Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
To better connect educators and students who are interested in NOAA’s education and science resources, NOAA has just completed a major update of the agency’s primary education resource portal, http://www.education.noaa.gov. This website serves as a portal to lesson plans, educational multi-media, data sources, career profiles, and other education content from across the agency.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Standard Version 2.0. The SOS candidate interface standard is designed to provide access to sensor observations, sensor descriptions, anddigital representations of observed features in an interoperable and standardized way. Further, the SOS 2.0 candidate standard provides means to insert
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
RapidEye announced today that it has signed an extension of the data supply agreement with the geo-informatics company EFTAS of Münster, Germany, which began in 2008. The agreement allows both companies to use RapidEye data as a base for complex analysis when the timeliness of the data offers new business opportunities. With its many years
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph®, has been officially established to serve the company’s U.S. Federal customer base. This new, independent subsidiary will contain all of Intergraph’s federal agency and Intelligence community classified businesses: Defense & Intelligence; Federal Solutions and Intergraph Services Corp. As a result of the Oct. 28, 2010
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure – GSDI 12 World Conference took place in Singapore from 19 to 22 October 2010. The partners organizing this conference included the GSDI Association, the Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia & the Pacific (PCGIAP) and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). “Governments at all levels in all countries depend on
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Design professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction industries will be able to save time, improve collaboration and reduce review cycles using the industry’s first web-ready large-format printing solution – available today. The new HP ePrint & Share and HP Designjet T2300 eMultifunction Printer (eMFP) solution allows design teams to easily access, share and print large-format project files
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Calgary’s downtown is dense with 20 and 30-story buildings, holding 50% of all Calgary jobs. Parking is expensive, upwards of $20 per day. A new planning concept, the downtown PRT circulator, offers many unique benefits: enhances the existing LRT system re-connects a city split by railroad tracks stretches downtown to encompass the Eau Claire area
Monday, November 1st, 2010
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the release of version 8 of GeoExpress® image compression software at the GEOINT 2010 Symposium in New Orleans this week. GeoExpress 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and manipulate satellite and aerial imagery, introduces
Monday, November 1st, 2010
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, has announced the appointment of Terry Moloney as its new President and CEO succeeding Dr. Robert Moses. On behalf of the Board of Directors, PCI Chairman, David McFadden addressed employees last week announcing this appointment. As he mentioned in his communiqué to staff, in
Monday, November 1st, 2010
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) today announced the launch of the new CDP Cities program, which will provide a system for cities worldwide to report on their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related strategies. CDP Cities, in partnership with the C40 and the Clinton Climate initiative (CCI)*, has asked the largest cities in the world committed
