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Monday, February 10th, 2014

Optech to Exhibit at ILMF 2014

Optech, the world leader in high-accuracy lidar 3D survey systems and productivity- enhancing workflow software, is pleased to announce that it will be attending the International LiDAR Mapping Forum 2014 as both a presenter and exhibitor. Held on February 17-19, 2014 in Denver, CO, the forum examines the use of lidar in applications such as

Monday, February 10th, 2014

Flood Chart Aids in Evacuation Decisions

Emergency managers and residents along the Withlacoochee and Little River Basins have a new educational resource to help them better understand floods and the importance of stream gauging.

Monday, February 10th, 2014

The Woodland Trust Deploys its Next Generation Corporate GIS

The UK’s leading woodland conservation charity, The Woodland Trust, has deployed a next generation corporate geographic information system from specialist British software developer, Cadcorp. The system will play a key part in helping the trust to manage its existing woodland sites and in supporting its role as the leading advocate for British woods and trees.

Monday, February 10th, 2014

LizardTech is Exhibiting at the Esri Federal User Conference

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting this week at the Esri Federal User Conference in Washington, D.C. in booth number 315. In addition, the company is scheduled to present at the 8th US Government Geospatial PDF Working Group Meeting on February 13. The meeting will take place

Monday, February 10th, 2014

Ordnance Survey Launches Its 2014 Graduate Recruitment Scheme

Ordnance Survey’s graduate recruitment scheme has launched, offering seven graduates the opportunity to lead the way on developing innovative and inspirational solutions for digital data.

Friday, February 7th, 2014

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Sees ‘Evening Star’ Earth

The rover’s view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth. The images, taken about 80 minutes after sunset during the rover’s 529th Martian day (Jan. 31, 2014) are available at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17936 for a broad scene of the evening sky, and at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17935 for a zoomed-in view of Earth and the

Friday, February 7th, 2014

ScanEx RDC Took Part in the DGI 2014 Conference

On January 21-23, 2014 London became the venue to the annual Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI 2014) conference on geospatial intelligence and geospatial technology. Specialists of ScanEx Research & Development Center attended the event as guests. For 10 years this conference is the world’s largest event in geospatial intelligence technology. More than 800 representatives from leading

Friday, February 7th, 2014

Is Global Warming Hiding Under Water?

Satellite observations of global sea-surface temperature show that a 30-year upward trend has slowed down within the last 15 years. Climate scientists say this is not the end of global warming, but the result of a rearrangement in the energy flow of the climate system and, in particular, how the ocean stores heat.

Thursday, February 6th, 2014

PCI Geomatics Delivers Historical Airphoto Processing (HAP) System to USDA Forest Service

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it has successfully delivered its high-speed and automated Historical Airphoto Processing (HAP) system to the USDA’s Forest Service office in Region 5 (California and Pacific Islands).

Thursday, February 6th, 2014

NASA Maps Earth’s Croplands from Space

It takes a lot of land to grow food for the world’s seven billion people. About a third of Earth’s terrestrial surface is used for agriculture. And about a third of that, in turn, is used to grow crops. Now, a new NASA-funded effort aims to map crop fields worldwide, identify what’s growing where, and