Monday, August 5th, 2013
OpenGeo the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, today announced it has hired Jody Garnett, Tom Kunicki and Scooter Wadsworth to its expanding engineering team. Garnett’s hire builds on the company’s track record of bringing together leaders from a wide array of open source projects.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Thanks to a recent initiative of the ASPRS Lidar Division, different segments of the lidar mapping community now have the ability to customize the LAS file format to meet their application-specific needs. The new mechanism that makes this possible is the LAS Domain Profile, which is a derivative of the base LAS v1.4 specification that
Monday, August 5th, 2013
In July, the Center of Space Monitoring of the Southern Federal University received Earth remote sensing data from the Russian medium resolution “Meteor-M” №1 satellite for the first time.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
About 4,000 people are expected to attend the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Minneapolis from Aug. 4 to 9, 2013. The theme of this year’s conference is Sustainable Pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Key factors have been identified that help determine the vulnerability of public-supply wells to contamination. A new USGS report describes these factors, providing insight into which contaminants in an aquifer might reach a well and when, how and at what concentration they might arrive. About one-third of the U.S. population gets their drinking water from
Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the Connected Farm Fleet app built to serve managers and technicians by enabling them to access their fleet information from any location. Using smartphones and tablets, the app enables the fleet management portion of Trimble’s industry-leading Connected Farm Web solution to go mobile. With the app, managers can track the
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced it has entered into an agreement with DigitalGlobe Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, to license its satellite imagery for offline use in Trimble Outdoors mobile apps, allowing outdoor enthusiasts to view and store imagery on their smartphones and tablets.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Esri announced today that it is providing a free developer subscription for its web, mobile, and online tools and services. This new plan includes access to powerful geoservices as well as the ability to host your own data in the Esri cloud as RESTful web services that can be consumed by a wide variety of
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
URISA is pleased to announce the recipients of 2013 URISA Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Awards. Since 1980, URISA’s ESIG Awards have recognized exceptional achievements in the application of information technology that have improved the delivery and quality of government services. URISA congratulates all of the participants in the 2013 Exemplary Systems in Government Award
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
MAPPS, the national association for private sector geospatial firms, recognized ten individuals for their significant contributions to the association and the geospatial profession at an awards banquet held at association’s annual summer conference in Rockport, Maine.
