Saturday, January 21st, 2012
The German government, aiming to spark an international dialogue about sustainable technologies, sponsored a 12-city North American tour of Das Haus, a model home and pavilion that showcases cutting-edge solar energy and energy-efficient construction. Read More
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
Union Pacific said Friday it plans to invest $1 billion in railroad projects in Nebraska over the next several years to upgrade the capacity of its network. Jim Young, the CEO of Union Pacific Corp., said he expects the investments to help create at least 1,000 jobs in Nebraska. The company plans to invest the money
Friday, January 20th, 2012
TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial collaboration software, has expanded its global presence with the opening of an office in the U.K. to promote further expansion in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and to support customers in the region. Industry veteran Stuart Miller has joined TerraGo to run the Perth, Scotland
Friday, January 20th, 2012
With the recent passing of longtime leader Kim Jong-il, the international community’s eyes are once again focused on North Korea. The succession of Kim Jong-un and military provocations over the past year with South Korea bring an uncertain status to the region’s stability. Now is the time for zealous study of this nuclear armed country. East View
Friday, January 20th, 2012
GEOCORE led by Envitia, including Helyx SIS Ltd, University of Nottingham, University College London (UCL) and QinetiQ has been awarded a two year £1.9M contract by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Advanced Geospatial information and Intelligence Services (AGIS) research programme. This includes the development of science and technology, methods and techniques to underpin and improve the
Friday, January 20th, 2012
SuperGeo is going to release SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3, which contains a number of spatial modeling and analysis algorithms and provides friendly user interface to help uses complete complicated spatial analysis tasks. Spatial analyst 3.0 mainly offers integration of vector and raster data, analysis of spatial relationship, best location search, analysis of service area, multiple layer
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial collaboration software, has expanded its global presence with the opening of an office in the U.K. to promote further expansion in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and to support customers in the region. Industry veteran Stuart Miller has joined TerraGo to run the Perth,
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the release of a free GeoViewer application for iPad designed to view geospatial imagery and vector overlays. The free GeoViewer application enables users to view data stored on the iPad. GeoViewer supports MrSID and JPEG 2000 formats, and includes measurement functionality as well as geolocation support.
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Safe Software announced today the new release of its flagship product, FME 2012. This release of FME Desktop and FME Server introduces new tools for overcoming data challenges so that data can be used and shared precisely where, when and how it’s needed.
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Now it is possible to order RADARSAT-2 SAR images in detailed spotlight mode SPOTLIGHT A at the spatial resolution of 1 meter. The advantage of the RADARSAT-2 image with meter resolution is the big scene size. Its area covers 144 sq.km (18×18 km), which exceeds the size of scenes, received from other satellites with similar
