets of the field and highlighting its most innovative and pratical aspects as well as the most theoretical!
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
The system for submision of papers and posters is now available to authors. This is the sole means of submitting for UGI 2011 and it also provides all information needed for participating. Abstracts should be entered into this system, for assessment by the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC) of LOC UGI 2011. Go to www.ugi2011.cl to submit your abstracts early.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, and Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Executive Board, shared personal reflections, perspectives on international collaboration and a look at the challenges that lie ahead in space exploration in a ‘Masters with Masters’ event at NASA Headquarters. Read More
