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Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Indonesian Meteorological, Climatological & Geophysical Agency Chooses SuperGIS Desktop 3.1

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that Indonesian Meteorological, Climatological & Geophysical Agency (BMKG) employs SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 with the powerful GIS tools to integrate and visualize a variety of spatial data and statistics about meteorology.

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Alberta Improves Land Inventory with DigitalGlobe Imagery

An up-to-date land inventory is required for effective conservation and land-use planning. While there are numerous commercial data providers of aerial photography and remotely-sensed imagery, not all provide comprehensive geographic coverage due to the significant costs of conducting aerial surveys and imagery collection. To address this challenge, the Alberta Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Resource

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Avenza Partners with Mapmobility to Provide Canadian Digital Maps for Mobile Devices

Avenza Systems Inc., the leading developer of cartographic software –such as MAPublisher® for Adobe® Illustrator® and Geographic Imager® geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop®– has partnered with Mapmobility, Canada’s most prominent producer of printed urban mapping products to announce the largest offering of Canadian digital maps for consumer use on the iOS platform.  Avenza will host

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Bluesky Launches Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast response aerial survey service using state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones. The technology, originally developed by the military, includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) guided autopilot, high resolution integrated camera and environmentally friendly rechargeable propulsion system. Autonomous take-off and landing ensures the system is easy

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

How ESA and Industry will Work Together in the Future

ESA and industry have built a strong relationship in the 35 years they have worked together. But with changing times, we should review this relationship to see what has worked well and what needs to be improved, so that it continues to grow.

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

OpenGeo to Present at FOSS4G Central and Eastern Europe Conference

OpenGeo, a company committed to bringing the best enterprise open source geospatial software and support to organizations and governments worldwide, will be an active participant in this year’s Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Central and Eastern Europe (FOSS4G-CEE) & Geoinformatics 2012 Conference. The much anticipated conference will take place in Prague from May

Friday, May 18th, 2012

U.S.-Japan Scientific Cooperation Strengthened with Launch of Environmental Monitoring Satellite

NOAA scientists will use data from a new Japanese polar-orbiting satellite launched earlier today from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, to help forecast severe storms, monitor the decline of Arctic sea ice, and predict the onset of El Niño, La Niña and other global climate phenomena. Once deemed operational, data from this new spacecraft and the

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Green Economic Transition Needed to Achieve More Equitable and Sustainable Development

As global unemployment continues to rise and job opportunities remain scarce, especially for youth, the creation of a green economy might hold the answers to addressing some of today’s most critical challenges. Global unemployment reached an estimated 205 million in 2010, up from 177 million in 2007, according to the Worldwatch Institute’s recently released report,

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Esri Canada Named One of CDN’s Top 100 IT Solution Providers in Canada

Esri Canada today announced that the company has been named one of the Top 100 IT Solution Providers in Canada by Computer Dealer News (CDN), the country’s leading IT channel publication and Web site. Esri Canada ranked no. 20 on its first year on the list and also received the Best-Performing Newcomer Award. CDN Top

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

COM.Geo 2012: Oracle to Present Keynote “Big Data and Advanced Spatial Analytics”

Dr. Xavier Lopez, Director of Spatial and Semantic Technologies, Oracle, will deliver a keynote “Big Data and Advanced Spatial Analytics” at COM.Geo 2012 conference which will be held on July 1-3, Washington, DC.