Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
To celebrate the sunny days of summer (in the northern hemisphere at least), today Google launched new satellite imagery for Google’s mapping products. This stunning global view is virtually cloud-free and includes refreshed imagery in more locations—giving you an even more accurate and comprehensive view of our planet’s landscape.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today the release of Geomatica Discover, PCI’s new browser-based software tool that crawls local, system drives or removable drives to automatically create a searchable geospatial data catalog.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced today new details about the “Build a Lizard” promotion the company is conducting in conjunction with the 2013 Esri International User Conference in San Diego July 8-11.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
A study published today in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics confirms the importance President Obama is placing on cutting hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as reflected in his climate speech yesterday and his new climate action plan. The study calculates that replacing high-GWP HFCs with low-GPW alternatives, as the U.S. and many other countries have proposed under the Montreal
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics has been selected to present on the COAST Tool at the 2013 MAPPS Summer Conference. The conference will be held at the Samoset Resort in Rockland, Maine on July 22nd – 26th. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, and CNES, have achieved a major improvement in Pléiades image quality, including sharper products and enhanced geometry.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Medelhavsmuseet) in Stockholm, Sweden is pioneering an entirely new way for visitors to interact with a collection of six ancient mummies. Instead of staring into glass cases to see only the surface of each mummy, what if visitors could operate a large touch-screen, digital “table” display allowing
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 4th International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application; in short form, COM.Geo 2013, which takes place in the capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, U.S.A. on July 22-24, 2013.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
The western U.S. has been suffering from a series of wildfires in the last few months. The Black Forest Fire, the most destructive fire on record in Colorado, destroyed over 500 homes and charred more than 14,000 acres during a 10-day period. California has also been subject to a spate of wildfires with over 680
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
Predicting where a dangerous wildfire is going to start can be very difficult, but geographic information systems (GIS) can quickly analyze geographic data about fire-contributing conditions to aid in effective wildfire planning and prevention.
