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Monday, September 30th, 2013

From the Corn Belt to Canada, RapidEye Completes Its North American Agricultural Imaging Campaign

RapidEye announced today that its North American agricultural imaging campaign has been completed successfully. The campaign, which ran monthly from May 15, 2013 through September 14, 2013, generated more than 16 million km² of cloud-free imagery over 3 million km² spanning twenty-eight US states and three Canadian provinces.

Saturday, September 28th, 2013

Crisis Teams in Europe Receive Satellite Flood Maps via the Internet

Building on its use of satellites for responding to disasters, ESA has helped to create a service that makes flood maps available simply via the Internet.

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Astrium’s Pleiades Satellite Photographs New Island from Pakistan Quake

Pleaides the very high resolution satellite manufactured and operated by Astrium, photographed the new island of Zalzala Koh from its orbit 695km above the Earth on 26 September 2013.

Friday, September 27th, 2013

California Aquifer Study Finds High Contentration of Nitrates in the Groundwater

Nitrate was detected at high concentrations in 10 percent of the aquifer system used for public supply in coastal areas of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report. Trace elements, such as naturally occurring arsenic and molybdenum, were found at high concentrations in 27 percent of the

Friday, September 27th, 2013

OGC and USGIF Invite Public to See How Open Standards Integrate Geospatial Services with Modeling and Simulation

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Working Group invite the public to attend a demonstration of new developments in technology and capability to rapidly discover, transform, and stream geospatial data from Internet sources into Modeling and Simulation applications using open standards.  

The

Thursday, September 26th, 2013

Locating the Future Conference – At the Intersection of GIS and 9-1-1

URISA and the National Emergency Numbering Association (NENA) have once again partnered to present the preeminent conference about addressing in North America. Since 1996, addresses have been the leading theme of this annual conference, tackling important topics such as Census programs, address standards, legal issues with addresses and, most recently, NextGen9-1-1 and the importance of

Thursday, September 26th, 2013

Call for Papers Now Open for 2014 Esri UC

Esri is now accepting user presentations for the 2014 Esri International User Conference, July 14–18, in San Diego, CA. Each year, the Esri UC features more than 900 user presentations ranging from technical best practices and success stories to discussions about cutting-edge research and the future of geospatial technology. Presenters can choose from more than

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

1Spatial Launches 1Spatial Management Suite (1SMS); Innovative Data Management Environment

  1Spatial, global specialists in spatial big data management, has launched 1Spatial Management Suite (1SMS) at the Asia Geospatial Forum in Malaysia. An innovative data management solution that enables users to efficiently plan, maintain and publish large amounts of spatial data, whilst automating production workflows.

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

Presentation of the Book “Earth from Space: Legislation, Regulation and Judicial Practice” will take place at the International Conference in October

On October 3, at the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions the book “Earth from Space: legislation, regulation and judicial practice” will be presented. The presentation will be held in the Protocol Hall of the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” complex during the section “Remote Sensing Legislation” ( 14:30-16:00 Moscow time).

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

Lockheed Martin Submits Proposal for the U.S. Air Forces’ Satellite Hosted Payload Initiative

Lockheed Martin submitted its competitive proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) initiative aimed at leveraging commercial satellites for some government missions.