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Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

SpatiaLABS 2013 Teaches Students Spatial Reasoning Skills

Designed for disciplines across the entire university, SpatiaLABS 2013 Edition complements and enhances an instructor’s course with geospatial investigations. The computer-based lab sessions, published by Esri Press, build students’ spatial reasoning and analysis skills.

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Water Quality Differences Affect Aquatic Health of Urban Streams in Kansas City and Independence, Missouri

Downstream areas of the Blue River and Little Blue River basins are highly affected by urban development, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study that compares the aquatic-life status of streams in the Kansas City, Mo. metropolitan area using macroinvertebrate populations as an indicator of stream health.

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

OGC announces Climate-Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot Demo Webinar

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that it will demonstrate the results of the OGC Climate-Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot, Phase 1 (CHISP-1) at a webinar to be held from 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The public is invited to register for the webinar. After the webinar, detailed CHISP-1 Engineering

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Intermap Announces $410,000 NEXTMap Licensing Sale for RiskPro Solution Contract

Intermap (IMP.TO), (ITMSF:BB), a leading provider of geospatial solutions on-demand created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface, today announced that it has received a $410,000 NEXTMap licensing sale for a RiskPro solution in Southeast Asia. The data will be immediately delivered from the Company’s NEXTMap data library.

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

NOAA Coastal GeoTools Conference Canceled

The recent sequestration of U.S. Government funds and other near-term budget uncertainties have made it necessary for NOAA to cancel the Coastal GeoTools 2013 Conference to be held in Myrtle Beach, SC, March 25-28. We are currently working with the conference contractor to implement this cancelation. We apologize for any financial burden this decision causes

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Danish Meteorological Institute Partners with MDA for the Creation of Ice Charts for the Greenland Sea

MDA’s Information Systems group announced today that it has signed a contract to provide the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) with RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2 data to create up-to-date ice charts and reports that are sent via satellite to ships navigating the ice-infested Greenland Sea.

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

RapidEye Holds Session at ASPRS User Group Meetings

RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of five satellites, announced today that it will attend ASPRS and present its Mosaics product at the ASPRS User Group Meetings.

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Real-Life Disaster Imaging Needed for Next Aussie Crisis

Cutting-edge imagery technology that has guided rescue efforts during the world’s worst natural catastrophes could be the lynchpin in Australia’s next disaster response and recovery, according to a visiting international specialist. The world’s most advanced imagery software – known as ENVI – compiles and analyses data captured from remote sensors before, during and after a

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

PCI Introduces Historical Air Photo Processing (HAP) Workflow

PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it has introduced the Historical Airphoto Processing Workflow, also known as HAP. The HAP workflow was designed to work with historical airphotos, providing a semi-automated means to align, orthorectify, and mosaic from hundreds to thousands of digitally scanned airphotos.

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Safe Software Continues to Add Functionality to FME 2013 with SP1

Safe Software, makers of FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, today announced the release of the FME 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that includes the latest fixes and updates for FME Desktop and FME Server, but also impressive new capabilities. Adding to the story of the latest version of FME, SP1 introduces functionality that