Sunday, December 5th, 2010
The German Federal Government adopted a new space strategy at its cabinet meeting on 30 November 2010. The paper defines the fundamentals of how the high-technology space sector is to develop over the next few years at a national level and in so doing, how it must respond to changing political and societal conditions on
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket will deliver three Glonass-M satellites into the orbit on Sunday, completing the forming of the global navigation system, a representative of Russian space agency Roscosmos has said. The rocket will blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 03:25pm local time (10:25 GMT), he said. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ESDIN was well represented at the GSDI 12 conference in Singapore in October. Laila Aslesen (WP 5) shared her thoughts at the end of her team’s work on licensing models for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. The presentations below take you from the background through the approach to the conclusions of this work. They then go on to
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), as part of its lead role in the Architecture Implementation Pilot for theGlobal Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), announced videos showing the remarkable progress that has been made in implementing GEOSS. GEOSS is a major multi-year program of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The videos were prepared for
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
GeoFly GmbH has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp photgrammetric digital aerial camera system. Innovative hardware, electronics and software result in a lighter, more compact camera system, so it is suitable for smaller aircraft and projects requiring a rapid response. However, the camera provides the same high geometric accuracy,
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Envista Corporation announced it has secured $4.1M from seven investors toward a $7.6 million equity-based funding round. The company’s initial investors included New England-based Borealis Ventures (Hanover, NH), Egan-Managed Capital (Boston, MA), and Point Judith Capital (Providence, RI). Envista will leverage the capital to fund business expansion and product development to meet global demands to
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
DigitalGlobe announced it has finalized the judging panel for its inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge. The judges, respected scientists from around the world, will be responsible for reviewing final submissions and selecting the 15 papers that best exemplify sound science and innovative applications of 8-band, high-resolution imagery. Winners will be announced on December 16 and invited
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
UC Santa Barbara Professor Michael Goodchild, a global pioneer in geographic information science, is the first scholar appointed to the Jack and Laura Dangermond Professorship in geography. The Dangermonds established the endowed chair with a major philanthropic gift to advance the development of geographic information system technology in an academic environment. They are co-founders of Environmental
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
WhiteStar Corp has named LandWorks as a reseller of the WhiteStar Exploration Cube™ product line. A developer of land asset management software for the oil and gas, pipeline and utility industries, LandWorks will bundle the WhiteStar map products with its popular LandWorks GIS software.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Esri has released a mobile geographic information system (GIS) API for the new Microsoft Windows Phone platform. The ArcGIS API for Windows Phone can be used to create interactive applications that combine mapping resources, such as maps, locators, and geoprocessing models, with Windows Phone technologies and frameworks, such as the application bar, controls, and location. The
