Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet, and as a result, sea ice is receding opening northern sea routes. This will increase the level of commercial shipping and give an easier access to the resource wealth of the region (hydrocarbons, minerals, and fish). The detrimental effect on land and marine
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Some of Australia’s leading cardiologists have enlisted cutting-edge mapping technology in the war against Australia’s biggest killer – heart disease. Using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology from location intelligence experts Esri Australia, a national team of researchers have conducted a comprehensive seven-year study into access to cardiac services before and after cardiac events.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Esri has recognised more than 170 organisations during the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards at this year’s Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California. The SAG Awards acknowledge innovative and intelligent applications of GIS technology and this year’s winners include three from the UK: BT, Manchester Airports Group and National Grid
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 and SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3 recently have been employed by Fisheries Commissions in Ghana and Liberia based on the recommendations of Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services at the University of Ghana. SuperGIS technology enables the personnel at the Fisheries Commissions to develop a GIS system for fishery resource analyses
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Ordnance Survey is launching a new international service to help other countries around the world un-tap the multi-million pound potential of accurate geographic information (GI). The national mapping agency of Great Britain stands at the forefront globally of advances in geospatial management. And now, supporting the Government’s drive to share and promote the nation’s knowledge
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Leica GeoMoS, the market-leading software for monitoring applications, has been updated to version 5.3. In order to enable a permanent monitoring process, the latest version provides the best possible integration into a modern and high secure IT infrastructure as a Windows Service. For large monitoring installations using GNSS sensors and multiple total stations with hundreds
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Esri Canada congratulates the Province of British Columbia for receiving the Esri Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award yesterday at the Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). This award acknowledges the Province’s vision, leadership and innovative use of Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The Province has created and maintains a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) today announced the successful separation from the Soyuz launcher and subsequent operation of mission-critical systems onboard the exactView-1 satellite, which was built by the Company under contract to prime contractor COM DEV Canada for exactEarth.
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Esri recognized more than 170 organizations during the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards ceremony yesterday at the annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California. The SAG Awards acknowledge innovative and intelligent applications of GIS technology.
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Researchers investigating global issues now have an easy method for finding and using earth science data through a new technology developed by the Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE. Understanding broad and complex environmental issues, for example climate change, increasingly relies on the discovery and analysis of massive datasets. But the amount of collected
