Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
Jeff McKenna, the past president of the OSGeo foundation and the co-founder of the international FOSS4G conference, was honored on Friday with the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during closing ceremony of the FOSS4G-2016 conference in Bonn, Germany. The award is presented in recognition of Jeff’s deep passion for
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
The next 2016 testing window for the GISCI Geospatial Core Technical Knowledge Exam® as a part of the GISP Certification has been scheduled for December 3-10, and will be administered by PSI Online through their worldwide testing facilities in a computer based testing (CBT) format. The Exam application form and testing center locations are now
Monday, August 29th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to attend its 100th Technical and Planning Committee Meeting, which will be sponsored by CAE and held at the University of Central Florida from September 19-23, 2016. This meeting will be partly framed by the theme of Modelling and Simulation, and the week’s special events include the usual host of Domain
Monday, August 29th, 2016
The 17th annual International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), taking place in Denver, Colorado, USA, February 13-15, 2017, has announced a Call for Papers and invites interested parties to submit their abstracts by September 1, 2016 online here. ILMF is a technical conference and exhibition focused on surveying and mapping technologies including aerial, mobile and bathymetric
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
Des Plaines – URISA Is pleased to announce the recipients of 2016 Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Awards. Since 1980, URISA’s ESIG Awards have recognized extraordinary achievements in the use of geospatial information technology that have improved the delivery and quality of government services. The award competition is open to all public agencies at the
Monday, August 22nd, 2016
To commemorate the nation’s first chief geographer, the USGS established the Henry Gannett Award in 2009. As a new addition to the Gannett Award, the National Geospatial Program (NGP) has established the Henry Gannett internal award to recognize outstanding contributions to the geospatial community by a USGS employee. The first recipient of this intra-bureau award
Friday, August 19th, 2016
Aichi – FARO Japan, Inc. (Head office in Aichi, Chief Commercial Officer: Joseph Arezone) announced that its 3D laser scanner, FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D, as well as its handheld scanner, FARO Scanner Freestyle3D, were used as cutting-edge crime investigation equipment in the movie “Himitsu – THE TOP SECRET”, which was recently released on 6 August
Friday, August 19th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced its Location Powers: Big Data workshop, occurring on Tuesday 20th September in Orlando, Florida. The Location Powers: Big Data workshop will bring together leading developers of geospatial big data systems. This is an opportunity for participants to hear about the latest developments in the field, as well as
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
BELGIUM, Leuven: Luciad announced further updates to the speaker programme for INTERACT 2016 today. Alexis Letulier, Head of IT at the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen), has joined the line-up of renowned experts at Luciad’s international geospatial conference. Letulier’s presentation “Delivering GEOINT, from products to services” will illustrate the SatCen vision with concrete examples of
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
Grand Forks, ND —North Dakota’s role in NASA research aimed at the safe integration of small and large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the national airspace will be discussed during the 10th Annual UAS Summit & Expo Aug. 22-24 at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, N.D. On Tuesday, attendees will hear from John Cavolowsky,
