Friday, August 30th, 2013
Students and educators are invited to sign up for the School Lab to be held at ESA’s largest scientific conference of the year, the Living Planet Symposium. Over 100 students and 90 educators are expected to participate at the symposium, and places are still available.
Monday, August 26th, 2013
This question will be answered by leading experts on satellite images interpretation from different countries, who will take part in the section “Remote Sensing in the Effective Management of Agriculture”. The thematic section with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and regional related ministries will be held October 2, 2013
Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
GIS-Pro 2013 will be held in Providence, RI at the Rhode Island Convention Center from September 16-19, 2013. Student volunteers are needed to assist with registration, monitor workshops and breakout sessions, contribute to various social networks to keep followers afar engaged, and assist with other various tasks and responsibilities as needed by URISA staff.
Thursday, August 15th, 2013
That dusty, tattered atlas on your bookshelf could soon be superseded by a living, online version that uses cutting-edge mapping technology to provide real-time views of the world. Devised by global Geographic Information System (GIS) technology giant Esri, the Living Atlas of the World concept brings together thousands of individual mapping projects uploaded by people
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
About 1700 participants of the Living Planet Symposium are expected in the Scottish capital on 9–13 September. To date, over 1100 people have already registered for ESA’s largest scientific event of the year, and the number is growing. Organised and hosted by ESA with the support of the UK Space Agency, the symposium brings together
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
The man who sent Titanic Director James Cameron to the bottom of the ocean is ready to dive into a new project to map the unknown depths of Australia’s ocean floor. Submariner and intrepid adventurer Ron Allum will present the vision for his new expedition in Brisbane next month at the nation’s largest spatial event,
Friday, August 9th, 2013
On October 2, 2013 the round table “Creating and Operating Small Satellites” will be held in the framework of the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions”. At the round table participants will discuss the development, testing and operation of small satellites as well as their perspectives in Russia and
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics is teaming up with MundoGeo to offer a free Spanish language webinar entitled, Is Low-cost GIS Attainable for Everyone? The webinar, to be held on Tuesday, September 17th, 2013, will demonstrate how low-cost GIS is attainable through the use of Global Mapper, Blue Marble’s affordable GIS software. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation,
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will be the co-organizer of the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions”. The conference will be held in October 1 -3, 2013 in the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” resort hotel. Adviser to the Roscosmos Head Valery Zaichko will deliver during the conference the report: “Russian of Remote
Monday, August 5th, 2013
About 4,000 people are expected to attend the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Minneapolis from Aug. 4 to 9, 2013. The theme of this year’s conference is Sustainable Pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future.
