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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

ESA’s GOCE Gravity Satellite Takes a Closer View

ESA’s GOCE gravity satellite has already delivered the most accurate gravity map of Earth, but its orbit is now being lowered in order to obtain even better results. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been orbiting Earth since March 2009, reaching its ambitious objective to map our planet’s gravity with unrivalled precision.

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Avenza Releases MAPublisher 9.1 for Adobe Illustrator

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.1 for Adobe Illustrator which includes a number of new and exciting product enhancements. MAP Web Author now has the ability to export

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Intergraph Introduces ImageStation 2013

Intergraph announces the upcoming release of the ImageStation 2013 software suite as part of Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013. This release provides significant improvements to users engaged in high-volume commercial photogrammetry and production mapping, moving large quantities of raw spatial information to exploitable formats.

Monday, November 19th, 2012

ASPRS 2013 Fellows Named

George Y. Lee and Charles Mondello have been named the 2013 ASPRS Fellow Award winners.  The ASPRS designation of Fellow is conferred on active Society members who have performed exceptional service in advancing the science and use of the mapping sciences (photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying, geographic information systems, and related disciplines).  The designation of Fellow

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Trimble Adds New Features to its Connected Farm Solution to Enhance Farming Operations

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today several new features to further enhance its Connected Farm™ solution. Connected Farm is an integrated operations management solution that provides information exchange across the entire farm. New features include additional viewing capabilities between vehicles operating in the same field, and reports on the productivity and delay of field equipment.

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Clifford W. Greve and Vincent V. Salomonson Selected as ASPRS Honorary Members

Clifford W. Greve and Vincent V. Salomonson have been selected as the next Honorary Members of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). Their nominations were recently approved by the ASPRS Board of Directors. This is the highest award bestowed by ASPRS and there can be only 25 living Honorary Members of the

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Astrium Americas Established to Provide Space Capabilities to the North American Market

Astrium, a world leader in space technologies, and EADS North America today jointly announced the creation of Astrium Americas, America’s newest space company. A subsidiary of EADS North America, Astrium Americas will bring Astrium’s broad global space capabilities to North America.  Astrium Americas will also provide government customers with secure satellite communications services formerly marketed

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Esri Supports Development of UCSB Ocean Use Application

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has now officially launched SeaSketch, an ocean planning tool supported by Esri, the world leader in GIS. Conservationists, planners, and ocean resource managers will use the GIS application and Esri’s ArcGIS Online to plan sustainable ocean use management.

Friday, November 16th, 2012

RapidEye Roll Out: RapidEye Mosaics

RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of five satellites, announced that a new product, the RapidEye Mosaic, is now available. RapidEye Mosaics are a five meter, natural color, seamless orthorectified imagery product using the most recently acquired RapidEye data available.

Friday, November 16th, 2012

How Does Groundwater Pumping Affect Streamflow?

Groundwater provides drinking water for millions of Americans and is the primary source of water to irrigate cropland in many of the nations most productive agricultural settings. Although the benefits of groundwater development are many, groundwater pumping can reduce the flow of water in connected streams and rivers—a process called streamflow depletion by wells. The USGS