Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Registration for the “Remote sensing of wildfires” contest has started. The contest is carried out on GIS-Lab.info platform, the leading Russian Internet-resource, dedicated to practical aspects of remote sensing and to geographical information systems. Contest participants are to develop methods of automated or semi-automated detection of burned areas within 2000-2011 period using remote sensing data. The
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Heavy rainfall occurred across most of Australia between November 2010 and early February 2011 causing extreme flooding across eastern Australia, particularly in Queensland and Victoria. During the flood emergencies, Geoscience Australia provided satellite imagery and derived mapping information to support the emergency response and recovery efforts. These images came from more than twenty different satellites
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Optech Incorporated and Cardinal Systems are pleased to announce a joint development initiative covering Cardinal's VR suite of photogrammetric and lidar processing products. Under the terms of the agreement Optech and Cardinal Systems agree to jointly enhance existing software and develop new software solutions for Optech’s industry-leading line of imaging products, including Optech’s new line
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has chosen Bentley’s Power GEOPAK all-in-one civil engineering design software to replace CAiCE as its standard statewide survey software. MDOT made this decision after Bentley’s successful benchmark in mid-April 2011 against Autodesk’s AutoCAD Civil 3D application. Power GEOPAK provides civil transportation professionals with
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan. Under the plan, one preferred stock purchase right will be distributed for each share of common stock held by stockholders of record on June 22, 2011. The rights plan has a one year
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
In the share sale 2011 937 employees submitted subscription orders for a total of DKK 23.8 million. COWIfonden, as part of its objective to support COWI, submitted subscription orders for DKK 18.0 million.According to the prospectus published, payment of the subscription price of shares with a three-year vesting period (cash shares) is to be made
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Decision support tools for agriculture often require meteorological data as inputs, but data availability and quality are often problematic. Difficulties arise with daily solar radiation (SRAD) because the instruments require electronic integrators, accurate sensors are expensive, and calibration standards are seldom available. NASA’s Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (NASA/POWER; power.larc.nasa.gov) project estimates SRAD based on
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
AVEVA announced today that registration for the AVEVA World Summits 2011 is open. The Summits will be held in Copenhagen 17-19 October, Rio de Janeiro 25-27 October and Singapore 8–10 November. The AVEVA World Summits provide a collaborative forum for managers and decisions makers, with responsibility for strategic business operations. The Summit agenda is designed to
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, has promoted Uyen Dinh to vice president of Government Affairs. Dinh joined GeoEye in May 2007 as senior director of Government Affairs and is responsible for the overall development and execution of all government relations programs.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
More than a quarter of the local authorities in England and Wales have begun using a free online service from emapsite that supports the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA). Contractor Link by emapsite is a self-service portal for contractors. It enables government organisations to better manage their contractors’ access and use of licensed mapping. The
