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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

NCSE award to Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and former Secretary of the World Health Organisation has been given the US NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented at the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)’s annual National Congress in Washington, DC. Read More

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

SX5 – Scientific Service Support Based on Galileo E5 Receivers

SX5 is a project conducted by a consortium of 6 partners. It is funded by the European Union within the 7th Framework Programme and supervised by the GNSS Supervisory Authority GSA. Its main topic is the scientific exploitation of the Galileo E5 signal. An E5 receiver and a scientific software application prototype will be developed and

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Mannai Selected as Trimble Mapping & GIS Business Partner

Mannai CorporationMannai Corporation, Software Division announced that it has been selected as a Mapping & GIS business partner in Qatar for U.S. based Trimble, a leading provider of advanced positioning solutions. Combining positioning, communications and software to equip the mobile workforce, Trimble’s Mapping & GIS products improve productivity in a broad range of industries by

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Draft Guidelines for the Procurement of Commercial Geospatial Products Released for Second Round of Comments

ASPRS has released a second draft of the “Guidelines for Procurement of Commercial Geospatial Mapping Products.” The material is updated from the April 2011 version. The document is considered DRAFT FOR REVIEW and is being published at this time to encourage wide dissemination and comment.

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Tempe Picked to Host Model House with Energy-efficient Construction

The German government, aiming to spark an international dialogue about sustainable technologies, sponsored a 12-city North American tour of Das Haus, a model home and pavilion that showcases cutting-edge solar energy and energy-efficient construction. Read More

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Sony Adds Glonass Positioning to Numerous Xperia Phones

Sony is the latest smartphone manufacturer to sing the praises of Russia’s Glonass positioning system, announcing that the technology will see implementation in its upcoming Xperia S and Xperia Ion Android handsets. It turns out this isn’t exactly new territory for the company, as a post on its Developer World blog reveals that Glonass is already built-in to select

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Laser-powered Study on Climate Change

The National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) attached to the Department of Space, government of India, is planning to set up a network of LIDAR (Laser Radar System) with the help of indigenously developed sensor tools in ten locations across the country in the first phase to study the aerosol distribution over India. This was disclosed by

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Union Pacific Plans $1B in Rail Upgrades in Neb.

Union Pacific said Friday it plans to invest $1 billion in railroad projects in Nebraska over the next several years to upgrade the capacity of its network. Jim Young, the CEO of Union Pacific Corp., said he expects the investments to help create at least 1,000 jobs in Nebraska. The company plans to invest the money

Friday, January 20th, 2012

LizardTech to Showcase Free GeoViewer Application for iPad at Conferences Next Week

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting at two conferences next week – the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) at the Hyatt Regency at Colorado Convention Center in Denver in booth #203, and the Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2012 Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London

Friday, January 20th, 2012

NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis that shows temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago.