Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
SuperGeo announces that the latest desktop GIS software—SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 is officially launched worldwide. SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 apply the whole new SuperGIS Engine 3 as the development core and provides more abundant GIS tools so that users in various fields can effectively display, edit, manage, query, analyze spatial data with SuperGIS Desktop 3.1.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
The ocean is becoming an increasingly crowded place. New users, such as the wind industry, compete with existing users and interests for space and resources. With the federal mandate for comprehensive ocean planning made explicit in the National Ocean Policy, the need for the transparent evaluation of potential tradeoffs is now greater than ever. A study
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Submissions are currently being sought from young New Zealand designers, architects and engineers for two travel scholarships aimed at supporting the design and reconstruction of quake-ravaged Christchurch. The British Council Christchurch Scholarships, in partnership with Massey University, were launched late last year as a way of supporting Christchurch’s redesign and positively transform the living and working
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Steve Riley, technical leader, office of the chief technology officer (CTO) at Riverbed Technology, will provide the Keynote Address at this year’s Esri Developer Summit. Riley’s keynote, entitled In the Cloud, Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong, will seek to dispel myths and misunderstandings about the cloud and give a fresh perspective on geospatial
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Global geoinformation technologies and first of all Earth remote sensing from space, satellite-based navigation and Internet geoportals have certainly considerably changed and keep on changing our lives. A certain turnaround in the minds of people deserves mentioning: in the new world of open data it is easier to feel comfort and to actually become not
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
In the early hours of 1 March 2002, the largest Earth observation satellite ever built soared into orbit from ESA’s launch base in Kourou, French Guiana. For a decade, Envisat has been keeping watch over our planet.
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Software and hardware engineering efforts at ITRES have moved into the next phase towards integrating our In-Flight Processing System (IPS) development with new highresolution pushframe thermal TABI-1800 imager. “This is a big milestone for us. It moves us closer to our planned goal of offering real search and rescue (SAR) capability to our imaging product
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Government agencies with geospatial or data visualization requirements might want to take at a close look at Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows, the motion-sensor peripheral originally created for the Xbox 360. Read More
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Timmons Group recently developed and released a field inspection and data collection mobile application for Prince William County, Virginia. The solution is tablet-enabled and allows Prince William field staff to realize significant return on investment (ROI) by using their iPad2 tablets to streamline their daily inspection workflows. Approximately one thousand storm water management ponds needing
