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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Making Life-Saving Weather Information Available to the Most

December 2, 2015 — As part of its long-standing working relationship with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), ECMWF is offering a reduced-fee licence to enable more national weather services, primarily those from developing and least developed countries, to benefit from its full range of web-based charts.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

New Remote Sensing Handbook Published

December 2, 2015 — A newly published, three-volume “Remote Sensing Handbook” is a comprehensive coverage of all remote sensing topics written by over 300 leading global experts. With 82 chapters, and more than 2000 pages, the handbook is a reference for every remote sensing student, professor, scientist, professional practitioner and expert. The technical handbook includes

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Hexagon Geospatial and Imagem Introduce the Hexagon Smart M.App at COP21 in Paris

NORCROSS, Ga., Dec. 2, 2015 — Hexagon Geospatial and our partner Imagem have been invited by the Institute for Environmental Security to present the Hexagon Smart M.App® at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris. At the annual COP, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol gather at the

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Phase One Acquires Mamiya Digital Imaging (MDI) Assets & Establishes Phase One Japan

COPENHAGEN, December 2, 2015 — Phase One, A/S, the leading provider of open-platform, high-end camera systems and solutions, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Mamiya Digital Imaging Company, Ltd (MDI) and has appointed Makoto Honda as the new president of Phase One Japan. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Farmers Benefit from Satellite Coverage

December 2, 2015 — Farmers can now call on the latest satellite information using the unique TalkingFields service to get the best from their land while cutting the environmental cost. 

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

International LiDAR Mapping Forum 2016 Program Announced

December 2, 2015 (Portland, Maine, USA) — Event organizers announced The International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) 2016 Conference Program today, which can be viewed online here. The 16th edition of the technical conference and expo, taking place February 22-24, 2016 in Denver, Colorado, will focus on the latest airborne, terrestrial and underwater LiDAR as well

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Ready to Code?

December 2, 2015 — Listen up, coders! There will be a new series of lessons showing you how to use our SuperGIS Server JavaScript API. Since the first release of SuperGIS Server 3.2, we have been continuously developing lots of useful APIs to help you build excellent maps. With these APIs, it is so much

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

SuperGIS Cup 2015 awarded to Chien Hsin University

December 2, 2015 — SuperGIS Cup is an annual competition held by Supergeo and Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, with the main purpose of promoting the application of GIS and to provoke geospatial awareness among college students in Taiwan. The competition can be separated into two stages: the initial stage for submitting a project

Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

Measuring Coastal Slope Movements From The Air

December 1, 2015 — Carlos Gonzales from 3D Laser Mapping will explore the capabilities of combining airborne laser scanning and photography as an approach to measure coastal slope movements, during his talk at MMT in Sydney, Australia. (9-11th December, 2015)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

Massive Size LiDAR Data Processing in the Cloud

December 1, 2015 — GeoSignum is excited to announce the launch of the GeoSignum Pointer Web Platform (Release Candidate 1.0), an unique solution that automates the processing of Lidar data in the cloud. With the GeoSignum Pointer web platform, users can now immediately access terabytes of Lidar data via a web browser, create and manage