Saturday, February 26th, 2011
This Envisat image features the northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula, which stretches beyond the Antarctic Circle to within 1050 km to the southern tip of South America. The 1000-km-long arm of the mountainous peninsula is situated between the Bellingshausen Sea on the west and the Weddell Sea on the east. Along the peninsula, ice
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Within the DFG Initiative for Excellence, Global Networks funding scheme, outstanding international research collaborations are funded. The initiated Global Network “Airborne Laser Scanning for 3D Vegetation Characterization: Set-up of an International Signature Database” allows intensifying the collaborative research of the Chair of GIScience with the Vienna University of Technology (Prof. Pfeifer) and the University of
Friday, February 25th, 2011
The interactive map is both available as OGC-conformant WMS (Web Map Service) as well as a TileCache version. The data update has been automated which allows a weekly update of the OpenStreetMap data for the whole planet into an internal specialized database schema. The initial database features among others about 30 Mio buildings, 36 Mio
Friday, February 25th, 2011
A leading map specialist has launched a comprehensive worldwide gazetteer with immeasurable potential for search and reference applications. Multi-award winning Europa Technologies is aiming its Global 360 product at any business that needs to search, reference and geocode locations worldwide. With a range of entries from countries down to localised places of interest, Global 360 can be used
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Dr. Joseph Kerski, education manager for Esri, is the new president of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE), a nonprofit organization chartered in 1915 to serve geography teachers at all levels of education. Commenting on why geography is important to twenty-first-century education Kerski says, “Geography enables students to understand their world locally to globally,
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the integration of its MrSID® Generation 4 Decode SDK (MG4 DSDK) into GeoCue Corporation’s LP360 for ArcGIS™ and other LP360 software applications. GeoCue Corporation, which is the parent company of QCoherent Software LLC, offers the
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Avineon, Inc. has been awarded 2010’s Geospatial Technology Innovation for 3D Modeling by the Geospatial World Forum. This award recognizes Avineon’s breakthrough efforts in developing 3D tracing software. Avineon was selected for this award by an international panel of geospatial experts out of 173 submissions in various GIS related categories.Bringing the best in the geospatial
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Canada’s minister of National Revenue, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Atlantic Gateway says he’s impressed with the work being done by a high-tech firm based in the capital. Fredericton MP Keith Ashfield toured local software giant Caris on Tuesday in what was described as an information exchange visit. “They are a world-class company, and I
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
The GIS Centre of Excellence within the Office of Agriculture and Geoinformation (ALG) in Switzerland has recently purchased GeoExpress 8 through German reseller, GAF AG. The Centre is an agency of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and employs around forty people to manage the agriculture and environmental resources of the region. This work
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Farallon Geographics, a San Francisco GIS services firm and OpenGeo, a global leader in open source geospatial solutions, announced that Farallon Geographics has added the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to its product offerings and now provides support to local OpenGeo Suite users.
