Monday, September 30th, 2013
American Sentinel University will be a featured participant and key sponsor at the upcoming GIS in the Rockies 2013 – Local to Global: Geospatial on the Move conference Oct. 9-10 at The Cable Center in Denver, Colo.
Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Building on its use of satellites for responding to disasters, ESA has helped to create a service that makes flood maps available simply via the Internet.
Friday, September 27th, 2013
Pleaides the very high resolution satellite manufactured and operated by Astrium, photographed the new island of Zalzala Koh from its orbit 695km above the Earth on 26 September 2013.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
On October 3, at the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions the book “Earth from Space: legislation, regulation and judicial practice” will be presented. The presentation will be held in the Protocol Hall of the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” complex during the section “Remote Sensing Legislation” ( 14:30-16:00 Moscow time).
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Lockheed Martin submitted its competitive proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) initiative aimed at leveraging commercial satellites for some government missions.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
A team developing ideas for future products and services at Ordnance Survey has created a map of Great Britain in the popular Minecraft video game, featuring 22 billion blocks, using their freely available digital map products in OS OpenData, and made it available for download as a new Minecraft world.
Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Esri Press has released the fifth edition of Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. This seminal book on planning and implementing a geographic information system (GIS) is authored by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, widely recognized as “the father of GIS.”
Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has been selected by the UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to provide sophisticated mapping and monitoring services for its new electronic monitoring program. Selected as preferred bidder for the contract, Astrium Services teams based in Far.nborough, Hampshire, will provide the mapping and monitoring expertise to enable the movements of
Friday, September 20th, 2013
1Spatial, the spatial big data company which manages some of the world’s largest spatial data, and a Gold level member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), today announced it has achieved OPN Specialized status for Oracle Spatial.
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Building a successful career in geographic information systems (GIS) is not achieved overnight and requires time, preparation and a systematic approach to developing professional credentials and experience. American Sentinel University’s new e-book, ‘Five Steps to Build Your GIS Career,’ offers insight about why it’s so important for GIS students to develop their professional credentials through
