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Monday, March 11th, 2013

Countries from South America at Intergeo 2013

South America is an economically dynamic continent. Approx. 8 companies will present themselves at INTERGEO 2013. The South American Pavilion present skills and know-how to the expected 16,000 visitors. German companies will benefit greatly of the cooperation at INTERGEO. Especially SMBs get the chance to socialize easily and important international contacts.

Monday, March 11th, 2013

ScanEx Offers Express.Kosmosnimki Service for Access to Satellite Images of Russia as a Service

ScanEx RDC specialists took part in the 14th All-Russian Scientific Conference  “Geoinformatics in Oil and Gas Industry” (February 19-21). The report “Express.Kosmosnimki: access to satellite imagery data at unprecedented price” was delivered at its plenary session on February 20.

Monday, March 11th, 2013

GOCE Satellite Detects Japan’s Tohoku Earthquake

Satellites map changes in Earth’s surface caused by earthquakes but never before have sound waves from a quake been sensed directly in space – until now. ESA’s hyper-sensitive GOCE gravity satellite has added yet another first to its list of successes.

Monday, March 11th, 2013

Registration now open for Cambridge Conference 2013 – ‘Bringing Geographic Authority to Information’

The Cambridge Conference – long established as the premier meeting of senior executives from national mapping and cadastral authorities around the world – will take place from 21–24 July 2013, in Churchill College, Cambridge, Great Britain. This will be followed by the Third Session of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM3), which will

Monday, March 11th, 2013

Leica Introduces SteerDirect ES, A New Electric Steering Solution for Farmers

Leica Geosystems announces the new retro-fit electric steering system Leica SteerDirect ES. The easy-to-install solution allows farmers to add assisted steering to the majority of tractor, sprayer and harvester models without removing the steering wheel.

Monday, March 11th, 2013

Optech Announces Keynote Speakers for ILSC 2013

Optech is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for its third Imaging and Lidar Solutions Conference, ILSC 2013. This is a special year for Optech and ILSC, which will be held June 25 – 27 at the Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale, Canada. Many positive changes have been occurring, and the leaders of the industry will

Monday, March 11th, 2013

Microsoft to Unveil New Technologies at ASPRS 2013 Conference in Baltimore, MD

In its User Group meeting at the 2013 ASPRS conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Microsoft’s UltraCam product team will introduce its latest technological advancements that the company expects will set new standards for the aerial mapping industry. The meeting will take place on Monday, March 25th from 8:00am – 12:00 noon eastern time in Harborside Ballroom

Sunday, March 10th, 2013

Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North’s Growing Seasons

Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly improved satellite data sets.

Saturday, March 9th, 2013

New NOAA Study Estimates Future Loss of Labor Capacity as Climate Warms

A new NOAA study projects that heat-stress related labor capacity losses will double globally by 2050 with a warming climate. The impact will be felt the most by those who work outside or in hot environments, such as firefighters, bakery workers, farmers, construction workers, factory workers, and others who will be forced to slow down

Friday, March 8th, 2013

2012 Satellite Launch Results: China and France Advance

In 2012 there were 24 civil, commercial and military spacecrafts for Earth observation launched, belonging to 13 world countries and organizations. The undisputable leader in the number of launched national Earth remote sensing spacecrafts is again China for the fourth time in a row since 2007 (8 satellites), well outrunning Russia (3 satellites), France (satellites),