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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

GEO Illustration Challenge “Transcending Borders” Now Open for Submissions

April 21, 2015 —The GEO Illustration Challenge is asking participants to give our planet a new face. The theme is “Transcending Borders – and Changing the Earth’s Image”. From illustrators and designers to keen Photoshoppers, everyone is invited to participate. The grand prize: a VIP invitation to a 2016 ESA satellite launch at Guiana Space

Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

URISA GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015 Conference Details Announced

Des Plaines, IL, April 20, 2015 — URISA, the Northwest GIS Users’ Group (NWGIS), and the Northern Rockies and Washington URISA Chapters are pleased to announce the details of GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015 taking place October 18-22, 2015 in Spokane, Washington.

Monday, April 20th, 2015

EuroGeographics announces new Chair for Cadastre and Land Registry Knowledge Exchange Network

April 20, 2015 — EuroGeographics has named Cadastral Surveying expert Daniel Steudler as the new Chair of its Cadastre and Land Registry Knowledge Exchange Network (C&LR KEN).

Monday, April 20th, 2015

Navy Awards $30M GIS Surveying Contract

DAYTON, Ohio, April 20, 2015 — The U.S. Navy has awarded NAVGeo LLC a $30 million contract to provide geographic information systems, surveying and mapping services.

Monday, April 20th, 2015

USGS Continues to Write History

April 20, 2015 — The fourth volume of the comprehensive history of the U.S. Geological Survey, Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare: Volume 4, 1939‒1961, has been issued as an electronic document.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

FOSS4G Seoul 2015 Registration Opens

April 17, 2015 — The International conference for Free and Open Source SW for Geospatial(FOSS4G) is now open for registration. http://2015.foss4g.org/attending/registration/

Friday, April 17th, 2015

GOCE Helps Tap into Sustainable Energy Resources

April 17, 2015 — Going far above and beyond its original mission objectives, results from the GOCE gravity satellite are now being used to produce maps for geothermal energy development.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

BC Assessment Wins Award for Transforming Property Assessment Using GIS

VICTORIA, April 17, 2015 — BC Assessment (BCA) received an Award of Excellence today from Esri Canada for using geographic information system (GIS) technology to improve property assessment and public access to property information in British Columbia.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

Esri and Safe Software Release Common Framework for Data Exchange among Electrical Power Utilities

Redlands, California, April 17, 2015  — Esri and Safe Software have paired to develop and openly share a Common Information Model (CIM) template for data exchange. The template demonstrates one approach to translating network data from an Esri ArcGIS database into CIM XML format. The XML can then be shared with other enterprise systems.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

Earth Observation 2.0 – How Satellite Data Reveal Our Blue Planet

April 17, 2015 — The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is organising the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE) in Berlin from 11 to 15 May 2015. The conference has taken place every two years since the 1960s – most recently in Beijing in 2013 and