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Monday, July 9th, 2012

Canadian Tire Integrates Spatial Intelligence into Business Analysis Using Esri Technology

Retailers with a large physical footprint need access to timely and consistent information about their operations to effectively manage their business. To address this challenge, Canadian Tire is centralizing its location-based business data using Esri’s enterprise digital mapping technology also known as a geographic information system (GIS). This will streamline data management and improve access to

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

United States Leads on Whale Conservation

This week the United States announced new whale conservation initiatives and led the effort to promote conservation work at the 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). 

Friday, July 6th, 2012

SSTL Announces exactView-1 Satellite Launch Date

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is announcing the planned launch of exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built, on 22nd July by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. exactView-1 (previously known as ADS-1b) was built under contract for  exactEarth and will become the fifth deployed satellite

Friday, July 6th, 2012

Eumetsat Joins the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’

Extreme weather such as hurricanes, floods and even excessive heat or cold claims lives every year. The European body that monitors weather and climate from space has now joined international partners to help prepare for disasters.

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Esri Maps the Impacts of Recent Storms

Explore the impacts of the recent storms with the Esri Story Map. Preconfigured views for Washington, D.C. and Baltimore provide an in-depth look at vulnerable populations and health care access in these metropolitan areas.

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

OGC Requests Web Map Service Clients (WMS) Reference Implementations

To support compliance testing, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations for client software that implements the OGC Web Map Service (WMS) 1.3 Interface Standard. Development and testing of WMS 1.3 Reference Implementations will be coordinated and managed as part of the Compliance and Interoperability Testing & Evaluation (CITE) Thread in this year’s major

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Retires

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has put the GIOVE-A satellite into retirement, ending a successful extended mission for the European Commission’s Galileo satellite navigation programme under the supervision of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Biomass Burning Really Heats Things Up

Emissions from forest fires and other biomass burning has a greater impact on global warming than previously understood, according to a new study.

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Geospatial Technology Can Light Up Electric Utilities

Advanced geospatial technology is crucial if Australian utilities are to tackle the industry’s biggest challenges, according to a leading international geo-utilities expert.  Bill Meehan, Global Director for Utilities at Esri – the world’s largest GIS software company – was in Australia this week to address the region’s top utilities on the issue of spatially enabling

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Singapore’s National Environment Agency Collaborates With IBM To Improve Environmental Services Related To Air, Weather And Public Health

The National Environment Agency (NEA) and IBM today announced a three-year research collaboration and signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) under which IBM researchers will work with NEA to develop advanced modelling and predictive capabilities to address key environmental concerns in Singapore such as air quality, extreme weather events, dengue outbreaks and food poisoning incidents.