Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation serving the U.S. Federal market, announces the addition of an incoming Senior Vice President of Geospatial Solutions. Brad Ward joins IGS as Senior Vice President of Geospatial Solutions, a key leadership role within the company that includes responsibility for sales and business development, services project
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Usina Açucareira Guaíra, one of the largest sugar mills in Brazil, recently implemented a SmartAgriculture system for automatic generation of lines for crop rows. SmartAgriculture provides better security and reliability for planting, pulverization and harvesting, and increases the number of planting lines for crop rows per hectare when compared to the conventional method. By using the
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
TerraGo, a leading global provider of location intelligence, geospatial collaboration and field data collection software solutions, is launching a series of technology showcase events featuring interactive sessions that highlight the latest advancements in location intelligence and geospatial collaboration technologies.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Mike Liebhold, Senior Researcher, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future, will deliver a keynote “Unexplored 3D Worlds: The Futures of Focal Plane GIS” at COM.Geo 2013 conference which will be held on July 22-24, 2013, San Jose, CA.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Water is a precious natural resource essential for the survival of life on Earth and when it comes to understanding water – where it is, how much is falling, how to make it work for people – geographic information systems technology (GIS) offers valuable insight.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
MDA Information Systems LLC (MDA-IS) today announced receiving research funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a scalable, extensible, open source platform for data processing, archiving and dissemination. This contract is part of DARPA’s XDATA program, a 4-year research effort that seeks to develop new computational techniques and open source software
Friday, May 31st, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public input on the draft charter of a proposed Standards Working Group (SWG) that will develop a candidate POI (Point of Interest) encoding standard for possible adoption by the OGC membership as an OGC Standard.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D. The event marks the beginning of the satellite’s mission to extend an unparalleled four-decade record of monitoring Earth’s landscape from space. Landsat 8 is the latest in the Landsat series of remote-sensing
Friday, May 31st, 2013
MAPPS, the national association for geospatial firms, today announced the Honorable Paul LePage, Governor of Maine, will provide the opening keynote at the association’s annual Summer Conference on Monday, July 22. Governor LePage will discuss how Maine invests, coordinates, and utilizes geospatial technologies and services, provide a synopsis of the business climate in his state,
Friday, May 31st, 2013
On 31 May, after 10 years of providing advice and information on the environment to policy makers, governments and citizens, Professor Jacqueline McGlade will end her second term as Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA). Her work has shaped Europe’s most important environmental information provider.
