Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Environment Canada has failed to implement a strategic plan to improve its internal scientific research in areas ranging from managing air and water pollution to toxic chemicals, a new report has found. The report was released Tuesday by Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner Scott Vaughan. He found that years after it was developed, Environment Canada has still
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
We present case studies regarding the application and analysis of open data for heritage management. In particular case studies of selected medieval hill towns in the Abruzzo Region analysed several solutions during and after the 2009 Aquila earthquake. Case studies of Haiti hinterland (immediately following the devastating earthquake in January 2010) will test hydrographic technologies
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Corporate GIS for the Welsh Government has won a prestigious Innovation & Best Practice Award from the Association of Geographic Information. The AGI awards identify and encourage best practice, innovation and maximum use of geographic information. The 2011 award is a result of an investment programme in technology and skills that is now delivering a
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
New Multi-Sensor hardware feature includes the Compass and Height Sensor which complement the existing Dual Axis Compensator for the FARO Focus3D. The two new sensors deliver the orientation and the relative height against a set starting point for each scan. They significantly improve the automatic registration process, minimizing manual effort in post processing. With the WLAN remote control,
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
A new global web service allowing users to create maps and visualise data on environmental issues is now live. The new Eye on Earth global public information service brings together vast amounts of data about the environment in a powerful, visual format. Read More
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Over 30 years of archived data from the US Landsat Earth-observing satellites are now available, free of charge. The majority of these products are unique to ESA’s archive and have never before been accessible anywhere else by the scientific user community. Read More
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Domestic solar power companies responding to a UK government subsidy cut are turning to an innovative digital map solution for help. From April 2012 Feed-in-tariffs for small-scale household installations made after 12 December 2011 will be halved from 43p per kWh to 21p. As a result, companies have to focus even harder on being efficient
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that a new report from industry analyst Monica Schnitger, of Schnitger Corporation, puts Bentley’s OpenPlant products for plant creation at the forefront of data interoperability. Improved interoperability, says the report, enables owner-operators to achieve faster project completion and more efficient operations. Schnitger cites comments by early adopters of OpenPlant –
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 8.6 for Adobe Illustrator. In addition to a large number of new features and enhancements to existing ones, this release is the first
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Esri’s ArcGIS system has been certified with the VCE VblockInfrastructure Platform, and Esri is now part of the VCE independent software vendor (ISV) program. Vblock platforms bring together best-of-breed technologies from Cisco, EMC, and VMware into a prepackaged, prevalidated converged infrastructure system. Esri’s certification will accelerate the deployment of on-premises private cloud solutions with mapping
