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
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
When the Earth shook with a magnitude of 9.0 off the coast of Japan on Friday, 11 March, Olaf Kranz and his team at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen had to react quickly. In close cooperation with the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, we analysed the
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Exhibitors at GEO-11 have selected the UK’s No 1 GEO Event as the perfect opportunity to launch new surveying and data capture instruments, demonstrate software upgrades and showcase business promotions. Platinum Sponsors Leica Geosystems will use GEO-11 to launch a brand new High Definition Surveying™ 3D Laser Scanner while Faro will be showcasing its own
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Gilberto Câmara, director of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), in Brazil, is between the indicated by the geospatial community for the MundoGEO#Connect Award, in the category “Geo-Technology Personality of the Decade”. Promoted by MundoGEO WebPortal, the interactive awards chooses the best professionals who, for their innovative performance, make this market grow in a
