Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
Essential education and valuable professional connections will be the takeaways at GIS-Pro 2013: URISA’s 51st Annual Conference for GIS Professionals. GIS-Pro 2013 will take place September 16-19, 2013 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
MAPPS, the association for private sector geospatial firms, today announced the program for the 2013 Summer Conference to be held July 22-26 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, ME. The conference will focus on business, management, marketing, technical, policy, and workforce issues relevant to the geospatial market. The agenda is designed by and for private
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
Dr. Jie Liu, Principal Researcher & SERG Manager, Microsoft Research, will deliver a keynote “A Fresh Look at Mobile Location Sensing” at COM.Geo 2013 conference which will be held on July 22-24, 2013, San Jose, CA.
Monday, June 10th, 2013
Safe Software, makers of FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, today announced the availability of FME 2013 Service Pack 2 (SP2) that includes the latest fixes and updates for FME Desktop and FME Server, plus some exciting new functionality. These added capabilities, as always, enable users to access more data in new ways, but
Monday, June 10th, 2013
Many regions of Germany, and other parts of Central Europe, have been hit severely by flooding in early June in the wake of unusually heavy rain. RapidEye was able to deliver first images of affected areas in Eastern Germany on June 5.
Monday, June 10th, 2013
Aerial photographs are being used to promote and preserve South Derbyshire’s mining heritage. The images, donated by aerial mapping company Bluesky, illustrate the changes in environment in what was once England’s mining heartland. On display at CONKERS, the award winning attraction at the heart of the National Forest, the images form an integral part of
Friday, June 7th, 2013
Intergraph CTO Mark Doherty and senior government IT leaders from across Asia, Europe, Australia and Canada are gathering next week in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for the FutureGov Forum to discuss challenges and solutions in the government sector. FutureGov enables participants to network with national and international peers and partake in industry discussions within three key
Friday, June 7th, 2013
USGS scientists took high-tech sensors typically found in devices such as smart phones and embedded them into a new method to monitor riverbed movements that can help protect spawning habitat for endangered salmon. Developed in cooperation with Seattle Public Utilities for the Cedar River, the new method is published in the Journal of Hydrology.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it now supports ZY-3 imagery within its software suite. Zi Yuan-3, or ZY-3, is China’s first civilian high resolution stereo mapping earth observation satellite. Launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on January 9, 2012, it was declared operational
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Leica Geosystems, the world’s leading manufacturer of airborne mapping solutions, announced today Leica FlightPro, a new state-of-the-art flight management and sensor control system that makes survey flights more effective and effortless for Leica Geosystems and Z/I Imaging as well as third party airborne sensors. It not only reduces stress on the flight crew by highly
