Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
We expect about 200 highly interesting presentations from all over the world, keynote speeches by Henk OVINK (NL), Bernd STREICH (DE) and TSENG Tse-Fong (TW), input from leading decision makers and experts from the Ruhr-area and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as tours on world heritage site Zollverein. Like always we will try our best to arrange – hopefully with support of the participants – attractive social events and a good mood and creative spirit during the conference.
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
We warmly welcome you to the FIG 2011 Working Week which will take place in Marrakech, Morocco from 18thto 22nd May 2011. This FIG conference will be held at the famous Palais de Congrés in Marrakech. We expect more than 1,000 participants from more than 80 countries to attend this only FIG conference in 2011. The Working Week is hosted by
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, is going to attend ‘Map Malaysia 2011’ in Sabah, Malaysia, and ‘Map Middle East 2011’ in Doha, State of Qatar; both are held in April 2011. SuperGeo and its partners will be showcasing the latest SuperGIS software as well as GIS applications in
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Over the years we have offered a range of short courses to NRM professionals. There are/were different courses offering different perspectives on the management of natural resources: adaptive management, decentralised management, community forestry, landscape planning, environmental governance, just to name a few. The wide variety of “glasses” you can put on to analyse the dynamics
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
The deadline to submit abstracts for the 2011 URISA/NENA Addressing Conference has been extended one week to April 11. The conference—for GIS professionals, addressing coordinators, 9-1-1 and emergency response specialists —will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 15-18, 2011. The conference is developed through abstracts submitted through a Call for Presentations. The Conference Committee,
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics very own Samuel Knight is attempting to set a brand new World Record for the longest webinar ever given. This seminar will be an extremely detailed look into the need for proper use of punctuation within metadata. Metadata can be very useful inside geospatial software yet, gets lost in translation without the
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
The first round of UN climate change negotiations since the Cancun summit in December, being held in Bangkok from April 3-8, will start on the work plan agreed at Cancun for 2011. The aim of the meeting is to build on the Cancun agreements and to work towards establishing a new global climate change regime,
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Registration is now open for The National Map Users Conference (TNM UC) and GIS Workshop. The GIS workshop will be May 10-11 and TNM UC will be May 12-13, 2011 in Denver, Colo. For complete information, registration, hotel and other details, please visit the website.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
The Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) will be holding its first Regular Session of 2011 on 4–5 April in Mexico City to discuss upcoming CEC cooperative work, the Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters (SEM) process and the environmental impact of freight transportation in North America. JPAC—15 citizens appointed by
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Four teams of university students have been selected to conduct their experiments in a series of parabolic microgravity flights on the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. The research ranges from helping restore balance in humans to understanding how planets form. The students were chosen from 13 teams whose proposals were short-listed in September 2010. During the final
