Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
We are pleasured to announce the creation of a new community within the gvSIG project called gvSIG Campus. This community is a new group of community created by the gvSIG Project and its main aim is to be a meeting point between students and tutors from tertiary training institutions (Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s degrees, Doctorate and
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
The management of access rights to services and data is increasingly becoming a key requirement, both in service-based spatial data infrastructures as well as company-wide enterprise solutions. con terra GmbH has developed sdi.suite securityManager specifically for these tasks. It limits access to authorized users, filters content according to individual access rights and provides extensive functionality
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Alternative routes for international climate policies, such as have been proposed in recent years by several parties, may benefit societal support for these policies. The Netherlands could make clever use of these proposals for its own international climate strategy. Read More
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
AeroGRID has signed a data distribution agreement with swisstopo, the Swiss national mapping agency. Under the agreement AeroGRID will provide access to aerial imagery of the whole of Switzerland via its WMS server. AeroGRID now hosts over 1.5 million square kilometres, of continuous aerial survey coverage on its WMS web server and is working actively
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Professor the Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM (Brasenose), Visiting Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment, will speak as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Architecture at 6pm on Monday 28 November in the Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School, Oxford University. The lecture will consider ‘Heritage and Lessons’.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Blom is announcing the transformation of its aerial surveying services at this year’s ELMF 2011 exhibition in Salzburg; the introduction of dual capture technology to simultaneously capture digital photography and topographical LiDAR data. Read More
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Finally on Nov 24th there will take place the official presentation of Microsoft Bing Maps Aerial Imagery Program for West/Central Europe and embedment into PROGIS technologies, together with an evaluation report on the images done by EC-JRC. Where: Tallinn 23-25 November 2011 at the 17th Conference GEOCAP organized by EC-JRC. Read More
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
As the longest Arctic sailing season ever has come to an end, Russia is about to pass a law that is meant to regulate traffic along the Northern Sea Route. The Russian State Duma has passed a bill on the Northern Sea Route in a first reading. According to the bill, transport operators, including foreign companies,
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
A dry autumn has led to low water levels in Germany’s Rhine River. But the newly exposed banks haven’t just revealed rocks and junk. Passersby in recent days have also found two bombs and a few barrels of smoke-screen chemicals left over from World War II. Read More
Monday, November 21st, 2011
BlomSTREET is a collection of georeferenced, high-resolution, 360 degree panoramic images that are photographed on street-level. The camera equipment used is mounted on the roof of a specially equipped car taking an image every five meters on average in the collection process. The technology comes from the Dutch company Cyclomedia. Blom signed a partnership agreement with
