Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
Intergraph announces the appointment of T-Kartor as a channel partner in Sweden. As a long-term distributor of ERDAS products, T-Kartor’s role is being expanded in the region to provide sales and customer support for the full Intergraph Geospatial portfolio. “Since Intergraph became a part of Hexagon, we have been focusing on integrating ERDAS products into the
Friday, June 1st, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Encoding Standard. This document specifies an extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
The GMES Masters competition was inaugurated in 2011 by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and T-Systems with the support of the European Commission. For this year’s iteration, two additional industry leaders – European Space Imaging GmbH and Astrium Services – have joined the competition
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Utilities need an accurate and consistent basemap of property data to support numerous processes including network planning, design, construction, operation and facility retirement. While federal, provincial and municipal governments provide parcel information, these datasets have varying schemas, degrees of accuracy and data lineage. To address this challenge, Manitoba Hydro, the province’s major energy utility, created
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
URISA, the Association for GIS Professionals, is offering the full-day certified workshop, An Overview of Open Source GIS Software, at its headquarters office in Des Plaines, IL on Thursday, June 21, 2012.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce the completion of a study for the Centre for Topographic Information of Natural Resources Canada on digital surface model (DSM) generation from RADARSAT-2 imagery using Correlator3D™. The purpose of the project was to determine the maximum achievable accuracy over mixed terrain such as
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Esri will closely support the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at the agency’s first-ever crowdsourcing initiative to make international development data accessible and transparent. The initiative will kick off at the USAID Innovation Lab in Washington, DC, at noon on Friday, June 1, 2012, and continue virtually until Sunday, June 3. Esri will participate
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Today OpenGeo released version 2.5 of their flagship product, The OpenGeo Suite. Version 2.5 bundles many improvements and bug fixes from the open source communities and adds special OpenGeo features, including a toolkit for developing and deploying applications powered by the OpenGeo Suite, and improved raster format support. OpenGeo, an innovator who introduced unlimited support
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor is now being added to the ice mission’s repertoire.
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
The latest SuperGIS Desktop 3.1, developed by SuperGeo, is adopted by the Centre for Community Services and Continuing Education, Kuwait University to integrate, edit, display, and analyze all types of spatial data and enhance the usability of spatial data and sources. SuperGeo local partner, IIES, has constantly offered training course to the faculty and students
