Thursday, July 7th, 2011
The UK’s new Land Cover Map is published today (Wednesday 6 July), providing a continuous coverage of habitat distributions across the countryside at a 25m resolution. The map was developed using a combination of satellite images and national scale digital mapping data. The new map is the third in a series produced by the Centre for
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
CloverPoint is pleased to announce one of our Spatial Systems Analysts, Laura Colquhoun, has won the 2011 GeoAlberta 2D and 3D Online Cartography Map Gallery Award. This award recognizes technical achievement in 2D and 3D digital presentations. The award took place in Edmonton at the annual GeoAlberta GIS conference.
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Carbon footprint” has worked its way into the lexicon of a warming world, but carbon isn’t the only gas that can tell us about the health of our changing planet. Nitrogen is another worth tracking, especially when it comes to monitoring pollutants that can adversely affect an ecosystem’s soil, water quality, plant growth and biodiversity.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Decked out with a quad-core Core i7 chip and discrete graphics, the Toshiba Qosmio F750 is not only a powerful gaming portable, but also relatively affordable at its starting price of S$2,599 (for the 2D version). However, the Japanese maker wasn’t satisfied and has upped the ante by giving this machine a glasses-free 3D display. Instead of passive polarizing
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
GeoEye, Inc. announced that it has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery for international customers in Russia and its neighboring countries.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Sparx Systems today announced a partnership with Geoplex. The partnership follows the ongoing success of Sparx Systems’ flagship modeling platform, Enterprise Architect, within the geospatial sector. Widely used within the geospatial community to manage information architectures, Enterprise Architect has been adopted within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to maintain all ISO19100 family models for
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to officially release SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition, its latest server-based software, to global market. Designed for creating, managing and distributing diverse GIS resources over the Internet to support desktop, mobile and web applications, SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition assists enterprises in developing, managing, integrating, and publishing multiple GIS services in
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
While performing satellite imagery of the Black Sea water areas on June 24 the specialists of ScanEx Center detected an extensive slick on the sea surface of ship origin. As of the moment of detecting the slick, in an intricate elongated form, outstretched 119 km within the Russian sector of the Black Sea 155 km
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
NAVTEQ is now offering Postal Code Boundaries in Europe. The polygons in this new product are geo-referenced to the industry leading NAVTEQ map, which allows highly effective territorial comparison and analysis in a broad range of enterprise and GIS applications. Read More
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Bluesky has launched a new on demand service to complement its existing solar mapping product. The service provides detailed solar panel suitability assessment reports for individual properties and developments. Suitable for commercial, industrial, public sector and even large domestic properties the Bluesky SolAR (Solar Assessment Report) service provides an interactive 3D model of the property
