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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

COM.Geo 2013 Conference Seachable Program Sessions Available

COM.Geo 2013 Seachable Program Sessions are available at COM.Geo 2013 website: http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2013/prog_all.htm. All of presentations is able to be located by key words. In addition, Program At-a-Glance is available on the conference website as well: http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2013/program.htm.

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Blue Marble to Feature Global Mapper at GeoDATA 2013

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the GeoDATA 2013 Seminar in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday, June 12th, 2013. Come and see first-hand the latest enhancements found in Global Mapper 14.2. Some of the major improvements include several scripting updates, improved Volume Measurement tools, a new right-click option to the vector data search dialog, many

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Leica Geosystems Announces Fully Integrated Z/I DMC IIe Large Format Frame Camera for Airborne Operations

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce that the new Z/I DMC IIe large format frame camera series can be operated fully integrated inside a Leica Geosystems aircraft installation. The Z/I DMC IIe is based on the proven sensor design of the Z/I DMC II using large format single CCD technology and includes integrated Novatel GNSS/IMU

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Surprise Species at Risk from Climate Change

Most species at greatest risk from climate change are not currently conservation priorities, finds an IUCN study that introduces a pioneering method to assess the vulnerability of species to climate change. The paper, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is one of the biggest studies of its kind, assessing all of the world’s birds, amphibians

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

TerraGo Helps Partnership for a Connected Illinois (PCI) Bring Broadband to Citizens of Illinois

Partnership for a Connected Illinois, Inc. (PCI), a nonprofit organization that collects and publishes broadband data usage to ensure that all citizens in Illinois have access to the Internet, is using TerraGo geospatial collaboration software and GeoPDF maps and imagery to produce maps of broadband coverage for the state. In addition, it is using TerraGo

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Education and Connections at GIS-Pro 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

Cutting Edge Program to Be Presented at MAPPS Summer Conference July 22-26 in Maine

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

COM.Geo 2013 Microsoft Keynote: A Fresh Look at Mobile Location Sensing

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 Releases FME 2013 SP2 Adding New Capabilities

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

RapidEye Delivers Images of Floods in Germany

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.