Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Focusing on the ability of engineering and geospatial firms to expand their professional services into the international market, the Geospatial & Engineering International Conference, announced today the program for the two-day conference to be held November 13-14, 2013 in Alexandria, VA.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
In just two weeks, the GIS community will convene at GIS-Pro 2013: URISA’s 51st Annual Conference for GIS Professionals (September 16-19). They will share ideas about GIS leadership and management, ROI, strategic planning, collaboration and best practices, and learn about BI technologies, HTML 5 and REST, overcoming web mapping application challenges, and GIS in the
Monday, September 2nd, 2013
The geo industry is facing increasing challenges. It spans a broad range of careers, yet there are not enough qualified specialists to be found. “The shortage of young recruits is most acute in the fields of geodesy and land management,” says Prof. Karl-Friedrich Thöne, President of the German Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management
Friday, August 30th, 2013
Exprodat; the oil and gas GIS services, software and training supplier; has signed a partnership with leading petroleum training services provider PetroSkills, to deliver a series of Exprodat’s popular Petroleum GIS data management training courses.
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,
