Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Monitoring and control of spring floods propagation on the Russian rivers has been conducted by ScanEx’s specialists with the help of operational satellite data. Space data application enables to assess the scope of disaster, to get real-time forecast with respect to flooding areas, to assess damage incurred and to detect flood-hazardous areas. Specialists of ScanEx
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Fortune 500 company AECOM renewed its enterprise license agreement with Esri, the world’s leading provider of geospatial technology. AECOM provides professional technical and management support services public and private clients in more than 140 countries around the world. Some of its recent projects include the London 2012 Olympic Games, the World Trade Center redevelopment in
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
U.S. Geological Survey field crews are measuring record flooding on rivers and streams across most of Illinois. At least ten USGS streamgages in Illinois that have more than 20 years of record, have measured the highest flood levels ever recorded. More record levels are expected as flooding moves downstream. USGS crews are expected to track
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Location is vital to decision making in supply chain management (SCM) because it is the great invisible common denominator. But when used in analysis, it is far more complicated. That’s why SCM professionals need to master powerful tools such as geographic information systems (GIS) to convert massive amounts of location-based data into business intelligence that
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Scientists have used the technique, called imaging spectroscopy, to learn about water on the moon, minerals on Mars and the composition of exoplanets. Green’s favorite place to apply the technique, however, is right here on the chemically rich Earth, which is just what he and colleagues achieved this spring during NASA’s Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI)
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Specialist software supplied by 3D Laser Mapping is being used to process millions of individual laser scanned measurements in order to help protect and conserve the beaches of Sussex on the south coast of England. The TerraSolid software, purchased by Adur and Worthing Councils, is being used to identify and isolate ground points from data
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
An image from an instrument aboard NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission or LDCM satellite may look like a typical black-and-white image of a dramatic landscape, but it tells a story of temperature. The dark waters of the Salton Sea pop in the middle of the Southern California desert. Crops create a checkerboard pattern stretching south
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) held their first annual service project, Operation Sock Drop, at the 2013 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, March 26 through 28 with great success. The project involved sock donations from conference attendees and an entertaining competition among the 17 ASPRS Regions; all focused on giving back
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
URISA invites experienced GIS professionals of all kinds – particularly those with management experience – to review and comment on a draft GIS Capability Maturity Model (GCMM). The GIS Capability Maturity Model is intended primarily to define the components of an effective GIS operation, as well as to identify the characteristics of a well-managed and
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Supergeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, launches SuperVeyor 2013, the mobile GIS application, for flexible field data collection.
