Friday, March 16th, 2012
The Cities Alliance Secretariat has issued a second Call for Proposals to the Catalytic Fund (CATF) focused on the theme, “Youth and the City”. This is in recognition of the urgent need to address what is increasingly one of the most critical development challenges of our times, the ‘youth bulge’ in cities. The thematic focus on
Friday, March 16th, 2012
As the first ever ‘total’ coastal path nears completion and gets ready for the official opening in May, the GeoVation Challenge has crossed the Severn Bridge to encourage the public, businesses, charities, groups, schools and universities to submit innovative ideas of how Wales can make the most of it.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Bristol City Council have now gone ‘live’ and published an online map highlighting potential untapped revenue across the region. The map, freely available on the council’s website, shows the expected solar power generation if PV panels were fitted to building rooftops throughout Bristol. Produced in part by leading aerial survey specialist Blom, a map on this scale is
Friday, March 16th, 2012
3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama will exhibit Esri Partner Conference March 24–27, 2012, in Palm Springs, California at the Palm Springs Convention Center this year.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
George Percivall , Chief Architect & Executive Director – Interoperability Program, OGC, will deliver a keynote “Connecting Islands in the Internet of Things” at COM.Geo 2012 conference which will be held on July 1-3, Washington, DC.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Eternix Ltd. today announced that its newly released version of Blaze Terra, the company’s flagship product, supports visualization and processing of multi-band imagery. This new capability allows real-time presentation and manipulation of up to thousands of color bands, in high dynamic range (both 8 and 16 bit of colors per channel). Color bands can further be blended and tuned by
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
In recent years, people need traffic information more urgently because of having closer social contact with each other. To meet people’s right to know and enable them to query bus information such as routes, stop information and so forth, “Highway Bus Information System” was announced to public in 2009. However, it could neither manage information
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
SimActive Inc. is pleased to announce release 4.0 of its Correlator3D product capable of producing dense digital surface models (DSM). Building on the success of its previous DSM module, this new release leaps ahead to enable production of DSMs approaching the resolution of the input imagery with constant sampling across all areas. Read More
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Derby City Council has embarked on an ambitious plan to make ‘location’ central to all that the council does. The Council’s infrastructure partner, Serco, procured the UK based software developer Cadcorp, to provide its Spatial Information System technology as a new approach to the existing GIS and mapping technologies currently in use.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and aerial camera mappers, is pleased to announce the release of its new CS-15000 aerial camera system. It is the first large-format camera to include both patented field-replaceable shutter and FMC technologies, making it the best solution for wide-area mapping as well as an excellent film
