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Monday, March 19th, 2012

“GMES in Action” Will Take Place On 4-5 June 2012

A conference entitled “GMES in Action” will take place on 4-5 June 2012 in Copenhagen with the objective to highlight the economic impact and strategic value of GMES and inform about the benefits of GMES for Europe from the users’ perspective. More information is available either on this website (here) or on the EC DG ENTR

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Sokkia Announces New Total Station Series for Professionals – the FX

Sokkia announces a new reflectorless total station – the FX – that includes on-board MAGNET™ Field application software, a telematics-based communications module TSshield, and a long-range wireless communications system utilizing Bluetooth® Class 1 technology.

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo At Risk For Major Disaster In Near Future

Just days after the somber one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 16,000 people in 2011, Japan was struck by two new earthquakes.On Wednesday, a 6.8 magnitude quake hit Japan‘s northern Hokkaido Island. It was followed hours later by a 6.1 magnitude tremor in the Chiba Prefecture, which is directly south of Tokyo

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

ProjectWise V8i and Bentley Navigator V8i Honored

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that ProjectWise V8i and Bentley Navigator V8i have each won a commercial 2012 Constructech Top Products award in the “Trusted Products” category. The award honors technology solutions that have demonstrated the greatest innovations geared toward the construction market. Products and solutions eligible for the Trusted Products category comprise core technology offerings

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Russia Plans to Install GLONASS Ground Support Stations in 34 countires

Russia plans to install ground support stations for its GLONASS global satellite positioning system in 34 countries across the globe, Russian Space Systems General Director and General Designer Yury Urlichich said.  “We are considering 34 countries in which the stations can be installed. There are a lot of such countries. Negotiations with Australia are likely

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Informal Development in Greece: New Legislation for Formalization, the Chances for Legalization and the Dead Capital

On the FIG web site we publish each month a paper called the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors. It can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in February 2012 is written by Chryssy Potsiou and Ifigenie Boulaka Greece:Informal Development

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Discover How to Achieve Mission Success at the Esri UC

The Esri UC is a special time for us. It’s when our team and the Esri user community come together to build solutions that strengthen operations and decision making. We are busily preparing for the 2012 conference. We’re building an agenda of sessions and face-to-face activities that will help geospatial professionals like you take new solutions

Friday, March 16th, 2012

OpenGeo Presentations at FOSS4G North America

OpenGeo, the open source technology leader behind the OpenGeo Suite, will have a strong showing at the inaugural2012 FOSS4G North America conference. With Gold Sponsor status, and eleven sessions on the program, OpenGeo is sure to make an impact at the conference. The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial – North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference

Friday, March 16th, 2012

GIS Technology Offers New Predictive Analysis to Business

It isn’t often that managers can look to law enforcement for clues on how to more effectively do their work. But police are delivering an important lesson on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) by utilizing geospatial predictive analysis to find meth labs before criminals establish them.

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Qbo Robot Dons ASUS 3D Sensor Crown for Intelligent Autonomy

Open-source robot project Qbo has gained a new set of sensors, in the shape of a custom ASUS Xtion tiara that allows the ‘bot to 3D map his environment, autonomously navigate and – most importantly – avoid obstacles. While Qbo already has twin HD webcam eyes and four ultrasonic sensors (two up front and two