Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Redlands GIS Week is being held at Esri’s state-of-the-art headquarters in Redlands, California. The week is dedicated to debating the present and future of creating, integrating, and extracting value from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Participants will connect with their peers and exchange ideas on advancing geospatial decision making, problem solving, and innovative solutions across industries.
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
The RS Suite of remotely sensed ground control points (RSGCP) from CompassData will allow for the collection of ground control points in areas of the world that were previously difficult, if not impossible, to map due to access or geopolitical influences. The RS Suite empowered by TerraSAR-X technology from Infoterra GmbH, makes mapping points in
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Garmin International Inc. today announced the creation of OpenCaching.com, a completely free online community for creating, sharing and finding geocaches around the world. An exciting and engaging outdoor activity, geocaching combines exploration, education, entertainment and recreation. At OpenCaching.com, everyone can enjoy all of the caches and helpful information – the tips, descriptions, previous attempts, mass
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
HELCOM – The facilitation of activities to re-create a healthy Baltic marine environment by 2021 within the framework of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan will be the topmost issue on the agenda. “The Delegations will discuss the implementation status of the HELCOM action plan and how to accelerate this through the identification of good examples
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
BUSINESS RECORDER – Pakistan is confronting daunting challenges of land degradation and desertification, especially in dry-land ecosystems, as it makes impossible to adopt cost-effective land degradation assessment. This was stated by Additional Secretary Environment Kamran Ali Qureshi while addressing the inaugural session of two-day national workshop “Role of Spatial Technology” Geographical Information System & Remote Sensing
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
IC RUSSIA – Modern satellites are complex and expensive systems, which are often extremely sensitive to the environment. Apparently, their lifetime in space will increase significantly, if these satellites are switched off during strong solar disturbances, which can be predicted and detected. Another application for above mentioned information is forecasting of radiation and ion conditions for planning
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Improvements in address data quality are likely to be recorded in the public sector as a result of the launch of the National Address Gazetteer Database (NAGD). The intention of the database is to provide “one definitive source of accurate publicly-owned spatial address data”, with the information being collected and collated from local authorities and
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Steering Committee recently approved the GDI object catalog Flanders xGRAB well as a technical regulation to the CRAB specifications. XGRAB It is a system that will enable municipalities to address from a local file on a regular basis to exchange the AGIV. Municipalities that currently have an address database maintained and not immediately want to make use
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Lands and Survey director and co-workers explained to the panel of the Commission each their respective roles and responsibilities in relation to the allocation of lands. As head of the department, Alieu Jobe gave detailed explanation about the allocation of lands by his department, jointly with the Ministry of Local Government &
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
NORWAY POST – The governments of Sweden and Norway have agreed on a significant expansion of renewable energy projects until 2020. A common market for green certificates is to be in place by 1 January 2012. Read More
