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Monday, January 30th, 2012

World’s Largest Atlas Makes Aylesbury Mum a Record Breaker

AN Aylesbury mum has appeared in the Guinness Book of Records after having a hand in creating the world’s biggest atlas. Leanne Kelman, 38, of Hambledon Close, is just one of 88 cartographers worldwide to have been involved in the record-breaking project to create the Earth Platinum map, published last week. Read More

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Cadastral Map Will Give Costa Rica’s Property Owners and Buyers More Security

A new way to identify properties around the country through a cadastral map is the aim of the Registro Nacional (National Register) by implementing a real estate certificate, that includes a two dimensional aerial view of the land or property, detailed information of the area and location and legal information. The process of the cadastral map

Monday, January 30th, 2012

IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition

What is unique about travelling to congresses is having exclusive tours of local facilities. These on-site visits also give you a chance to do in-depth networking with like-minded professionals. There are four tours available for Friday 21 September.

Monday, January 30th, 2012

FIG Working Week 6-10 May 2012 in Rome, Italy – Register now

Don’t miss the beautiful city of Rome. The registration for the FIG Working Week has now opened. Please note that until 21 February 2012 you can register at the Early Bird rate. The registration fee includes participation in the General Assembly (6 and 10 May), three conference days (7-9 May) lunches, coffees, exhibition and an extraordinary welcoming

Monday, January 30th, 2012

NT Spatial Excellence Awards – Nominate Now

The inaugural NT Spatial Excellence Awards will be presented at the NT Spatial 2012 conference dinner on the 22nd March at the Darwin Convention Centre. The goal of the awards is to recognise and promote the achievements and excellence of those in the surveying and spatial sciences. There are a variety of categories for individual and project based

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

NASA Study Solves Case of Earth’s ‘Missing Energy’

Two years ago, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth’s heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of “missing energy” in the planet’s system. Where was it going? Or, they wondered, was something wrong with the way researchers

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

U.S. Government Looking to Lower Landsat Costs

U.S. government agencies are working together to look for ways to reduce the cost of future Landsat missions as a result of congressional direction included in the 2012 budget passed in December.  “Although Congress has provided $2 million to the U.S. Geological Service for Landsat 9 program development, they have also requested that the Administration

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

ESA Guides Global Satnav Augmentation Gathering

Programme managers and technical experts overseeing four of the world’s regional satellite navigation augmentation systems met this week, with ESA coordinating the participation of stakeholders in Europe’s own EGNOS system.  The Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) Interoperability Working Group (IWG) was hosted by the German Aerospace Center, DLR, at Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich in southern Germany, on

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

YVision 4.0 Released

It’s been a long time since out last release. We have been busy replacing some of the engines to make sure YVision can execute on as many as possible platforms. This work paid off with better support for Silverlight 5 in this release and mobile devices support in the near future. Check out the features in this latest

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Geoinformatics 2012 Hong Kong

The Geoinformatics conference series was initiated by the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences(CPGIS) in 1992. This annual international conference has provided a unique forum for exchanging ideas and knowledge on geo-information sciences between GIS professionals worldwide. The 20th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2012) will be held on 15-17 June 2012