Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Michael Oskin, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, is lead author on a recent Science journal paper that describes how a team of scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and China used differential absorption LIDAR(light detection and ranging) to report the most comprehensive three-dimensional (3D) before-and-after pictures yet of an earthquake zone using data from the magnitude 7.2 event
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Europe’s meteorological satellite organization, Eumetsat, has again been unable to secure its member governments’ full support to start work on a next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system and will try anew in July, Eumetsat officials said. The 27-nation Eumetsat said it has nonetheless increased the guaranteed contributions to the program, to 83 percent of the total
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
EuroGeographics provided updated EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap, EuroBoundaryMap products, to Eurostat based on contract signed with them, on behalf of the European Commission. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 supplied to Eurostat, now covers 41 countries and territories and includes the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia for the first time. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 will be released to the market place at the end of February 2012. Existing
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
TomTom announced that together they will introduce HD Traffic, a premium real-time traffic solution, to drivers across China. Through the joint-venture TomTom and AutoNavi will enable their customers in automotive, wireless and enterprise markets to deliver solutions based on the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic information.
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Kalypso is an open source application for geospatial modelling and simulation. It is primarily developed to be a user friendly tool for GIS-based modelling and simulation of hydrological and hydraulic numerical models. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
On February 13 the Moscow-based UniScan ground station of ScanEx RDC received the image of the Gulf of Finland, acquired by SPOT 4 satellite. The ice situation in the Gulf of Finland poses no threats to ships navigation. Current situation with ice-breaker escorting in Eastern part of the Gulf of Finland is considered by the
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Z/I Imaging is pleased to announce the release of its Z/I Software version 6.4. Z/I Sensor Software includes a suite of products for the DMC and DMC II camera families for raw image data post processing, distributed processing, digital image enhancement, in-field data copy and real time image quality control. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
The inaugural NT Spatial Excellence Awards will be presented at the NT Spatial 2012 conference dinner on the 22nd March at the Darwin Convention Centre. The goal of the awards is to recognise and promote the achievements and excellence of those in the surveying and spatial sciences. There are a variety of categories for individual and project based
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has pledged IMO’s support for the Philippines in all facets of the country’s maritime development. In wide-ranging talks in Manila with Philippines’ President Benigno S. Aquino III, as well as the country’s Secretaries for Foreign Affairs, Transport and Communication, and Labour and Employment, Mr Sekimizu expressed his appreciation for the efforts made
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani today announced in London that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites for the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation programme under the supervision of the European Space Agency. Read More
