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.
Monday, June 24th, 2013
A system for public monitoring from space to establish a dialogue with the authorities at the highest – orbital – level is being created in Russia. ScanEx Research and Development Center launches the “Space Patrol” project. It deals with the regular operational updating of satellite imagery data in open public access.
Monday, June 24th, 2013
RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide-area repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of five satellites, announced today that they have extended and enhanced their ongoing partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (KSAT). As of early April, RapidEye has an increased data downlink capacity through greater access to KSAT’s larger antenna network Svalbard, Norway. These
