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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

NASA World Wind Europa Challenge

The Europa Challenge will inspire and challenge Europe’s best and brightest to provide sustainable solutions to the European community. And do this in ways that serve local, regional, national or international interests while also advancing the career opportunities for those who accept the challenge.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

NOAA Receives 2013 Space Achievement Award

NOAA received the prestigious 2013 Space Achievement Award today from the Space Foundation “for its use of space-based systems in making life-saving predictions and issuing early warnings of calamitous weather conditions.”

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

3-GIS wins GISTEC’s Business Partner of the Year Award at GISWORX ’13

3-GIS continued its industry-wide momentum in 2013 after being awarded the 2013 GISTEC Business Partner of the Year Award.  The announcement was made during the 7th Annual GISTEC Excellence in GIS Implementation (EGI) Awards at the GISWORX 2013 conference and Expo held in Dubai.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

National Security Drives Growth for GIS Professionals in Government Sector

Geographic information systems (GIS) is a technology that uses location to bring different types of data together. One of the most important markets for the technology is the government, where it has quickly become the backbone for U.S. national security and a key driver of the technology’s growth.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

GPSi Adds UltraCam Falcon to Digital Resources

GPSi has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase an UltraCam Falcon digital aerial camera system configured with a 17,310 PAN pixel cross track footprint and a 70mm wide angle lens. This is the second UltraCam acquisition for GPSi. The company initially purchased an UltraCamLp in 2009 when it first ventured into

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Researchers Develop Method to Better Predict Severity of Tornado Outbreaks

Weather forecasters would love to be able to predict the severity of tornado outbreaks, giving those in their path potentially life-saving information. Now, using new experimental high-resolution forecast models, researchers have developed a method to help forecasters better predict the severity of tornado outbreaks. A report on this work by scientists at NOAA’s National Severe Storms

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Learn to Work with Esri’s ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS

Esri’s ArcGIS Runtime Software Development Kit (SDK) for iOS gives you the ability to add geographic information system (GIS) functionality to your customized, lightweight apps for Apple iOS devices. To familiarize yourself with this software development kit (SDK), watch Introduction to ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS on April 11, 2013. This free, live training seminar will

Monday, April 8th, 2013

DigitalGlobe Acquires Crowdsourcing Pioneer Tomnod

DigitalGlobe has acquired crowdsourced intelligence pioneer Tomnod (www.tomnod.com.) While the transaction is not material to our financials, it does support our vision of being the indispensable source of information about our changing planet.

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Leica SteerDirect ES, A New Electric Steering Solution for Farmers

Leica Geosystems today released Leica SteerDirect ES, the latest retro-fit electric steering system. Customers can install the assisted steering solution effortlessly into all major brands and models. SteerDirect ES reduces input costs and operator fatigue.

Monday, April 8th, 2013

A New Service “KosmoInspector’: Operational Satellite-based Monitoring of Economic Activities

ScanEx Center has developed and put into operation a new information service “KosmoInspector” intended for operational satellite-based monitoring of economic activities at remote areas and enterprises. In 2011-2013 the “KosmoInspector” service was tested when carrying out control of illegal economic activities projects, illegal domestic wastes dumps, monitoring of forest logging, emergency response, and houses construction