Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that the SMKN 4 Palangkaraya Senior High school, Indonesia, purchased SuperGIS serial products. The educators attempt to utilize the GIS technology to improve the education quality and innovation in geography. The development of technology facilitates the rapid exchange of information. Hence, how to make geographic knowledge easier and accessible to students is crucial
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
SuperGeo announces that SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3 is officially released worldwide. The latest extension contains a number of spatial modeling and analysis algorithms and provides friendly user interface to help user effectively complete complicated spatial analysis tasks. The latest version of SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3.0 supports to import point, line, polygon, and raster data for some
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
IGN France International and the French IGN (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information), in close cooperation with the Geographic Institute of Burkina Faso (IGB), the Economic Commission for Africa and Esri, are organising a regional seminar entitled: “National Spatial Data Infrastructures: which benefits for African emerging countries?” that will be held on April 3rd
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Earth-observing satellites can map natural phenomena such as floods and earthquakes, track hurricanes and monitor land subsidence across the globe. This information can be valuable to insurance companies for risk and damage assessment. Information obtained by satellite observations can save money and make the insurance industry more efficient.As the insurance industry confronts new challenges – like
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Esri Canada congratulates APOS Systems for receiving the Esri Partner Award for Best Enterprise Integration Application at the 2012 Esri Partner Conference in California. The company was recognized for its APOS Location Intelligence Solution (LIS), which integrates Esri’s industry-leading geographic information system (GIS) technology with SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence software. The solution helps organizations improve business
Monday, March 26th, 2012
GeoCue Corporation, parent company of QCoherent Software LLC, is pleased to announce that PASCO Philippines Corporation has selected LP360 for ArcGIS as their standard LIDAR production tool. PASCO Philippines has deployed over 40 seats of LP360 for ArcGIS®. Mr. Rico Pajaganas, Chief Technology Officer for PASCO Philippines, stated “After an exhaustive evaluation of LIDAR tools for
Monday, March 26th, 2012
The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to
Monday, March 26th, 2012
The Southwest Margin is a section of the continental margin off Australia’s western coast. It includes the Paleozoic to Mesozoic Southern Carnarvon, Perth and Mentelle basins, as well as the Naturaliste and Wallaby plateaus. While several smaller hydrocarbon discoveries have been made onshore, the offshore region remains underexplored. Recent studies, however, indicate there is potential
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) has selected Power InRoads as its new transportation design solution. MTO is the first transportation agency worldwide to standardize on Bentley’s new stand-alone offering of the InRoads family of products.
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Esri UK has announced the completion of the UK’s first regional Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with Hampshire County Council. The ELA will enable other public sector organisations in the county to access the existing ELA, and share the benefits of a central, scalable platform.