Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
Persistent dry weather has grown more worrisome in the American West, with nearly two thirds of the region experiencing some level of drought. By most measures, the state of California is suffering through the worst of it. The effects of the dry spell are visible in the mountains, where snow pack is lacking, and now
Friday, February 21st, 2014
Data from Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring and alert system is now available on Esri’s ArcGIS Online GIS cloud service. By using a portal on Esri’s platform to access GFW Global Forest Watch satellite data and crowd-sourced information, people can add powerful maps, datasets, and applications to their forest projects and better analyze
Friday, February 21st, 2014
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the Geographic Calculator 2014. This release features new functionality to display and support EPSG “Area of Use” Polygon data, improved Vertical Coordinate system handling, and a new Land Survey Summary job for generating printed layouts in Canadian survey systems. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization
Friday, February 21st, 2014
The II International conference “Geoinformation Sciences and Environmental Development: New Approaches, Methods, Technologies” will take place on 5-9 May, 2014 in Limassol, Cyprus. Organizers of the Conference are the Southern Scientific Center (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)of the Institute of Arid Zones of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Oceanography Center, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, UNIGEO Consortium, Russia
Friday, February 21st, 2014
Leica Geosystems Inc. and Airborne Hydrography AB today announced the availability of CHIROPTERA II, an innovative LiDAR solution for topographic mapping and shallow water surveying in depths of up to 15 meters (49 feet). The system simultaneously captures the full waveform in both the 35 kHz bathymetric channel and the 500 kHz topographic channel to
Friday, February 21st, 2014
GIS technologies give Council of Agriculture in Taiwan the ability to establish a Cloud-based agricultural information system for easy access to GIS resources and support the nation’s sustainable agriculture.
Friday, February 21st, 2014
When Sentinel-1 is placed in orbit around Earth in a few weeks, it has to perform a complicated dance routine to unfold its large solar wings and radar antenna. Engineers have recently been making sure the moves are well rehearsed.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced two new additions to its airborne LiDAR portfolio. The Trimble® AX60i and AX80 are highly capable, versatile systems that meet the demands of aerial survey operators for corridor and wide area mapping projects. The new airborne systems, together with flight planning and analysis software tools, have been designed to provide rapid
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Esri is a proud sponsor of Code for America’s third annual CodeAcross, which will be held February 21–23. This year’s theme, Beyond Transparency, focuses on making open data actionable. Esri is calling on volunteers domestic and international to share their knowledge and expertise during this event to advance open government initiatives.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Clearer views of waters along the U.S. and Canadian border are now possible with new seamless digital maps. These maps make it easier to solve complex water issues that require a thorough understanding of drainage systems on both sides of the International Boundary.
