Friday, December 6th, 2013
DigitalGlobe saw many changes in 2013, including our combination with GeoEye in February. The combination grew our constellation to five satellites, adding the capability to collect more than one billion square kilometers of imagery to our archive this year alone!
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the GeoCalc 6.7 software development kit (SDK). This release features enhanced speed and memory handling, making the GeoCalc SDK even more powerful for coordinate transformation. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
MAPPS, the association of private geospatial firms, will testify at a Congressional hearing tomorrow to advocate for greater coordination of the Federal government’s geospatial activities, a coordinated effort to inventory the land the government owns, and a reduction of government duplication of and competition with the private geospatial profession.
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
A recent study in Nevada’s Carson Valley by the U.S. Geological Survey confirms that septic tanks are contaminating groundwater in the region with concentrations of nitrates, posing human health risks from contaminated drinking water. Conducted on a larger scale than previous investigations, the study showed that the amount of nitrate contamination is two times greater
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Aerial mapping company Bluesky is supporting a million pound research project into the potential costs and benefits of solar energy in the UK. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), PV2025 aims to answer a number of questions relating to the production of solar energy through photovoltaics across the UK and how
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
1Spatial is proud to sponsor the AGI Student of the Year Award, which will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony in London on 5 December 2013. The industry award is just one of the ways that the AGI, the UK’s geospatial membership body, looks to encourage best practice, innovation and maximum use of geographic
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
ESA’s GOCE satellite has revealed that the devastating Japanese earthquake of 2011 left its mark in Earth’s gravity – yet another example of this extraordinary mission surpassing its original scope. GOCE mapped Earth’s gravity with unrivalled precision for over four years, but nobody really expected the data to show changes over time.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
Less than seven months after launch, Earth-watcher Proba-V is ready to provide global vegetation data for operational and scientific use. Launched by a Vega rocket from French Guiana in the early hours of 7 May, the Proba-V miniaturised satellite is designed to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
Wichmann VDE publishing house, Germany, selected Intergraph SG&I as the 2013 Innovation Award winner for best product. Competing with seven other vendors, Intergraph SG&I was nominated by an independent jury of five geospatial scientists and selected by a large margin of geospatial industry voters.
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
Since 1972, the Landsat program has allowed scientists and analysts to observe the world beyond the power of human sight, monitor changes to the land, and detect critical trends in the conditions of natural resources.
