Friday, April 26th, 2013
You are cordially invited to attend the COM.Geo 2013 conference (The 4th International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application). The COM.Geo conference is a professional development opportunity for researchers, decision-makers, developers, and application users to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of computing for geospatial.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
For the first time, national mapping authority Ordnance Survey is running a programme for paid summer internships. Great Britain’s national mapping authority collects, maintains and distributes the most accurate and up-to-date digital mapping of the whole country.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
OpenGeo, the commercial open source provider behind the OpenGeo Suite, will have a strong showing at the second annual FOSS4G North America conference. The gold level sponsor has had nine sessions and three workshops accepted onto the program. The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial – North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference will be held from
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Monitoring and control of spring floods propagation on the Russian rivers has been conducted by ScanEx’s specialists with the help of operational satellite data. Space data application enables to assess the scope of disaster, to get real-time forecast with respect to flooding areas, to assess damage incurred and to detect flood-hazardous areas. Specialists of ScanEx
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Fortune 500 company AECOM renewed its enterprise license agreement with Esri, the world’s leading provider of geospatial technology. AECOM provides professional technical and management support services public and private clients in more than 140 countries around the world. Some of its recent projects include the London 2012 Olympic Games, the World Trade Center redevelopment in
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
U.S. Geological Survey field crews are measuring record flooding on rivers and streams across most of Illinois. At least ten USGS streamgages in Illinois that have more than 20 years of record, have measured the highest flood levels ever recorded. More record levels are expected as flooding moves downstream. USGS crews are expected to track
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Location is vital to decision making in supply chain management (SCM) because it is the great invisible common denominator. But when used in analysis, it is far more complicated. That’s why SCM professionals need to master powerful tools such as geographic information systems (GIS) to convert massive amounts of location-based data into business intelligence that
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Scientists have used the technique, called imaging spectroscopy, to learn about water on the moon, minerals on Mars and the composition of exoplanets. Green’s favorite place to apply the technique, however, is right here on the chemically rich Earth, which is just what he and colleagues achieved this spring during NASA’s Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI)
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Specialist software supplied by 3D Laser Mapping is being used to process millions of individual laser scanned measurements in order to help protect and conserve the beaches of Sussex on the south coast of England. The TerraSolid software, purchased by Adur and Worthing Councils, is being used to identify and isolate ground points from data
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
An image from an instrument aboard NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission or LDCM satellite may look like a typical black-and-white image of a dramatic landscape, but it tells a story of temperature. The dark waters of the Salton Sea pop in the middle of the Southern California desert. Crops create a checkerboard pattern stretching south
