Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
Attention, geospatial professionals, are you involved in the energy industry, or provide mapping, engineering, or data solutions to the energy industry? Share your expertise with your colleagues at EnerGIS 2017, to be held June 5-6 in suburban Pittsburgh! This is our 5th annual conference and has become a not-to-miss event. Presentations and papers are welcome
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
Conservation Service (NRCS) in California has concluded an eight-year project creating an inventory of the soil properties and their associated landscapes within the southeastern section of Los Angeles County. The City of Los Angeles, included in this survey, was the largest U.S. city without a completed soil survey. “The process of mapping and cataloging the
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
The World Ocean Council (WOC) CEO, Paul Holthus, engaged with stakeholders from business, government, science, environment and other communities at major Arctic events in Tromso, Norway in late January. At the Arctic Business Council Summit, Holthus outlined the WOC initiative to develop Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets and indicators particularly relevant to Arctic industries. The
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it will attend the 2017 International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) on Feb 13-15 in Denver, CO. Our latest survey systems will be on display at booth 79, including the Optech Polaris, Maverick, Eclipse, and award-winning Galaxy, while our staff will discuss the state of mobile mapping at an
Monday, February 6th, 2017
After Rwanda made waves in early 2016 for allegedly being the first country to approve drone delivery, people payed attention. The country, with its rolling hills and one of the fastest-growing economies in Central Africa, now has established regulations regarding drones and has become a vanguard of sorts for the region. “My impression is that
Monday, February 6th, 2017
Announcing the Beta release of CloudSpatial GIS Server – an ESRI Geoservices REST Implementation. CloudSpatial is a drop in replacement for ArcGIS Server that works with all ESRI API’s and ArcGIS Desktop. CloudSpatial was created as an alternative to ArcGIS Server for organizations that have existing investments / apps built with ESRI technology but would
Monday, February 6th, 2017
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate GeoPackage 1.2 standard. GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information. It is suitable for use across many domains, from defense and intelligence to outdoor recreation. Over the course of 2016, the GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) made
Monday, February 6th, 2017
Gaithersburg, MD – MDA Information Systems LLC (MDA), a provider of geospatial and advanced information solutions to government and commercial customers, announces the release of NATURALVUE® 2.0 – the only global, commercially available, cloud-free, seamless mosaic using current imagery. All the land masses of the Earth except portions of Antarctica were acquired with new Landsat
Monday, February 6th, 2017
(Sun Prairie, WI) — Continental Mapping is pleased to bring Pete Briere into our senior management team as General Manager of our Civil Works Division. Pete has 20 years of experience in the geospatial industry ranging across numerous markets and technologies. Most recently he has served as General Manager at Premier Geospatial, where he expanded
Monday, February 6th, 2017
ENVITIA is proud to announce the release of the next generation of MapLink Pro centred around the theme of speed. Speed in visualisation of dynamic data, speed in the manipulation of complex spatial data and speed to market. MapLink Pro 10.0 is a powerful suite of SDKs that provides users with the ability to embed
