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Monday, December 9th, 2013

CryoSat Measures Recent European Storm Surge

ESA’s CryoSat satellite measured the storm surge from the recent North Sea storms, as high waters passed through the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden.

Monday, December 9th, 2013

Bluesky Appoints Robert Loughran as International Sales Manager

Aerial mapping company Bluesky has appointed Robert Loughran, an experienced geospatial business development executive, to the position of International Sales Manager. Loughran has previously held senior positions with geotechnical survey company Fugro, geospatial product and service company Infoterra and aerial mapping company BKS Surveys. Loughran joins Bluesky at an exciting time as the Leicestershire company

Sunday, December 8th, 2013

USGS Science at American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, December 8-13, 2013

The U.S. Geological Survey participates in the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting with hundreds of technical presentations.  Below are some highlights of USGS science at AGU this year. Highlights about the technical sessions are presented in chronological order with session numbers, and room numbers in San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center (either Moscone South, MS, or

Friday, December 6th, 2013

Help DigitalGlobe Choose the Top Image of 2013

DigitalGlobe saw many changes in 2013, including our combination with GeoEye in February. The combination grew our constellation to five satellites, adding the capability to collect more than one billion square kilometers of imagery to our archive this year alone!

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

MAPPS to Testify At Congressional Hearing on Geospatial Coordination and Land Management

MAPPS, the association of private geospatial firms, will testify at a Congressional hearing tomorrow to advocate for greater coordination of the Federal government’s geospatial activities, a coordinated effort to inventory the land the government owns, and a reduction of government duplication of and competition with the private geospatial profession.

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

Bluesky Helps UK Government Research into Viability of Solar Energy to UK PLc

Aerial mapping company Bluesky is supporting a million pound research project into the potential costs and benefits of solar energy in the UK. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), PV2025 aims to answer a number of questions relating to the production of solar energy through photovoltaics across the UK and how

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

1Spatial Proud To Sponsor AGI Student of the Year Award

1Spatial is proud to sponsor the AGI Student of the Year Award, which will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony in London on 5 December 2013. The industry award is just one of the ways that the AGI, the UK’s geospatial membership body, looks to encourage best practice, innovation and maximum use of geographic

Monday, December 2nd, 2013

Intergraph Wins Geospatial Innovation Award

Wichmann VDE publishing house, Germany, selected Intergraph SG&I as the 2013 Innovation Award winner for best product. Competing with seven other vendors, Intergraph SG&I was nominated by an independent jury of five geospatial scientists and selected by a large margin of geospatial industry voters.

Monday, December 2nd, 2013

Landsat Users Confirm Its Unique Value

Since 1972, the Landsat program has allowed scientists and analysts to observe the world beyond the power of human sight, monitor changes to the land, and detect critical trends in the conditions of natural resources.

Friday, November 29th, 2013

Exprodat Releases Petroleum Data Assistant for ArcGIS Desktop

Exprodat, the petroleum GIS services, software and training specialist has released Data Assistant, the latest addition to its Team-GIS suite of oil and gas software.