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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

SuperGIS 3D Earth Server Brings Brand New Map Manipulation for 3D Visualization

Supergeo Technologies, a leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that SuperGIS 3D Earth Server 3.2 Beta is now released. The enterprise solution not only brings whole new map manipulation, but also assists professional users in managing, integrating, publishing, and displaying geographic data in 3D modeling environment.

Monday, February 24th, 2014

SimActive’s UAV Software Selected by Korean Firm DongWon

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that Korean firm DongWon Survey Consultants Co., Ltd has purchased its Correlator3D™ product.  DongWon will also act as an authorized distributor of the software in Korea.

Monday, February 24th, 2014

Esri Recognized by Nation’s Governors for Partnership with New Hampshire

The National Governors Association (NGA) honored Esri with its annual Public-Private Partnership Award today during the opening session of the 2014 NGA Winter Meeting. The award, in its eighth year, recognizes NGA Corporate Fellow companies that have partnered with a governor’s office to implement a program or project that positively affects the state’s citizens.

Sunday, February 23rd, 2014

Drought Stressing California’s Plantscape

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

Global Forest Watch Maps Now Available on ArcGIS Online

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 Releases the Geographic Calculator 2014 with Support and Display of EPSG “Area of Use” Polygon Data

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

R&D Center SCANEX is co-organizer of the II International conference “Geoinformation Sciences and Environmental Development: New Approaches, Methods, Technologies” (GeoiD 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 and Airborne Hydrography AB Launch Next-Generation Multispectral LiDAR Solution for Shallow Water Surveys

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

Cloud-based GIS System for Agricultural Resource Management

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

Sentinel-1 Spreads Its Wings

  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.