Friday, March 22nd, 2013
The recent sequestration of U.S. Government funds and other near-term budget uncertainties have made it necessary for NOAA to cancel the Coastal GeoTools 2013 Conference to be held in Myrtle Beach, SC, March 25-28. We are currently working with the conference contractor to implement this cancelation. We apologize for any financial burden this decision causes
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
MDA’s Information Systems group announced today that it has signed a contract to provide the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) with RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2 data to create up-to-date ice charts and reports that are sent via satellite to ships navigating the ice-infested Greenland Sea.
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of five satellites, announced today that it will attend ASPRS and present its Mosaics product at the ASPRS User Group Meetings.
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Cutting-edge imagery technology that has guided rescue efforts during the world’s worst natural catastrophes could be the lynchpin in Australia’s next disaster response and recovery, according to a visiting international specialist. The world’s most advanced imagery software – known as ENVI – compiles and analyses data captured from remote sensors before, during and after a
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it has introduced the Historical Airphoto Processing Workflow, also known as HAP. The HAP workflow was designed to work with historical airphotos, providing a semi-automated means to align, orthorectify, and mosaic from hundreds to thousands of digitally scanned airphotos.
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Safe Software, makers of FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, today announced the release of the FME 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that includes the latest fixes and updates for FME Desktop and FME Server, but also impressive new capabilities. Adding to the story of the latest version of FME, SP1 introduces functionality that
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
NASA and the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which was launched Feb. 11. The natural-color images show the intersection of the United States Great Plains and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and Colorado. In the
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
MDA’s Information Systems group (MDA) announced today that its Geospatial business unit will deliver RADARSAT-2 data products and change monitoring services to the Ukraine Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Ministry) to support environmental monitoring and emergency response services in key areas within the Ukraine.
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
ZEB1, the world’s first truly mobile handheld rapid laser mapping system has been used to explore Aboriginal cave markings in South Australia. The strange markings, called finger flutings, were thought to have been left in the Koonalda Cave between about 30,000 and 10,000 years ago. Created by hands being dragged along established grooves in the
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Supergeo Technologie announced that SuperPad 3.1 was selected by Comune di Ovodda to complete field data collection for accurate field boundary and prosperity assessment. Today, economic development and governmental policy were the main driving factors of land-using change. In this procurement, Superpad 3.1, the mobile GIS software, is utilized by Comune di Ovodda to frequently
