Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The national forest certification systems of the Czech Republic and France have become the latest systems to seek PEFC endorsement for the third time. Stakeholders globally are invited to provide feedback on their compliance with PEFC International’s Sustainability Benchmarks by 28 October 2011.
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The GIS Best Practice Award from the German DVW eV – Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management will be awarded for GIS projects that are exemplary and serve as models and reference examples. The Award is expected to increase the publicity of these projects and knowledge transfer is anticipated to be promoted in the use
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) established the GIS Hall of Fame in 2005 to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual’s or an organization’s record of contribution to the advancement of the industry demonstrates creative thinking and
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Esri Community Analyst is now available to qualified nonprofit organizations located in the United States for 50 percent off the regular subscription fee. Humanitarian, environmental, and conservation groups can implement this Software as a Service (SaaS) mapping and data analysis solution to better understand the populations they serve, track the effectiveness of their services, and
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Four days before Hurricane Irene struck eastern North Carolina and tracked northward, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center accurately projected the storm’s path. Even before then, forecasts showed that Irene would threaten the East Coast. This satellite animation shows Irene’s progress across the western Atlantic and how it followed the National Hurricane Center’s track issued at 11pm
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The initiative is justified, among others, by the need to “inter-condition the activities of MDRT and ANCPI” in view of achieving the common sectorial policy goals of regional development planning and systematic cadastral and land registration, and by the need to correlate territorial development policies with the land management activity, reads the act drafted by
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to announce the latest sales achievement in Papua New Guinea, where SPZ Enterprise selected SuperGIS Desktop 3 and SuperPad 3 to enhance geospatial project services for local government. SPZ Enterprise focuses on the project services in the fields of environment planning, agriculture, land management, reforestation and plantation, serving the clients in Oceania,
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Trimble introduced today its new high-accuracy assisted steering system, available at an affordable price. The Trimble EZ-Pilot™ system turns the steering wheel with its integrated electric motor drive using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) guidance from the CFX-750™ display or the FmX® integrated display. The announcement was made at the Farm Progress Show. The EZ-Pilot system features
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Astrium GEO-Information Services tasked its satellites to collect data over the USA in anticipation of hurricane Irene’s arrival to the east coast. Over 100,000 km2 of cloud-free SPOT optical imagery and more than 85,000km2 of TerraSAR-X radar data were collected as of Monday, Aug. 29 covering portions of the U.S. east coast from Charleston, SC
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
At a recent press-conference on monitoring and control of natural and human-induced emergency situations was held in “Rossiyskaya gazeta” press-center. The event participants noted that satellite imagery data has been increasingly wider used for emergencies monitoring and response. Each summer Russian forest suffers from fires. On the one hand a forest fire is one of
