Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Ocean scientist, geographer, and geographic information system (GIS) author Dawn J. Wright will join Esri as its chief scientist on October 3, 2011. She will help formulate and advance the intellectual agenda for the environmental, conservation, climate, and ocean sciences aspect of Esri’s work while also representing Esri to the national/international scientific community. A notable authority
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies announced that its reseller in Brazil, ENGESAT, has successfully promoted SuperGIS Desktop Lab Kit and GIS Learning CD to Universidade Federal do Ceará. Located in Brazil, Universidade Federal do Ceará is a renowned university in the local region. The University has contributed to many outstanding research results in the fields of environment, communication, information,
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
ShapeSpace Ltd, developer of world-leading search technology for CAD and PLM, announce the creation of a Consultancy Services Group. The consultancy services group has been formed to add value to the company’s growing customer base by delivering strategic business improvement projects & initiatives. Its aim is to improve operational & financial performance of the recipients,
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
A new video tutorial, entitled Predicting Land Cover Change with Land Change Modeler, is now available on the Clark Labs’ website. Land Change Modeler utilizes land cover maps of two dates to evaluate historic changes. These changes can then be related to variables that determine or influence land cover change, in order to extrapolate changes into
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Poster competitions are an excellent means of illustrating and testing how well students are able to demonstrate both research skills and communication skills. Many geography and GIS degree and certificate programs sponsor student poster competitions, particularly as part of their GIS Day events. GIS Day 2011 is Wednesday, November 16, 2011 and URISA is pleased
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
TerraGo Technologies has introduced a support, maintenance and distribution program for enterprise customers of its Toolbar, one of the industry’s most widely adopted geospatial collaboration software solutions. Launched in 2002, the TerraGo Toolbar is used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide to interact with TerraGo GeoPDF® maps and imagery, which have become a de facto
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
GRAPHISOFT announced today that ArchiCAD 15’s global rollout process has begun, with the shipping of the US, International English, and German versions. The US, International English, and German versions are the first three of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 15’s global release schedule. ArchiCAD 15 software packages will reach end users in the coming weeks. All local
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Getmapping has upgraded the mapping layers it makes available via WMS (Web Mapping Service). The WMS layer suite now includes all Ordnance Survey PSMA (Public Sector Mapping Agreement) datasets, all Ordnance Survey OpenData mapping and Getmapping’s own nationwide high resolution aerial photography.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Now available with Matrox Mura MPX Series display wall controller boards, the Matrox PowerDesk Edge Overlap feature provides an easy, cost-effective solution designed to drive seamless images over multi-projector setups. Matrox Edge Overlap duplicates the GPU’s output edges, allowing projector edges to be physically overlapped with one another. The fine detail of manipulating the number
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Will your city be the next European Green Capital? Today the search to find the city that will inherit the prestigious title in 2014 begins. Four cities – Stockholm, Hamburg, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Nantes – have been awarded the title so far, from 2010 to 2013 respectively. The European Green Capital Award recognizes and rewards cities
