Friday, June 28th, 2013
MDA’s Information Systems group announced today that it is making available a series of RADARSAT-2 flood maps to any local, provincial, or federal agency or non-profit organization that is involved in responding to the recent flooding in Alberta.
Friday, June 28th, 2013
American Sentinel University’s GIS program chair, Stephen McElroy, Ph.D., GISP, will detail how competency-based learning is an educational strategy that provides a flexible means for geographic information systems (GIS) students to demonstrate content mastery in his presentation ‘Online Geospatial Learning Lab Exemplifies Competency-based Learning’ at the upcoming 2013 Esri Education GIS Conference on Tuesday, July
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced a call for public comment on the OGC WaterML 2.0 – part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Discussion Paper. This OGC discussion paper can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp.
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) recently completed two key programmatic reviews at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and is continuing a steady, on schedule and on budget march toward the 2017 launch of JPSS-1, the second in the series of next generation polar-orbiting weather satellites.
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
Safe Software, makers of FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, today announced that with the assistance of its Value Added Reseller (VAR) partners it has wrapped up another successful FME World Tour in 2013. Through events hosted in 49 cities around the globe over 2,000 attendees were given the opportunity to learn about FME
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
The geo-analytic system “AgroUpravlenie” (agro-control) for inventory and monitoring of agricultural lands has started to operate in the Tambov Region. This was made possible due to a long-term and fruitful partnership between “CentrProgrammSystem” LLC and ScanEx RDC, whose experience in creating highly detailed maps was used in “AgroUpravlenie” geo-analytic system.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
The national Office for Survey, Mapping, and Cadastre of the Czech Republic has launched new iOS and Android apps that make it simple to find authoritative land information wherever you are. Users from the real estate sector, just one group from the enthusiastic early adopters, predict immediate time savings when assessing properties – thanks to
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
To celebrate the sunny days of summer (in the northern hemisphere at least), today Google launched new satellite imagery for Google’s mapping products. This stunning global view is virtually cloud-free and includes refreshed imagery in more locations—giving you an even more accurate and comprehensive view of our planet’s landscape.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced today new details about the “Build a Lizard” promotion the company is conducting in conjunction with the 2013 Esri International User Conference in San Diego July 8-11.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics has been selected to present on the COAST Tool at the 2013 MAPPS Summer Conference. The conference will be held at the Samoset Resort in Rockland, Maine on July 22nd – 26th. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil
