Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Good news for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme: the European Council has secured the programme’s EU funding through 2020. The multiannual financial framework – MFF – is a seven-year plan for the EU’s budget. On 8 February, European heads of State and government agreed to include GMES in the 2014–20 MFF.
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 6th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-6). AIP-6 aims to increase the use of GEOSS resources by end-users. An end-user might be, for example, a farmer in a developing nation whose cell phone
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
UK local authority Slough Borough Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to use thermal imaging to clamp down on people living illegally in outbuildings. It is not known exactly how many so-called “sheds with beds” there are in Slough, but estimates range from 700 to 3,000.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the formation of the Moving Features Standards Working Group (Moving Features SWG). “Moving features” data describes such things as vehicles and pedestrians.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Cutting-edge mapping technology used to take on violent gangs in the US could assist South Australian crime fighters in the state’s bikie war, according to a visiting international law enforcement expert. Twenty-eight year police veteran and former criminal profiler Mike King – now a law enforcement expert with global Geographic Information System (GIS) giant Esri
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Laser scanning specialist 3D Laser Mapping has opened a new state of the art research and development centre strategically located close to their global headquarters in Nottingham, UK. The new facility will be headed by 3D Laser Mapping founder Dr Graham Hunter and will house a dedicated research and development team. Focussing on new product
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) announced today that it has acquired a suite of software solutions from Penmap.com Ltd. of Bradford, United Kingdom. Penmap.com’s solutions include both office and field data collection software specifically designed for the cadastral and surveying markets. The comprehensive software suite enables Trimble to further address local application requirements and customer needs by providing
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Esri has hired Drew Stephens to expand the market for GIS within the ocean industry. Esri, the world leader in GIS, has accelerated the development of its ocean technologies via the Esri Ocean GIS Initiative. As Esri’s industry manager for ocean and coastal environments, Stephens will play a key role in this effort through his
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has adopted the OGC CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
For EcoLog ERIS, Canada’s leading provider of environmental risk information, leveraging technology is important to continuously improving services. The company recently replaced its legacy mapping system with Esri’s enterprise geographic information system (GIS) technology. The new Web-based application allows ERIS to automate numerous mapping tasks and produce better quality reports at a significantly faster rate.
