Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
World-leading architects Foster + Partners and global infrastructure consultants Halcrow have been collaborating on a self-funded £100,000 study to produce a detailed vision for The Thames Hub – this would bring together rail freight connections between the UK’s main sea ports; a 150 million passenger airport to replace Heathrow; a tidal energy barrage and a
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service and Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service are the latest organisations to select Aligned Assets as the supplier for their gazetteer management systems. Both have chosen Symphony Bluelight, the UK’s only gazetteer system built specifically for the emergency services and compatible with the National Address Gazetteer. Built around the Symphony Bluelight
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
This project on “Smart aquifer characterisation of New Zealand’s aquifers” will identify, develop, apply, validate and optimise a suite of novel methods for accurate, rapid and cost-effective characterisation and mapping of New Zealand’s aquifer systems. Z_GIS will set-up an operational Sensor Observation Service in order to validate remote sensing applications done by partner institutions. Based on
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Last December, the URISA Board of Directors decided to reach out to GIS professionals who had not previously been URISA members and offer them a significantly discounted membership opportunity. So far, more than 500 individuals have taken advantage of the offer to join URISA for $20. In addition to the URISA Digest and THE GIS PROFESSIONAL
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Encrypting GPS P-codes is a step backward in providing the best of this excellent work of science and art. As the leader in GPS technology, we consider P-codes encryption as being neither good science nor good politics. Our campaign against Selective Availability was successful. Please join the efforts to end P-codes encryption now. Please read background
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
A new version of the web-based “Fires – Kosmosnimki” (fires.kosmosnimki.ru) service of fire monitoring from satellites is open in Russia. One of the new features is the addition of the analytic add-on over the basic algorithm of “hot spots” detection. This enables to combine separate sites of probable fire blazes into areal fires and to
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Leica Geosystems announces new Leica Cyclone v7.2 software that improves office processing and use of rich “as-built” point cloud data. Several innovations in Leica Cyclone 7.2 address key market needs and trends in the processing and use of rich, as-built point cloud data from laser scanning/High-Definition Surveying. Read More
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The Dutch Kadaster, the organization in the Netherlands responsible for the registration of real estate and geographic information, contributed data from one of its major databases to Esri’s World Topographic Map. The World Topographic Map, along with other basemaps, is freely available in the online version of ArcGIS, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS for Desktop, and ArcGIS for
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, will hold the first annual OpenGeo Global Partner Meeting just prior to the 2011 FOSS4G Conference in Denver, Colorado on September 11th. With a rapidly growing network of international partners, the OpenGeo Global Partner Meeting will focus on developing plans for continuing to support the increasing demand for open
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The Bavarian Surveying Administration with the kind assistance of the Surveying Authorities of the states of Thuringia and Saxony as well as other institutions for the 20th Anniversary of German reunification, a traveling exhibition with the motto: separate limits – limits combine. The focus of the exhibition focuses on the development of the border between Bavaria, Thuringia and
