Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Thanks to citizen-scientists around the country, the USA National Phenology Network hit a major milestone this week by reaching its one millionth nature observation. The millionth observation was done by Lucille Tower, a citizen-scientist in Portland, Ore., who entered a record about seeing maple vines flowering. Her data, like all of the entries, came in
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the association of private geospatial firms, will testify before a Congressional oversight field hearing to advocate for greater coordination of the Federal government’s geospatial activities, a coordinated effort to inventory the land the government owns, and a reduction of government duplication of and competition with the private geospatial profession.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that Brazilian firm FotoTerra has purchased multiple licenses of its Correlator3D™ product. The software will be used to generate orthophotos, create mosaics and perform editing as required.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Safe Software and Blue Marble Geographics announced today that they have teamed up to bring the best of both of their products together in one authoring environment to increase the possibilities of what can be achieved in the use and distribution of spatial data. With the release of the GeoCalc Extension for FME, in addition
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
A digital map of trees created by aerial mapping company Bluesky is helping to support a range of environmental projects in London. Using Bluesky’s tree map The Ecology Consultancy (TEC) and the Green Roof Consultancy (GRC) have undertaken a Green Infrastructure (GI) Audit on behalf of Hammersmith London Business Improvement District (BID) to assess the
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Lockheed Martin announced today that it has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the imaging payload for GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company is developing GeoEye-2 under a fixed-price contract with GeoEye. Once operational, GeoEye-2 will be the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite, providing highly accurate imagery to
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
1Spatial is delighted to report that the company received two top sales awards at the recent Safe Software Value Added Reseller (VAR) Event in Vancouver, Canada. 1Spatial Australia was named as a Top Sales VAR at the annual event in Safe’s hometown of Vancouver. The award for Top Sales recognises the highest overall sales performance
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Dr. Olli-Pekka Tossavainen from Nokia Research Center will deliver a keynote “Big Data Computing for Traffic Information by GPS Sensing” at COM.Geo 2012 conference which will be held on July 1-3, Washington, DC.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is set to have a busy month of May, exhibiting at five different conferences. Showcasing the company’s entire line of geospatial products, LizardTech representatives will be available for product demonstrations and to answer questions.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced the local collaboration with Motorola Solutions. SuperGeo will be marketing Motorola ET1, the industrial grade and Android-powered tablet in Taiwan. In this business partnership, Tatung System Technologies Inc., the primarily authorized agent of Enterprise Mobility Solutions in Taiwan, will cooperate with SuperGeo
