Thursday, August 26th, 2010
The new version of ArcGIS Explorer, a free geographic information system (GIS) viewer, opens more avenues for users to share geographic information. It also has many new interoperability updates that help integrate it with ArcGIS 10, including direct support for image services, improved support for ArcGIS 10 layer packages and geodatabases, and more ways to leverage ArcGIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Nearing the end of its third month of continuous operation, the International Space Station’s ship-tracking experiment has experienced a marked increase in data quality. Now it operates along with a dedicated satellite carrying the same receiver. The Station’s Columbus laboratory is being used to track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships at sea. AIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Lockheed Martin today congratulated the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the 50-year anniversary of the first Corona photo reconnaissance satellite image from space, which ushered in new space-based capabilities for the nation. First developed as a joint U.S. Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency program to provide surveillance from space
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Computer-generated 3D city models from Bluesky are helping Mott MacDonald deliver safe, sustainable and user-friendly civil infrastructure projects. The highly accurate and detailed models are being used by the worldwide consultancy to give a better understanding of the wind environment around urban infrastructure projects. By creating highly complex engineering models Mott MacDonald simulates the flow
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Simon Thompson, director of global business solutions, Esri, asks retailers to raise the bar and start reflecting local flavors and themes in the stores they open. “On my last drive across Kansas, it wasn’t the wheat fields or the flatness that amazed me but the repetitive retail landscape,” Thompson explains. “It seemed that every small
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
On Wednesday Sweden hosted a meeting of environment ministers on the Baltic Sea environment. Ministers and high-ranking representatives of all Baltic Sea states attended the seminar entitled “Building marine policy on best available knowledge”. This is the first meeting under the Swedish Chairmanship of Baltic Sea cooperation body HELCOM. Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
RapidEye, announced today that over a period of just three months, 95% of the contiguous United States has been imaged. Almost 80% of this imagery was captured by the RapidEye satellites with less than ten percent cloud cover.The campaign, which began May 1 and was completed on July 31, produced an abundance of imagery with many areas covered multiple times.
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Enosat, in collaboration with the Association gvSIG, is going to carry out an online course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing applied to vine-growing for the English-speaking community. This new edition of the course is launched in English, hoping to repeat the success of the previous edition in Spanish. The GIS software used for this
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
OpenGeo, the leader in open source geospatial web services, announces the release of OpenGeo Suite Cloud Edition in collaboration with cloud technology innovator Skygone Inc. OpenGeo Suite Cloud Edition is optimized for cloud infrastructure, with special features preconfigured for scalability, and performance enhancements already installed. Available with a monthly pricing option, there are no up-front
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that Dr. Luis E. Bermudez has been appointed Director ofInteroperability Certification for the Consortium. In his new position, Dr. Bermudez will manage the OGC Certification Program, lead plugfest activities, and support OGC testbeds, pilots and interoperability experiments designed to develop, test and validate specifications for geospatial information. Learn More
