Monday, February 25th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the upcoming Esri Federal User Conference in Washington D.C. Blue Marble will showcase Global Mapper and its newly enhanced LiDAR features including a significant improvement in the ability to load and classify massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from supporting files that contain tens of millions
Sunday, February 24th, 2013
Intergraph’s Geospatial World Tour is well underway, with hundreds experiencing the power of the Geospatial 2013 Portfolio firsthand. Geospatial 2013 is genuinely significant, going well beyond an incremental version release. It unites the ERDAS and GeoMedia product families into ONE streamlined suite, enabling you to exploit capabilities across products and disciplines spanning GIS, remote sensing,
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Water resource managers can now estimate daily baseline streamflows in a matter of minutes for any location along Pennsylvania’s waterways. The Baseline Streamflow Estimator, called “BaSE,” provides users with estimated daily mean streamflow, minimally altered by human activities, for locations on Pennsylvania streams that don’t have streamgages. Pennsylvania is one of the first states in
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper SDK version 14.1. This release offers many new and improved features and functions including a significant improvement in the ability to process and visualize massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from supporting files that contain tens of millions of points to those
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
An alien or non-native species is an organism which humans have introduced –intentionally or accidentally -outside its previous range. It is deemed ‘invasive’ if it has negative effects on its surroundings, for example by outcompeting or predating on native species that have evolved without specific adaptations to cope with them. In such cases populations of
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Google Maps for Education provides resources to help teachers and students explore, create, and collaborate with mapping tools. Students who are taught geography are better equipped to understand how human and physical systems interact and to make informed decisions based on that knowledge.
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
A Leica ALS70 airborne LIDAR system was delivered to the Karoly Robert College in Gyöngyös/Hungary. The ALS70 HP LIDAR system will be used to capture highly accurate and dense surface models of the earth, combined with the multispectral imagery of an integrated camera system. Major applications are data capture for topographic mapping, flooding simulation, forestry
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Americans today face challenging economic times. Families are sitting down at their kitchen tables and making tough choices with tighter budgets. Businesses are weighing whether to hire new employees or expand operations. Communities are challenged to determine which essential services to provide to their citizens and businesses. Across the country, we are forced to balance
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Cutting-edge mapping technology is being used to tackle child obesity in South Australia by pinpointing communities across the state with poorer health outcomes. The Geographic Information System (GIS) technology from industry leaders Esri Australia is being used by South Australia’s Department for Health and Ageing and local governments in a five year evaluation of facilities
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
For decades, scientists have disagreed about whether the sea is higher or lower heading north along the east coast of North America. Thanks to precision gravity data from ESA’s GOCE satellite, this controversial issue has now been settled. The answer? It’s lower.
