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Thursday, June 21st, 2012

MAPPS Announces Formation of State Chapter in Maryland, Election of Board of Directors

MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the only national association of private geospatial firms, has announced the formation of its fourth state chapter with the establishment of MD-MAPPS in Maryland. The initial Board of Directors will be President Richard Crouse (Richard Course & Associates, Frederick, MD); Vice President Justin Lehman (Axis Geospatial, Easton, MD); Secretary Tim Stagg (AeroMetric, Inc., Easton,

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Dotka Data Selects ERDAS APOLLO to Manage Data for New e-Commerce Site

Intergraph proudly announces that Dotka Data in the Netherlands has selected ERDAS APOLLO to manage its data in conjunction with an exciting new e-commerce project. Dotka Data maintains a large and growing collection of historical aerial photography and maps, reflecting more than 200 years of history in the Netherlands. The collection includes topographic maps from

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Eye on Earth Recognized at Rio+20 as a Top Sustainable Solution

Last night, Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, sustainability legend Gro Harlem Brundtland, IPCC Chair Rajendra K. Pachauri, EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard and 150 VIP guests celebrated the first concrete outcome at Rio+20: The launch of Sustainia100. Esri is proud to announce that Eye on Earth has been chosen for this prestigious

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Esri Canada Partner PCI Geomatics Wins YTA Technology Leadership Award

Esri Canada congratulates PCI Geomatics for being named Company of the Year at the recent York Technology Association (YTA) Leadership Awards event. A longstanding Esri Business Partner, PCI designs and develops geographic image processing software and systems, including GeoImaging Tools for ArcGIS, a suite of tools for processing and analyzing imagery in Esri’s geographic information

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

More than 30 Years of Global Soil Moisture Obesrvations for Climate Applications

Water held in soil plays an important role in the climate system. The dataset released by ESA is the first remote-sensing soil moisture data record spanning the period 1978 to 2010 – a predecessor of the data now being provided by ESA’s SMOS mission.   The datasets are now available to the science community for

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Bluesky Solar Maps Pass the Sunbright Test

Maps of solar potential, created by Bluesky, have been rigorously compared with more traditional site survey data. The field testing, undertaken by solar panel specialists Sunbright Solar in the UK, compared Bluesky’s solar mapping with site surveys on properties that had already had solar panels installed. The ground truth project concluded the Bluesky data provided

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

SuperField 3.1 Releases, Focusing on Lightweight Field Data Collection

SuperGeo officially upgraded and launched the task-oriented mobile GIS software, SuperField 3.1. Compared with SuperPad 3.1, the full-function GIS software containing diverse GIS tools and functions, SuperField 3.1 is especially designed for field workers who only require basic GIS functions to accomplish field investigation effectively.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

IUCN Urges Governments to do More for Nature

Policy-makers must rethink economic growth, promote social equity and ensure environmental protection, says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). Among the key issues are the green economy and an institutional framework in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Universal Support in Rio for Phase-Down of HFCs for Climate Protection

Today UN officials and country negotiators agreed on the final text of the Rio+20 declaration, entitled The Future We Want, which includes a call for the global phase-down of the factory-made super-greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Wyoming Launches a Detailed Energy Map

The U.S. Geolgoical Survey, along with the Wyoming State Geological Survey, have released a detailed energy map of southwestern Wyoming. The map captures details on coal and wind energy resources, along with the infrastructure to transport the energy. The project was developed as a component of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI).