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Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

1Spatial Launches 1Spatial Management Suite (1SMS); Innovative Data Management Environment

  1Spatial, global specialists in spatial big data management, has launched 1Spatial Management Suite (1SMS) at the Asia Geospatial Forum in Malaysia. An innovative data management solution that enables users to efficiently plan, maintain and publish large amounts of spatial data, whilst automating production workflows.

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

Presentation of the Book “Earth from Space: Legislation, Regulation and Judicial Practice” will take place at the International Conference in October

On October 3, at the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions the book “Earth from Space: legislation, regulation and judicial practice” will be presented. The presentation will be held in the Protocol Hall of the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” complex during the section “Remote Sensing Legislation” ( 14:30-16:00 Moscow time).

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

Lockheed Martin Submits Proposal for the U.S. Air Forces’ Satellite Hosted Payload Initiative

Lockheed Martin submitted its competitive proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) initiative aimed at leveraging commercial satellites for some government missions.

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

Ordnance Survey Uses OS OpenData to Create a Minecraft Map of Great Britain

A team developing ideas for future products and services at Ordnance Survey has created a map of Great Britain in the popular Minecraft video game, featuring 22 billion blocks, using their freely available digital map products in OS OpenData, and made it available for download as a new Minecraft world.

Monday, September 23rd, 2013

Roger Tomlinson’s Thinking About GIS, Fifth Edition, Now Available

Esri Press has released the fifth edition of Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. This seminal book on planning and implementing a geographic information system (GIS) is authored by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, widely recognized as “the father of GIS.”

Monday, September 23rd, 2013

Astrium Selected for UK MInistry of Justice Mapping and Monitoring Program

Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has been selected by the UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to provide sophisticated mapping and monitoring services for its new electronic monitoring program. Selected as preferred bidder for the contract, Astrium Services teams based in Far.nborough, Hampshire, will provide the mapping and monitoring expertise to enable the movements of

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

Floods in Far East Region Lead to Revised Legislation

Analysis of the causes of massive flooding in the Far East should lead to a revision of the legislation in order to declassify topographic information and enable access of volunteers to work in emergency zones. Such an opinion was voiced up by the participants of the round table in the “Parliamentskaya gazeta”, which discussed the

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Floods in Colorado: Before and After Landsat Images

Though water levels on the South Platte River were receding, muddy brown waters were still out of the river’s banks near Greeley, Colorado, on September 17, 2013, when the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image. At the time, the river was more than six feet above flood stage, down

Friday, September 20th, 2013

GeoInt 2013 Keynote Preview: Mobile Data Privacy

Technology enthusiasts Shel Israel, CEO of SI Associates, and Robert Scoble, startup liaison for open cloud computing company Rackspace, will share their knowledge of how location-based data is changing the tech world and global conceptions of privacy during a joint keynote presentation Oct. 14 at GEOINT 2013 in Tampa, Fla.

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Oracle Recognizes 1Spatial for Expertise in Oracle Spatial

1Spatial, the spatial big data company which manages some of the world’s largest spatial data, and a Gold level member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), today announced it has achieved OPN Specialized status for Oracle Spatial.