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Friday, March 7th, 2014

URISA Issues Call for Presentation Proposals for the 2014 Caribbean GIS Conference

URISA is now accepting presentation proposals for its Seventh Caribbean GIS Conference, taking place October 27-30, 2014 in Curacao. Submissions are due by May 5, 2014.

Friday, March 7th, 2014

Lighting Sensor to be Installed on the International Space Station

Researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., developed a sophisticated piece of flight hardware called a Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) to detect and locate lightning over the tropical region of the globe. Launched into space in 1997 as part of NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), the sensor undertook a three-year baseline

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

PCI Geomatics Signs Education Alliance Agreement with Arabian Gulf University

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announces that it has signed an Education Alliance agreement with Arabian Gulf University in Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The agreement was signed in late 2013 with the cooperation of GISTEC, PCI Geomatics’ exclusive reseller in the region. Under the terms of

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

New Mapping Method for ‘Green Infrastructure’, Europe’s Vital Natural Areas

The EEA report, ‘Spatial analysis of green infrastructure in Europe‘, maps a network of natural and semi-natural spaces and other environmental features in Europe with a good capacity to deliver  ‘ecosystem services’. These include air filtration, erosion protection, regulating water flow, coastal protection, pollination, maintaining soil structure, water purification, and carbon storage. The report also

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

Climate Change a Growing “Threat Multiplier,” Says Pentagon

Climate change is a “threat multiplier” and a critical component of future defense strategy, according to the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review 2014 released yesterday.

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

Blue Marble to Highlight Use of LiDAR Data for Forestry at NERCOFE 2014

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the NERCOFE 2014 Workshop at the University of Maine on March 10-11, 2014.  Throughout the conference Blue Marble will be demonstrating the LiDAR Module for Global Mapper and how it is utilized throughout the forestry industry. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

Pinpointing Sources of Greenhouse Gases

With increasing levels of greenhouse gases causing our climate to change, it is important to understand exactly where these gases come from and how they disperse in the atmosphere. A recent field campaign has shown that a potential new satellite could provide the answers. CarbonSat is one of the two candidates for ESA’s eighth Earth

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

Exprodat Introduces the Member-Only ‘GIS Benchmarking Club’

Exprodat, the UK-based provider of Esri-based petroleum GIS services, software and training, has created an exclusive forum for oil & gas companies to benchmark their geospatial capabilities.

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

Leica Geosystems Launches ComGate10 Wireless Router to Enable Fast and Secure Continuous Deformation Monitoring

Leica Geosystems has announced the launch of its first wireless router for continuous monitoring, the Leica ComGate10. As integral part of Leica Geosystems’ mobile communication solution M-Com, ComGate10 is the first plug and play router on the market that offers users fast and fail-safe wireless data transfer, with the added benefit of a secondary back-up

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

Keystone Purchases Two UltraCam Falcon Systems with UltraNav

Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc., a PASCO Group company, has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase two UltraCam Falcon digital aerial camera systems with the UltraNav GNSS-Inertial Direct Georeferencing + Flight Management System.