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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

Esri Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to Collaborate on Promoting Geographical Literacy

In celebration of GIS Day, Esri Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) today announced a collaborative agreement that will advance the organizations’ common goal of promoting geographical literacy. Esri Canada provides the world’s leading geographic information system (GIS) technology, to which 50% of Canada’s publicly-funded educational institutions have access. The RCGS is a non-profit

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

New Book from Esri Press Advances GIS for Economic Development

Applying the geographic approach to problem solving originally proposed by Esri president Jack Dangermond, Economic Development and GIS by J. M. Pogodzinski and Richard M. Kos, AICP, examines the many ways GIS can be used to further economic development.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Learn to Work with Oceanic and Atmospheric Scientific Data in Esri ArcGIS 10.1

Professionals in the oceanic and atmospheric communities often use the popular file format called the Network Common Data Form (netCDF) to create, manage, store, and distribute scientific data. Esri ArcGIS 10.1 works with this file format, reading and writing data that’s stored in netCDF and letting scientists and researchers integrate data related to temperature, precipitation,

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

USGIF Releases “Thinkers Dinner” Series

The “Thinkers Dinner” concept was developed from a need for government to discuss with industry pressing challenges and innovative solutions.

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

Celebrate 50 Years of Geographic Information Systems on November 14

On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, join hundreds of Canadians as they celebrate the transforming power of geographic information system (GIS) technology on GIS Day. This year marks the 50th anniversary of GIS, which was invented by Dr. Roger Tomlinson in Canada in 1962. Dr. Tomlinson conceived the idea of using computers to automate mapping analysis for

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

RapidEye Joins ESA Third Party Mission Program

RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of five satellites announced today that it is now part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Third Party Mission (TPM) Program. Through this program, ESA provides data to the European and international scientific user community, as well as to supplement its own internal projects for research

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

Safe Software and Actian Partner to Continue to Enhance Ingres 10S Geospatial Support

Safe Software and Actian Corporation today announce that as a result of their continued alliance, read/write support for Ingres tables is now a core capability of the FME platform in the FME 2013 Beta.  This development simplifies support in Ingres 10S for the additional geospatial formats offered by FME by eliminating the need for an

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Intergraph Introduces Powerful and Comprehensive Geospatial Server Portfolio

Intergraph announces that the upcoming Intergraph Geospatial 2013 release features a complete server offering to meet an organization’s enterprise needs. The portfolio includes powerful tools for managing data, delivering web services, web mapping, on-demand geo-processing and workflow development and deployment. Utilizing a single web client, Intergraph has streamlined the experience throughout its server offerings. It is

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Bluesky Prepares for Remote Sensing Revolution with New Appointments

Following the acquisition of the world’s first fully integrated LiDAR, thermal and imagery system, Bluesky has made two significant personnel appointments. Dan Taylor joins the UK based aerial survey specialist as Airborne Sensor Operator and will be responsible for managing and operating the state of the art data capture system as well as flight planning for

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Spatial Data Platform for Growth: 1Spatial Signs Ordnance Survey Ireland

1Spatial, a geospatial company which manages the world’s largest spatial data, has signed a contract with Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi). 1Spatial will give OSi the capability to maintain their entire national spatial database and be confident in the quality of the data. Having accurate spatial data will give Ireland a national framework, which will underpin efficient government