Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
The North American Forum (NAF) of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is organizing the first OGC North American Open Standards Technology Exposition. This free Exposition will be held on September 19 from 9 am to 3 pm in Reston, VA.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Last month, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the agency’s first-ever crowdsourcing initiative to clean and map development data such as guarantees, loans disbursed, and available financing. Volunteers used a simple crowdsourcing tool created with Esri technology to find the required location information. This data can now be easily visualized on
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Wind energy professionals across Europe now have a local source for the exchange of ideas, success stories, and information about geospatial technology for on- and offshore wind farms: the Esri European Wind User Group. The group’s mission is to discuss the best ways to meet daily challenges and learn how proven applications of geographic information
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is a sponsor at the CENTCOM/SOCOM Defense and Intelligence Users Group Meeting at the Embassy Suites, Downtown Convention Center in Tampa, Fla., this week.
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Ayres Associates and Applied Ecological Services have jointly purchased the Leica RCD30 digital imaging camera. While Ayres and AES have extensive experience acquiring, processing, and using aerial imagery, the RCD30 purchase is a first for both, and the two Wisconsin-based firms plan to deploy it in a wide variety
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Based on the recommendation of SuperGeo’s distributor, Spatial Perspective, in South Africa, Geospatial Resources, the consulting company that serves Environmental Services, Town Planning, and Surveying, purchased SuperGIS software to assist the local governments in dealing with environmental problems resulted from mining and implementing the policies of field conservation.
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama and Wiser Company (Wiser), a technology services company headquartered in Murfreesboro, Tennessee announce a strategic partnership. The partnership will leverage both 3-GIS’ award winning thin client mapping solutions for the utility, telecom, and emergency management industries Wiser’s geospatial intelligence solutions to provide continued success to
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Esri today announced the launch of a new web portal that supplies search and rescue (SAR) personnel with GIS tools, educational materials, and a virtual community for learning and sharing.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
The specialized extension, SuperGIS 3D Analyst 3.0, is officially launched to increase more capabilities to SuperGIS Desktop 3.1. SuperGIS 3D Analyst 3.0 provides users with 3D visualization and surface analysis method to input image, vector or elevation data to analyze surface change, query information or calculate visible range of the specific point on the surface.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), will be used August 21-23 to monitor Missouri River bank erosion on the Lower Brule Reservation, S.D. The flights, conducted for a second time by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Environmental Protection Office, will occur along a 7-mile stretch of Missouri River shoreline near
