Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Monitoring the green roof’s success in reducing runoff is critical to the project, according to Darla Cravotta, the special projects coordinator with Allegheny County. “We can’t talk about the benefits of a green roof without monitoring it,” said Cravotta. “But when we have data, we can encourage other people to build green roofs,” she said.
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
ESA’s SMOS satellite completed its six-month commissioning this week and formally began operational life. This milestone means the mission is now set to provide much-needed global images of soil moisture and ocean salinity to improve our understanding of the water cycle. Read More
Friday, May 21st, 2010
The Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) was awarded to Qassim Abdullah, PhD at the 2010 Annual ASPRS Conference in San Diego in April. This award, the essence of which is practicability, is designed to stimulate the development of the art of aerial photogrammetry in the United States. The selection committee makes its choice based on an outstanding
Friday, May 21st, 2010
ESRI announces that, for the first time, customers have the option to purchase a cloud-based subscription to ArcGIS Server, ESRI’s server-based geographic information system (GIS) software. With this option, users can purchase an annual subscription, which bundles a preconfigured ArcGIS Server instance on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure with 12 months of ESRI technical support
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Today Intergraph announced the expansion of it’s Motion Video Exploitation solution with the introduction of GeoMedia® Motion Video Analyst Professional, a full-motion video analysis product that empowers military, coalition forces and agencies to exploit and analyze full motion video from UAVs and other moving vehicles, and combines with image analysis and surface analysis products to
Friday, May 21st, 2010
MAPPS, a national association of mapping and geospatial firms, applauded the inclusion of a parcel geocoding provision providing for an ‘early warning system’ in S. 3217, the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010,” that passed the U.S. Senate today by a vote of 59-39. The bill makes amendments to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
Friday, May 21st, 2010
The National Water Agency (ANA) will finalize the National Node of the information system of the Guarani Aquifer in up to six months. This is the term for operating the server on which the ANA will bring together all the information for monitoring the Guarani aquifer, as the data about wells supplied by the Brazilian
Friday, May 21st, 2010
1Spatial is pleased to announce the company’s sponsorship of the forthcoming International Standards committee for Geographic Information ISO/TC 211 meeting at the Ordnance Survey Great Britain (OSGB) headquarters in Southampton from 24th to 28th May. The International Standards committee for Geographic Information ISO/TC 211 meeting is the 30th meeting of its kind. It will
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Prelaunch operations with RS-20 rocket continue at Baikonur. The rocket is intended to loft German radio location satellite TanDEM-X.The launch is aimed at disposing RS-20, with an auxiliary purpose to loft the German satellite. The launch from the underground pad is to take place on June 21. TanDEM-X container was delivered to the filling station
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
ESRI Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to Nexen Inc. for leveraging ESRI’s geographic information systems (GIS) to standardize the management of geographic data throughout its organization and improve operations. The award, which recognizes organizations and individuals for their outstanding achievements in the application of GIS, was presented at the 2010 ESRI Canada User
