Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Government agencies with geospatial or data visualization requirements might want to take at a close look at Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows, the motion-sensor peripheral originally created for the Xbox 360. Read More
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Timmons Group recently developed and released a field inspection and data collection mobile application for Prince William County, Virginia. The solution is tablet-enabled and allows Prince William field staff to realize significant return on investment (ROI) by using their iPad2 tablets to streamline their daily inspection workflows. Approximately one thousand storm water management ponds needing
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Backcountry skiers and snowboarders have a new tool to explore regional daily avalanche-danger levels. A web-based map, created by students and faculty at Western Washington University (WWU), takes the regional avalanche forecasts issued by the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center and displays the same information spatially. Read More
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Esri has released the second in the Mapping the Nation series, Mapping the Nation: Government and Technology Making a Difference. Including more than 100 full-color maps produced by 40 government agencies, it clearly illustrates how GIS technology can be used to evaluate and respond to social, economic, and environmental concerns at local, regional, national, and
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
This abstract describes a systematic procedure for analysing corrugated asbestos-cement roofing sheets with Remote sensing test, Open Source data and other analysis (e.g. chemical and medical test) in order to analyse the asbestos fiber air dispersion that can cause lung cancer. To develop this procedure, we should implement test field and laboratory measurements and gathered airborne hyperspectral
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Poland has not yet complied with EU legislation on water protection, including monitoring of water quality. On the recommendation of Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik, the Commission is sending an additional reasoned opinion to ask Poland to correctly implement the EU’s Water Framework Directive (WFD). This is the third time Poland has been reminded of the need to
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
GAF AG provides time-critical satellite information for the Crisis Management Service (EMS) of the European Commission under the ” GMES Initial Operations (GIO): EMS mapping in Rush Mode ” (NL/1112747911) Munich, 1 März.2012 The GAF provides information on the signing of an agreement with the European Commission to provide time-critical Earth observation services in crisis and disaster.
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Scientists from Aarhus University are working with private companies on developing modern satellite technology to improve the logistics of agricultural field work. Agricultural contractors and large farms have a whole army of agricultural machinery and operations to control. This requires fine-tuning of logistics as excess driving is inefficient and costs both time, money and fuel. A
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Leica Geosystems today announced additional features for the Leica mojoMINI and Leica mojo3D to further enhance product usability and compatibility. Upgrades include an improved look and feel of the mojoMINI display, data import and export for the Leica mojo3D and an extra lightbar option for both products. The 4.3 inch touch screen has undertaken several modifications.
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Esri was named winner of a 2012 IBM Beacon Award for Best Industry Solutions for Government in recognition of Esri Maps for IBM Cognos. This honor is awarded each year to a select number of IBM business partners to recognize information technology excellence, commitment to skills attainment, industry knowledge, and innovative solutions based on IBM
