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Friday, July 6th, 2012
Extreme weather such as hurricanes, floods and even excessive heat or cold claims lives every year. The European body that monitors weather and climate from space has now joined international partners to help prepare for disasters.
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Explore the impacts of the recent storms with the Esri Story Map. Preconfigured views for Washington, D.C. and Baltimore provide an in-depth look at vulnerable populations and health care access in these metropolitan areas.
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
To support compliance testing, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations for client software that implements the OGC Web Map Service (WMS) 1.3 Interface Standard. Development and testing of WMS 1.3 Reference Implementations will be coordinated and managed as part of the Compliance and Interoperability Testing & Evaluation (CITE) Thread in this year’s major
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Advanced geospatial technology is crucial if Australian utilities are to tackle the industry’s biggest challenges, according to a leading international geo-utilities expert. Bill Meehan, Global Director for Utilities at Esri – the world’s largest GIS software company – was in Australia this week to address the region’s top utilities on the issue of spatially enabling
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
OpenGeo, the company committed to bringing the best enterprise open source geospatial software and support to organizations and governments worldwide, will be an active participant in this year’s Geoinformatics Forum taking place in Salzburg, Austria from July 3-6, 2012 at the University of Salzburg. This international, English-language event will run concurrently with the highly regarded
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
Over a dozen radio signals that have hindered data collection on ESA’s SMOS water mission have been switched off. The effort also benefits satellites such as NASA’s Aquarius mission, which measures ocean salinity at the same frequency.
Friday, June 29th, 2012
ESA and China have been cooperating through the Dragon Programme since 2004 to encourage the use of Earth observation in China. Building on the success of the past years, the programme is taking on more momentum as it enters its third phase.
Friday, June 29th, 2012
GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced the receipt of a $111 million cost-share payment from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In early June, the company successfully passed a major milestone in their GeoEye-2 satellite’s development as part of the NGA’s EnhancedView program, triggering this cost-share payment.
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
I’ve been selfishly waiting to complete the launch of Eye on Earth Network before sharing more information about the status of Eye on Earth. Last September my team at Microsoft began working with Esri and the European Environment Agency to expand the capability of Eye on Earth – transforming it from a bespoke solution
