Thursday, November 25th, 2010
The organizers saw SB10 as being about creating a knowledge base for the design and construction of 0-impact buildings and environments. That means 0-impact with respect to water, energy, materials, air and land. The focus of SB10 was on advanced developments and innovations in those fields. Read More
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
GFZ POTSDAM – The geoscientist Hauke Marquardt from the Free University Berlin /GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences received the first prize in the category of natural science and technology and a prize money of € 30 000 for his thesis, with which he could prove that the velocity of the outgoing shear waves from earthquakes
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
The organizations sponsoring OWS-8 seek open standards that address their interoperability requirements. OWS-8 will be organized around the following threads: 1) Observation Fusion — Detection, tracking, and bookmarking of moving objects in video using Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) and other OGC standards; as well as coverage access and processing. 2) Geosynchronization (Gsync) — Distributing bulk
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
As part of our December-January training schedule we have included introductory and intermediate desktop GIS training courses, but also a new INSPIRE/ SDI network services training seminar that deals with discovery, download and transformation services. For more see the Network Services Seminar webpage, and the training schedule.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Farm Market iD, a leading provider of farm-level U.S. agricultural data, announced today it has made available for commercial use previously unavailable information on more than 26,000 agricultural producers in Florida derived from local ownership records, and enhanced by GIS (geospatial information system) data and satellite imagery. Crops included in the data represent 1.7 million planted acres,
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
The OGC GovFuture membership category includes Local Government and Subnational Government membership levels. It offers public sector organizations an opportunity to learn about and benefit from new developments in geospatial technology, and to understand and address legal and policy issues related to these technology developments. GovFuture provides an opportunity for government organizations across the globe
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
European Space Imaging, a leading provider of very high-resolution satellite imagery,and Indra Espacio, a leading company in the Spanish space sector today announced that the two companies successfully completed a multi-year supply project to the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The supply project, with Indra Espacio as main contractor, started in September 2008 and involved the provision
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Infotech Enterprises Limited (IEL), a leading Global Engineering Services Company with headquarters in Hyderabad, India, announced that its existing UTG business is being re-branded as the “Network and Content Engineering” Division within Infotech – “N&CE” for short. Infotech started its GIS service offerings way back in 1992, with the ability to handle large and complex geospatial databases,
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
OpenStreetMap is a global mapping project that is built through the contributions, efforts and experiences of individuals in communities. Frustrated with a myriad of legal complications for using traditional maps, the OpenStreetMap community consists of individual and group efforts that contribute vectors for streets and places, resulting in cartographic products that anyone can use and
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Continuously innovating and improving our map data is a top priority and a massive undertaking at Bing. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new initiative to work with the OpenStreetMap project, a community of more than 320,000 people who have built high quality maps for every country on earth. Microsoft is providing access to
