Monday, February 27th, 2012
U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson has nominated Ken Kane, a native of McKean County, to serve as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced its new forest planning rule in January, which included the formation of the committee to
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Broadband data transmission from the imaging equipment of the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite successfully started on February 23. Survey results were delivered in real-time on High Rate Data (HRD) radio-link. To get access to data transmitted via HRD radio-link at 15Mbps for free the user only needs to have an X-band receiving
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
With a growing sense in the science community that climate change is real—the National Academies of Sciences in the United States, and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom were just two among many scientific organizations issuing statements about human-caused warming—the devastating 2005 hurricane season hardly seemed coincidental. Warming climate was worsening tropical cyclones, right?
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
Beijing : China launched a navigation satellite early Saturday.The orbiter was successfully launched into space at 12.12 a.m. It is China’s 11th homemade navigation satellite, also called Beidou or Compass system. A Long March-3C rocket carried the satellite into space from Xichang launch centre in southwestern Sichuan province, Xinhua reported. Read More
Friday, February 24th, 2012
In the near future, NOAA scientists will begin using data from an advanced instrument to monitor the health of Earth’s stratospheric ozone, a layer in the atmosphere that shields the world’s population from harmful levels of the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Intrepid Geomatics for the distribution of its Correlator3D™ product. Based in the United States, Intrepid is managed by Patrick McConnell who brings over twenty years of experience in innovative technologies for the geospatial industry.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Two of the world’s top technologies are consistently pairing up in what many believe is the evolution of information. Software companies are integrating geographic information systems (GIS) technology and social media to map people’s tweets and other social media platforms with geospatial data. GIS paired with social media has been used in every major disaster
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced that it will jointly develop a new crisis response imagery service with Esri, the leading global geographic information software provider. This service, expected to be released this spring, will augment Esri’s current disaster response capability with GeoEye’s ability to task its satellite to collect
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
AeroGRID has signed a data agreement with First Base Solutions, Canada’s leading provider of aerial photography and orthophoto mapping. The agreement will enable AeroGRID to resell 120,000km2 of central Canada plus all major cities with the data supplied via WMS.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Cambridge Wireless has been awarded an initial £50k funding for a multi-company research project under the government-backed Technology Strategy Board’s Internet of Things (IoT) Convergence initiative. Designed to move towards an IoT application and services marketplace, the work will explore how data collected from environments, buildings, vehicles, clothing, portable devices and other objects can be shared
