Friday, June 28th, 2013
MDA’s Information Systems group announced today that it is making available a series of RADARSAT-2 flood maps to any local, provincial, or federal agency or non-profit organization that is involved in responding to the recent flooding in Alberta.
Friday, June 28th, 2013
The biomass of the northern hemisphere’s forests has been mapped with greater precision than ever before thanks to satellites, improving our understanding of the carbon cycle and our prediction of Earth’s future climate. Accurately measuring forest biomass and how it varies are key elements for taking stock of forests and vegetation. Since forests assist in
Friday, June 28th, 2013
American Sentinel University’s GIS program chair, Stephen McElroy, Ph.D., GISP, will detail how competency-based learning is an educational strategy that provides a flexible means for geographic information systems (GIS) students to demonstrate content mastery in his presentation ‘Online Geospatial Learning Lab Exemplifies Competency-based Learning’ at the upcoming 2013 Esri Education GIS Conference on Tuesday, July
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced a call for public comment on the OGC WaterML 2.0 – part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Discussion Paper. This OGC discussion paper can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp.
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) recently completed two key programmatic reviews at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and is continuing a steady, on schedule and on budget march toward the 2017 launch of JPSS-1, the second in the series of next generation polar-orbiting weather satellites.
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
Safe Software, makers of FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, today announced that with the assistance of its Value Added Reseller (VAR) partners it has wrapped up another successful FME World Tour in 2013. Through events hosted in 49 cities around the globe over 2,000 attendees were given the opportunity to learn about FME
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
The geo-analytic system “AgroUpravlenie” (agro-control) for inventory and monitoring of agricultural lands has started to operate in the Tambov Region. This was made possible due to a long-term and fruitful partnership between “CentrProgrammSystem” LLC and ScanEx RDC, whose experience in creating highly detailed maps was used in “AgroUpravlenie” geo-analytic system.
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Research and Development Center ScanEx plan to implement the project of satellite-based monitoring of associated petroleum gas (APG) flaring in the Russia.
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
Experts in laser scanning from around the world are coming together to showcase the latest technical innovations and solutions at a one day conference in London. The free to attend event, organised by 3D Laser Mapping in collaboration with University College London (UCL), will feature presentations from Stuart Robson, Professor in Laser Scanning at UCL
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
The national Office for Survey, Mapping, and Cadastre of the Czech Republic has launched new iOS and Android apps that make it simple to find authoritative land information wherever you are. Users from the real estate sector, just one group from the enthusiastic early adopters, predict immediate time savings when assessing properties – thanks to
