Friday, June 18th, 2010
Photogrammetric mosaics and other imagery processed by USGS have also been provided to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for incorporation into Department of Defense image libraries and are being used for economic analysis projects by theUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID)for construction and development projects and to the government of Afghanistan for a myriad of uses
Friday, June 18th, 2010
PUBLIC PROPERTY UK – As expected, the Government has announced that regional spatial strategies (RSSs) are to go. A huge amount of work went into the production of RSSs, and they were founded on a substantial evidence base. Before we consign them to the dustbin it would make sense to learn some of the lessons
Friday, June 18th, 2010
The high salinity of the Colorado River, which causes more than $300 million in damages per year according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was the focus of Tanya Petach’s winning entry into the 2010 Thacher Environmental Research Contest. The contest, an activity of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), awards cash prizes to
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Exprodat Consulting, specialists in implementing GIS technology within the oil and gas industry, has entered into a partnership with Malaysian-based Alliance Geotechnical Services (AGS) to support this expanding and developing industry. AGS will work with Exprodat Consulting to promote, market and sell their innovative and established suite of GIS-based exploration and production (E&P) Team-GIS™ software,
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Global architectural design firm HOK has joined a delegation of other pioneering green technology firms traveling to Shanghai, China, to commemorate “San Francisco Week” at World Expo 2010 Shanghai. The June 17-25 event recognizes the historic sister city relationship established in 1980. San Francisco is the only U.S. city exhibiting at the World Expo, and
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
CARTECH – As if handwriting recognition and audio by Bang & Olufsen weren’t enough to make us drool over the upcoming 2011 Audi A8, the company showed off Google Earth integration with the navigation system. Previewed at this year’s CES, the completed system won the award for Best Embedded Telematics Navigation Product at the 2010
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Through the work of our procurement officers located in Africa we have acquired the new 1:50,000 scale topographic map series of Botswana. This map series is published by the Department of Surveys and Mapping (DSM). This map series has a new grid index compared to the previous series and is about two-thirds complete of full
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
EVC is proud to announce that we can supply LiDAR data covering Bogota, Colombia. The data is made available through our business relationship with a private geospatial firm based in Bogota. The area of coverage is 550km2 with a 23cm vertical accuracy. This type of data set is extremely detailed and would be very useful for those looking
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
The ILMF team are delighted to announce the dates for ILMF 2011. It will be held from February 7 – 9, 2011 at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, Louisiana. The eleventh in the series that has long established itself as the premier LiDAR event attracting professionals from around the world with one focused
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Reference systems and frames are of primary importance for many Earth science applications, satellite navigation as well as for practical applications in geo-information. A precisely defined reference frame is needed for the quantification of, e.g. Earth rotation and its gravity field, global and regional sea level variation, tectonic motion and deformation, post-glacial rebound, geocenter motion,
