Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Ron Beck, a scientist for the U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program, will discuss the ways in which satellite observations are documenting dramatic changes in Earth’s surface features in a public lecture on Thursday, July 29. From detecting shifting patterns of land use and the harvesting of natural resources to examining the effects of
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
How are the methods and ideas of ecosystems services to be applied in practice? Many people see the idea of ecosystem services as some kind of new and all embracing panicea in relation to assessing, understanding and promoting projects. In reality ecosystem services methodology is very closely related to other economic assessment methods; this conference will explore this relationship in
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Land remote sensing data can be effectively used by ecologists to understand ecosystem dynamics and to expand site measurements to larger scales. This workshop will focus on land processes, human dimensions, and other climate and environmental data available through the NASA data centers. Spatial analysis, subsetting, visualization, and online data ordering tools will be featured. Read More
Monday, July 26th, 2010
The HUMBOLDT Open Day will take place on 28th September 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP). The programme is organised by the consortium of the HUMBOLDT project in cooperation with the VESTA-GIS project. The four-year EU project HUMBOLDT contributes to the implementation of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) that
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
By the middle of the month it was already looking like July 2010 was set to be Germany’s hottest July since records began. In towns and cities in particular, it has stopped cooling down overnight, with tropical temperatures of over 25 degrees Celsius virtually ruling out a good night’s sleep. The extra strain such conditions
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
During this session, Lindsay will discuss the changes that were made to Fledermaus and DMagic in Version 7, which workflow is best for different scenarios, and provide a brief demonstration of each workflow. Space is limited for the webinar, so please register early. Due to the demand, we ask that organizations who have multiple people
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
We are getting closer to the conference dates, Sept. 6th – 9th, and we are pleased that the interest is still very high.More than 500 people have already subscribed and we are confident to reach 1000 in time for the event. In the Latin cultures we are famous to be late subscribers.A list of the
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Abstract Submissions close on Wednesday 1st September 2010http://eblast.arinex.com.au/eblasts/view/20100623_abstract_submission_reminderDon’t miss out on the opportunity to take part in the program for the 34th International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment. Submissions are open for oral presentations, poster presentations and plenary sessions (by invitation only). For detailed information on abstract submission guidelines, themes, and to download
Monday, July 19th, 2010
A 5-day short course on the “World History of Water Management” will be offered in September 2010, drawing both on historical experiences from different parts of the world and on experts from the International Water History Association (IWHA) and the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). Many of the experts are involved in the
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Please join us for this one hour webinar to learn about all of the new features and functionality available in the IDL 8.0 release. With the latest release you will find major IDL language enhancements that will streamline your analysis and application development tasks. You will also have access to an entirely new graphics system that is very powerful yet
