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Monday, September 30th, 2013

Exprodat Expands Sales Team with Specialist Account Manager

Exprodat, the GIS oil and gas services, software and training supplier, is extremely pleased to announce that Frauke Diehl has joined the company in the role of Account Manager.

Monday, September 30th, 2013

Jeff de La Beaujardière Receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Frascati, Italy, Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhD, received the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award is awarded each year to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGC’s vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the world’s information systems.

Monday, September 30th, 2013

Optech Announced a New LiDAR Mining Monitoring Solution

Optech announces the upcoming release of the Gexcel Open Pit Mine Monitoring System (OPMMS) for the Optech ILRIS Terrestrial Laser Scanner. Incorporating the combined expertise of Optech and Gexcel Srl, an Italian software solutions company, ILRIS users can now completely automate operations and data processing tasks while controlling the ILRIS remotely through an innovative web-based

Monday, September 30th, 2013

Learn How to Deploy Web Maps and Apps with Esri Portal for ArcGIS

Your organization can use Esri Portal for ArcGIS, an extension to ArcGIS for Server, to create, manage, access, and share geographic content such as maps and apps using your on-premises or private cloud infrastructure.

Monday, September 30th, 2013

RapidEye Shows Satellite Views of Earthquake Created Island

  RapidEye’s satellites have captured something truly rare, a new island. After the deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Pakistan, an island was discovered in the Arabian sea, off the coast of Gwadar in Baluchistan Province. The island, made up of hardened mud and rocks, is approximately 170 meters wide and up to 16 meters high.

Monday, September 30th, 2013

American Sentinel University Details Importance of Enterprise Geospatial Strategy at GIS in the Rockies 2013

American Sentinel University will be a featured participant and key sponsor at the upcoming GIS in the Rockies 2013 – Local to Global: Geospatial on the Move conference Oct. 9-10 at The Cable Center in Denver, Colo.

Monday, September 30th, 2013

From the Corn Belt to Canada, RapidEye Completes Its North American Agricultural Imaging Campaign

RapidEye announced today that its North American agricultural imaging campaign has been completed successfully. The campaign, which ran monthly from May 15, 2013 through September 14, 2013, generated more than 16 million km² of cloud-free imagery over 3 million km² spanning twenty-eight US states and three Canadian provinces.

Saturday, September 28th, 2013

Crisis Teams in Europe Receive Satellite Flood Maps via the Internet

Building on its use of satellites for responding to disasters, ESA has helped to create a service that makes flood maps available simply via the Internet.

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Astrium’s Pleiades Satellite Photographs New Island from Pakistan Quake

Pleaides the very high resolution satellite manufactured and operated by Astrium, photographed the new island of Zalzala Koh from its orbit 695km above the Earth on 26 September 2013.

Friday, September 27th, 2013

California Aquifer Study Finds High Contentration of Nitrates in the Groundwater

Nitrate was detected at high concentrations in 10 percent of the aquifer system used for public supply in coastal areas of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report. Trace elements, such as naturally occurring arsenic and molybdenum, were found at high concentrations in 27 percent of the