Monday, June 7th, 2010
1Spatial is delighted to report that the company is fostering some entrepreneurial spirit amongst young people in the area. A local Girl Guide group based in Arbury and lead by 1Spatial Senior Consultant Claire Rose has been working with members of the 1Spatial Sales team to gain sales and marketing insight in preparation for an
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, and the University of Stuttgart, today announced that Intermap’s highly accurate and uniform 3D road geometry has been selected for the university’s interdisciplinary research project VALIDATE. The VALIDATE research project began in July 2008 with the goal of reducing vehicular CO2 emissions. The 3.7
Monday, June 7th, 2010
INTERGEO is sending out an upbeat message to cities and local authorities that are feeling the pinch financially. The world’s largest conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management is presenting a whole raft of new opportunities and solutions for optimising and improving administrative processes. “Targeted use of GIS in modern administration means that
Monday, June 7th, 2010
The world’s second coldest capital after Ulaanbaatar, Astana is situated deep in Kazakhstan’s northern steppes, where temperatures drop to -40F in the winter, and howling, icy winds blow through from Siberia. Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev however plans to combat the temperatures with the project, named Indoor City, which will be about 2km in circumference, twice
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Optech Incorporated announced today that it has acquired the operations and assets of DiMAC sprl, inventor of the patented DiMAC true Forward Motion Compensation technology. DiMAC has been providing large and medium-format airborne camera systems based on its patented true Forward Motion Compensation technology for more than five years. DiMAC products include the DiMAC ULTRALiGHT+
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Intergraph, the global leader in public safety and security software, has been selected as member of the European Emergency Number Association (EENA), a non-profit organization working on the promotion of the knowledge and efficient use of 112. Two Intergraph® public safety and security executives have also been named to the European Emergency Number Association (EENA)
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Geospatial experts from the world’s largest alliance of agricultural research centers will gather in Nairobi from June 8-12 to develop new strategies for using high-tech mapping and analysis to improve productivity and market access for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Read More
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Many NGOs and development practitioners are hoping to increase their knowledge of project design and development in order to work successfully with community members in developing successful, sustainable forest conservation and restoration projects. In an effort to make our impact training courses internationally accessible, we have launched key courses inexpensively online on project design, adapting
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Tactical Communications, provider of leading technology and services for emergency and disaster communications, today announced an agreement to distribute Surveylab’s Ike1000 series of geospatial field data collection tools in Texas. Texas-based municipal and federal public safety agencies are leveraging emerging GPS and GIS technologies to help measure, monitor, and manage their assets. “The advent of
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The number of native fish and aquatic insects, especially those that are pollution sensitive, declines in urban and suburban streams at low levels of development — levels often considered protective for stream communities, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS study examinee the effects of urbanization on algae, aquatic insects,
