Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Astrium Services is supporting the Copernicus Masters 2013 program through the announcement of the Radar Challenge focusing on the use of high-resolution radar satellite data. This challenge invites the submission of truly innovative ideas building on the unique features of TerraSAR-X data and offering a clear benefit e.g. for the environment, security, or specific industries.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
OpenGeo, the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company have announced their plans to support QGIS and the open source community behind it. QGIS is the most widely available open source GIS tool with a proven track record and an extensive plug-in ecosystem. It is widely regarded to have achieved feature parity with proprietary tools
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
In Indonesia, land-clearing blazes dot the countryside. Fires for clearing land have been outlowed for all but the smallest landowners, but the “slash-and-burn” practice still persists despite cloaking Southeast Asia in toxic pollution for weeks. Better and more available satellite technology is helping identify culprits behind land-clearing blazes in Indonesia. Unprecedented levels of air pollution
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company” (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today it has been awarded a contract by DigitalGlobe to provide a new international Direct Access Facility ground station for an unspecified customer to task, collect and process imagery from the WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites. This contract
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
The use of satellite data to monitor wetlands for sustainable water management is growing. Following promising results from monitoring efforts in the Mediterranean, ESA is working with African partners to expand its GlobWetland project even further.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Nearly 300 senior leaders in the field of geospatial information will be arriving in Cambridge this week to discuss the future global direction of digital mapping. From 21 to 26 July 2013, Cambridge will be the host city of two international events, attracting leading experts from over 100 countries to discuss a variety of major
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
ScanEx RDC Research and Development Center officially became the distributor of the KOMPSAT data series in Russia and the CIS countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan) at the end of June this year, following the signing of an agreement with the Korean company Satrec Initiative Co., Ltd.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
The 3rd edition of MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica, Conference and Trade Fair of Geomatics and Geospatial Solutions , was held last week in Sao Paulo, and demonstrated the strength of the geospatial market in Brazil and Latin America. In total 3,540 participants from over 25 countries attended the 20 activities of the event, besides 150 speakers and
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
Marcus Hanke, CEO of 1Spatial, global specialists in spatial big data management, is part of a panel discussing Market Insight & Opportunities Ahead at the Cambridge Conference today at 3.45pm. Chaired by Neil Ackroyd from Ordnance Survey, other panellists include representatives from Oracle, DigitalGlobe, Esri and Infotech.
Friday, July 19th, 2013
A new study by Indian glaciologists suggests black carbon from forest fires may affect the “reflectance” or albedo of glaciers in a manner that reduces their mass balance. The report indicates that the change in reflectance in 2009 was higher than in any other year from 2000 to 2012 and could only be explained by
