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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East

A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Cryosat Reveals Major Loss of Arcti Sea Ice

An international team of scientists using new measurements from ESA’s ice mission has discovered that the volume of Arctic sea ice has declined by 36% during autumn and 9% during winter between 2003 and 2012.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

Optech Delivers Two LiDAR Systems to Cobb Engineering Company

Optech is pleased to announce the sale of an Optech Lynx M1 Mobile Mapper and an Optech ILRIS Terrestrial Laser Scanner to Cobb Engineering Company (CEC) in Oklahoma, USA.

Monday, February 11th, 2013

Optech Aerial Cameras to be Delivered to Kenyan Survey Department

Optech announced that its local agent, Citimax Technologies Ltd, has won a Kenyan government public tender to supply a state-of-the-art digital aerial camera system and compatible photogrammetric ground system. The fully equipped aerial survey platform will be delivered to Kenya’s Department of Resource Survey and Remote Sensing (DRSRS), within the Ministry of Environment and Mineral

Monday, February 11th, 2013

Leica Geosystems Call for Papers for “HxGN LIVE 2013” International Conference

Leica Geosystems is seeking presentations for its sessions at HxGN LIVE 2013, formerly known as “Hexagon Conference”, to be held 3-6 June 2013, at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Following the spectacular success of last year’s Hexagon 2012 conference, HxGN LIVE 2013 will again feature a global gathering of users and experts from all

Sunday, February 10th, 2013

Blue Marble to Showcase Powerful Global Mapper 14.1 LiDAR Processing Capability at ILMF

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the upcoming International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) from February 11-13 in Denver, CO.  Blue Marble will showcase new and improved LiDAR features and functions including a significant improvement in the ability to load and classify massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from tens of millions of points

Sunday, February 10th, 2013

MAPPS Partners with ILMF, Will Present and Exhibit in Denver Feb. 11-13

MAPPS, the association of private sector geospatial firms, will make a presentation and exhibit at the International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) to be held in Denver, CO February 11-13, 2013.

Sunday, February 10th, 2013

Reminder – Abstracts for the 2013 TMN UC and CDI Workshop Due Soon

Calling for abstracts in support of the The National Map Users Conference and the USGS Community for Data Integration Workshop.

Friday, February 8th, 2013

LizardTech to Exhibit at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum Conference

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) at the Hyatt Regency at Colorado Convention Center in Denver in booth #11, February 11-13, 2013. The company will showcase LiDAR Compressor™, its innovative application for compressing LiDAR files. 

Friday, February 8th, 2013

OGC Calls for Comments on netCDF Uncertainty Conventions Discussion Paper

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on an OGC discussion paper, netCDF Uncertainty Conventions (netCDF-U) 1.0.  This discussion paper proposes a set of conventions for managing uncertainty information within the netCDF classic (also known as netCDF3) data model and format.