Thursday, June 17th, 2010
The Council of the European Space Agency today announced that Jean-Jacques Dordain will continue as the Director General of ESA for a further period of four years. Mr Dordain has served as Director General of ESA since 2003. This third mandate extends his term to June 2015. Read More
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Exprodat Consulting, specialists in implementing GIS technology within the oil and gas industry, has entered into a partnership with Malaysian-based Alliance Geotechnical Services (AGS) to support this expanding and developing industry. AGS will work with Exprodat Consulting to promote, market and sell their innovative and established suite of GIS-based exploration and production (E&P) Team-GIS™ software,
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Aerial survey specialist Bluesky is developing what is thought to be the UK’s first maps of solar energy potential. Created using a variety of high accuracy height data the 3D maps will identify homes and other buildings with roofs that may be suitable for mounting solar panels to generate renewable energy. Bluesky already has access
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Legislation to establish a statewide geospatial coordination council, in Pennsylvania, was introduced June 8 by Rep. Russ Fairchild (R-85). The bill, HB 2300, was introduced with 59 cosponsors and referred to the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness committee. Pennsylvania is one of only three states that do not have a geospatial coordination council. Such a
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Past President Roger Crystal was recently named ASPRS Membership Development Leader. This adjunct staff position was approved at the April 30, 2010 ASPRS Board Meeting in San Diego, California after the ASPRS Membership Committee determined that the ASPRS Regions could use additional help with their grassroots membership recruitment and retention efforts. Read More
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Through the work of our procurement officers located in Africa we have acquired the new 1:50,000 scale topographic map series of Botswana. This map series is published by the Department of Surveys and Mapping (DSM). This map series has a new grid index compared to the previous series and is about two-thirds complete of full
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Reference systems and frames are of primary importance for many Earth science applications, satellite navigation as well as for practical applications in geo-information. A precisely defined reference frame is needed for the quantification of, e.g. Earth rotation and its gravity field, global and regional sea level variation, tectonic motion and deformation, post-glacial rebound, geocenter motion,
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Professor Ian Dowman retired from UCL as a full time Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2009. To mark 40 years of teaching and research at UCL the department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering will host a seminar with international speakers on Monday 28th June, followed by a reception. The topic of the
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that VxWorks has been chosen to run Logica’s Integrity Processing Facility (IPF) check set for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). The IPF, developed and delivered by Logica, is the crucial element that validates the information broadcast by the satellites to safety
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
In Winter, 2010, Leica’s Viva GNSS receivers and integrated surveying system played key roles in a boundary survey that added a lengthy section to Tennessee’s nearly-finished Cumberland Trail. Working in extremely harsh winter conditions-during the 11 weeks of the survey, average daytime temperatures were below freezing, and surveyors endured more than 60 inches of snow
