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
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
ITT Corp.’s Rochester-based geospatial systems division and Massachusetts-based Mercury Computer Systems Inc. have signed an agreement that will see the two develop technology for streaming video surveillance and other imagery taken by unmanned aerial drones to military personnel. The companies did not announce a time frame for the joint effort. Read More
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Russian space agency Roscosmos said Friday it plans to launch two satellites and a space freighter in August. The Express-AM4 satellite will be launched Aug 18 on board a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur Space Centre in Kazakhstan. A Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft will be launched from Baikonur to the International Space Station Aug 24 on
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
This dataset was collected during the summer of 2008 by Sanborn on behalf of the Teton Conservation District. The project mapped 141 square miles of area within the Snake River Range and the Teton National Forest. The area covered is west of the Snake River to the Bridger-Teton National Forest boundary, and from Teton Village
