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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Western University Professor Recognized for Creating Children’s Health Atlas

Esri Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to Dr. Jason Gilliland, a professor at Western University and a scientist for the Children’s Health Research Institute, for his outstanding application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to help improve children’s health in Southwestern Ontario. Dr. Gilliland led a multidisciplinary team in a research study of environmental

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Optech Announces Teledyne Majority Ownership

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Teledyne DALSA, Inc., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has acquired a majority interest in the parent company of Optech Incorporated. Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated instrumentation, digital imaging products and software, aerospace

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Trees Tell their Own Story to Satellites

Communications via satellite are changing the way the forest industry harvests trees. A new approach being tested by ESA combines satcoms and cellular services to relay important information almost immediately so that fewer trees are used to produce more timber.

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 3.5 for Adobe Photoshop

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator® and PDF Maps for Apple iOS, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 3.5 for Adobe Photoshop. This release is encompasses new support for import and export of spatial imagery formats.

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Join Citizens and Scientists Tracking the Pulse of Our Planet

Nature’s Notebook needs you to get outside this spring, join many other observers across the nation, and help it reach its millionth observation of plant and animal life events. People like you — gardeners, farmers, birders, hikers, anglers, joggers, or all-around nature enthusiasts — are already recording the recurring events they see in the lives

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Losses from Natural Disasters Reach New Peak in 2011

During 2011, 820 natural catastrophes were documented around the world, resulting in 27,000 deaths and $380 billion in economic losses, according to data compiled by Munich Reinsurance Company and analyzed in the Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs series. The number of natural catastrophes was down 15 percent from 2010 but was above the annual average of

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

URISA Connect Webinar Events Announced

URISA, the Association for GIS Professionals, has added several significant webinar events to the 2012 URISA Connect calendar. The next event, “I’ve seen the Future and it’s my Browser: GIS Development in the Mobile Era”, will be presented on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Presenters Dave Bouwman and Brian Noyle of DTSAgile will discuss trends in

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Leica Geosystems introduces the latest version 4.2 of its Leica Spider Software Suite for GNSS Networks and Reference Stations

Leica Geosystems is pleased to release the new version 4.2 of its market leading Leica Spider software suite.  The globally used solution for GNSS RTK networks is being continually enhanced and developed following the market needs and technological development to the benefits of its users.  Read More

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Eniro.fi Integration with BlomURBEX – Informative View of Finland

Eniro.fi is the most popular web map service in Finland and Blom’s oblique images have been an important part of this service for a few years. In 2011, Fonecta renewed their Eniro.fi service and during the process replaced the oblique viewing solution of the old Eniro.fi with BlomURBEX integration. Integration was done using BlomURBEX’s API (Application

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Intergraph – Geospatial Online Training – April 2012

Below you will find a list of our online training courses offered in April. Please click on the course title for complete description and registration information.