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Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Roscosmos to be a Co-organizer of the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions”

Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will be the co-organizer of the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions”. The conference will be held in October 1 -3, 2013 in the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” resort hotel. Adviser to the Roscosmos Head Valery Zaichko will deliver during the conference the report: “Russian of Remote

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Little Spokane Basin’s Aquifers Mapped

Scientists have sorted out and mapped the aquifers in the Little Spokane River Basin, giving the first detailed picture of the groundwater system, according to a report published by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Spokane County.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Avenza Releases MAPublisher 9.3 for Adobe Illustrator

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.3 for Adobe Illustrator. This latest update includes new many features and is fully compatible with the recently released Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud.

Monday, August 5th, 2013

OpenGeo Announces Strategic Engineering Hires

OpenGeo the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, today announced it has hired Jody Garnett, Tom Kunicki and Scooter Wadsworth to its expanding engineering team. Garnett’s hire builds on the company’s track record of bringing together leaders from a wide array of open source projects.

Monday, August 5th, 2013

ASPRS Lidar Division Releases First LAS Domain Profile

Thanks to a recent initiative of the ASPRS Lidar Division, different segments of the lidar mapping community now have the ability to customize the LAS file format to meet their application-specific needs.  The new mechanism that makes this possible is the LAS Domain Profile, which is a derivative of the base LAS v1.4 specification that

Monday, August 5th, 2013

Southern Federal University Receives Data from the Russian “Meteor-M” № 1 Satellite

In July, the Center of Space Monitoring of the Southern Federal University received Earth remote sensing data from the Russian medium resolution “Meteor-M” №1 satellite for the first time.

Monday, August 5th, 2013

The USGS and the Ecological Society of America: From Fire Science to Climate Change and Invasive Rodents

About 4,000 people are expected to attend the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Minneapolis from Aug. 4 to 9, 2013. The theme of this year’s conference is Sustainable Pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future.

Monday, August 5th, 2013

New Insight on Vulnerability of Public-Supply Water Wells to Contamination

Key factors have been identified that help determine the vulnerability of public-supply wells to contamination. A new USGS report describes these factors, providing insight into which contaminants in an aquifer might reach a well and when, how and at what concentration they might arrive. About one-third of the U.S. population gets their drinking water from

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

Trimble Introduces Connected Farm Fleet Management Application

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the Connected Farm Fleet app built to serve managers and technicians by enabling them to access their fleet information from any location. Using smartphones and tablets, the app enables the fleet management portion of Trimble’s industry-leading Connected Farm Web solution to go mobile. With the app, managers can track the

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

Trimble Adds DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery to Mobile Apps and Printed Maps

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced it has entered into an agreement with DigitalGlobe Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, to license its satellite imagery for offline use in Trimble Outdoors mobile apps, allowing outdoor enthusiasts to view and store imagery on their smartphones and tablets.