Monday, September 20th, 2010
The National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) has released ALERT2™, a new standard for transmitting data designed to significantly improve accuracy and performance in systems and software used for early detection of floods and other water hazards around the world. ALERT, which stands for Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time, uses remote sensors to transmit environmental data via
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
The Deputy Director of the Town and Country Planning, Mr. Lawrence Dakurah, explained that it has come as a responsibility of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) under the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology (MEST) charged with the mandate of planning and managing the growth and development of cities, town and villages in Ghana. The
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Two major Autodesk partners in the Czech Republic, XANADU and Dagis, today announced a merger of their CAD activities. The new company will be called CAD Studio a.s., and takes over all CAD and GIS activities of the companies Dagis and XANADU, becoming the largest specialised provider of CAD, GIS and PLM solutions in Central
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Bing Maps has added another nice feature, adding public transportation routes to 11 major U.S. cities. It’s a good first step for Bing, though there’s certainly a lot of work left to do to catch up to Google Maps — which covers more than twice that many in California alone and a total of 446 cities
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
At the occasion of the General Affairs Council meeting that took place on 13 September 2010, EU Ministers adopted the proposal for a regulation on the European Earth observation programme (GMES) and its initial operations (2011-2013). The adoption, which follows the agreement reached with the European Parliament in first reading on 16 June 2010, is
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Leica XPro’s new version 4.4 now supports RGB and multispectral 4-band orthophoto generation including near infrared (NIR) from data acquired with the Leica ADS Airborne Digital Sensor HiRes mode, thus offering the most efficient swath width of up to 24000 pixels. Leica XPro, Leica Geosystems’ leading line sensor workflow that provides advanced ground processing from
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Guatemala in the Central America has been seriously damaged due to floods and mudslides caused by heavy rain, which had occurred continuously since beginning of September 2010. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has performed the observation to monitor the state of the damage by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2)* onboard
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Today Esri is launching the 2010 ArcLogistics Government Grant Program, which will award subscriptions to Esri’s new cloud-based vehicle routing solution. One hundred state and local government agencies in the United States will receive grants totaling $450,000 in value. Learn More
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Since the first release of the US Topo series of revised digital topographic maps less than 19 months ago, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has published more than 30,800 7.5-minute cells covering more than 50% of the nation’s land area and setting high standards for production efficiency. “For comparison, the best year the USGS Mapping
Friday, September 17th, 2010
A southwestern Illinois levee official says he welcomes that the U.S. government is again delaying new floodplain maps that could mean higher insurance costs for property owners. But Les Sterman of the Southwestern Illinois Flood Protection District Council says the region’s issues with how the mapping is being done — and the potential fallout — could
