Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Ashtech® today announced at Intergeo the immediate availability of Web Mission Planning, the first self-contained, completely automatic web-accessible GNSS survey planning tool. Anyone, anywhere can log in at www.ashtech.com and use the survey-planning tool free of charge to determine satellite visibilities. The new tool developed by Ashtech uses Google Earth mapping and is inter-active and completely
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
For the last eight years, NASA Ames Earth Science Division has been participating in a student internship program called DEVELOP. Funding comes through the Applied Sciences Program in the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Head Quarters. It is a training and development program that provides an opportunity for talented science
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Esri today announced a partnership with Ushahidi that will improve the collection and use of crowd-sourced information during large-scale emergencies. Ushahidi is a nonprofit organization that allows local observers to submit reports to the Ushahidi Web platform using their mobile phones or the Internet during a crisis. Esri is providing software, services, and training to
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Ms. Bauojuan Zheng is the Grand Prize Winner of the ASPRS Membership Nomination Campaign in a drawing held October 1. Zheng a student at Virginia Tech, was selected at random from all ASPRS members who recently nominated colleagues for a six-month complimentary membership in ASPRS. The prize is a complimentary conference registration, free roundtrip (domestic)
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
TerraGo Technologies®, a leading provider of geospatial collaboration software solutions, and Procalculo Prosis, Colombia’s leading company for GIS and related technologies, have signed a distribution agreement to sell and service TerraGo’s full suite of software solutions in Colombia. The agreement reinforces TerraGo’s plans for expanding the global distribution of its software, which uniquely generates highly
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development have expanded their successful collaboration with international partners to launch an innovative, web-based environmental management system for the Himalaya region. The partners inaugurated this state-of-the-art regional monitoring system, known as SERVIR-Himalaya, at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal on Oct. 5. NASA Administrator
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Leica Geosystems, a leader in airborne sensor manufacturing, announces the Leica RCD30, the world’s first 60MP medium-format airborne camera to acquire co-registered multispectral RGBN imagery. The new Leica RCD30 Series offers exciting new features, including Forward Motion Compensation, to ensure highest accuracy with “best-in-class” image quality. Read More
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, has been named to receive the Global Citizen Award of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association. The award will be presented on the opening day of the GSDI 12 World Conference, to be held in Singapore October 19–22, 2010. Dangermond, as the recipient, will give the lead Keynote
Monday, October 4th, 2010
Alstom has signed a contract with Guris Construction and Engineering through Guris’s subsidiary, Eolos Wind Energy Generation, for the construction of a new 24MW wind farm in Turkey. The 24MW Senkoy wind farm, to be built near the city of Hatay, in the southern part of Turkey, will comprise eight Alstom ECO 100 wind turbines of
Monday, October 4th, 2010
Even if the experts for geodesy, geoinformation and land management have decided to leave “Avatar” to the film makers and also exercise restraint in joining the virtual worlds and cities of the gaming community, the third dimension is still very much part of their world. This will once again be made evident at the 16th
