Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Educators and students have realized the benefits of online education, but now American Sentinel University’s new innovative educational strategy offers a way for students to explore given geospatial topics in greater depth that go beyond a typical classroom environment.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
A bi-partisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to create a current, accurate Federal inventory or “cadastre” of all Federal real property has earned praise from MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector geospatial firms. The Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (“FLAIR)” Act, H.R. 916, was introduced on February 28 by Representatives
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.2 for Adobe Illustrator. This exciting release includes a number of new and exciting product enhancements. Export has been improved and streamlined to
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the release of its new CS-6500 aerial camera system. A direct advance from the Optech CS-4800 camera, the CS-6500 inherits the CS-4800’s robust and proven design while providing enhancements and new features. As a
Monday, March 25th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the establishment of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Forum during the 84th Technical and Planning Committee meetings held in March 2013 in Abu Dhabi last week, hosted by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of the Interior.
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Looking at data without location, most of the time seems like looking at just part of a story. Including location and geography in analysis reveals patterns and associations that otherwise are missed. As Big Data emerges as a new frontier for analysis, including location in Big Data is becoming significantly important.
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Esri has awarded grants to 4-H groups in 10 states in its 2013 GIS Grants for 4-H Program. For almost 10 years, 4-H youth clubs across the United States have participated in the program, using ArcGIS to explore and analyze problems in their local communities. The club’s involvement with GIS has increased so much that
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Participants of the 6th International Conference “Earth from Space the Most Effective Solutions”, which is to take place on October 1-3 near Moscow, will share experience in space information application during maritime monitoring.
Monday, March 25th, 2013
From the ASPRS conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit introduces the UltraCam Osprey, a new digital aerial system that combines a high performing photogrammetric nadir camera with oblique image capture capabilities. This third generation UltraCam camera builds on the UltraCam Eagle technology, including advanced electronics to achieve an exceptional signal/noise ratio; solid state
Monday, March 25th, 2013
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting at the ASPRS 2013 Annual Conference at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel this week in booth number 701.
