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Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

TerraGo Promotes John Timar to Senior Director, Federal Programs

TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial and location intelligence software, has promoted John Timar to senior director, Federal Programs. He will lead TerraGo’s Federal government strategy and team of deeply experienced partner and account managers.

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Mining Waste Byproduct Capable of Helping Clean Water

A byproduct resulting from the treatment of acid mine drainage may have a second life in helping clean waters coming from agricultural and wastewater discharges, according to a recent study by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey Leetown Science Center.  

Monday, December 17th, 2012

The OGC Invites Public to Final Demonstration of Major Testbed Activity

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to attend the January 15 OWS-9 Testbed Demonstration and Exhibition. This event will be held as part of the OGC Technical Committee meeting at the Esri campus in Redlands, California, 14-18 January 2012.

Saturday, December 15th, 2012

DigitalGlobe Wants Public to Vote for the Top Satellite Image of 2012

DigitalGlobe has published its 20 best satellite images of 2012 and it is now looking for public feedback to select the top one.  The satellite images feature natural disasters and wonder, political issues, and other events. The public can browse through the images on DigitalGlobe’s Facebook page and use the “like” button to vote on their favorites until

Saturday, December 15th, 2012

DigitalGlobe and MapBox Bring the Power of Location Intelligence to Every Online User

DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced that MapBox (www.mapbox.com), a provider of open source solutions for designing and publishing maps via the cloud, has chosen DigitalGlobe as their commercial earth imagery provider.

Friday, December 14th, 2012

LizardTech Releases Updated GeoViewer Application

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, today released an update to its free GeoViewer application for Apple iOS devices, designed to view geospatial imagery and vector overlays.

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

Public Health Abstract Submission

Abstract submissions for URISA’s GIS in Public Health Conference will be accepted until January 31, 2013 . The conference will take place in Miami, Florida, June 17-20, 2013 and is chaired by long-time committee member, Jason K. Blackburn, PhD, Emerging Pathogens Institute & Department of Geography at the University of Florida. This biennial conference has been previously

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

Innovative Land-Use Planning App Wins at AngelHack Toronto

Esri Canada congratulates business startup Environmaps for receiving an honourable mention at the recent AngelHack Toronto, the world’s largest Web developer competition. Environmaps created environmaps.com, a one-click land-use planning app that supports non-residential property development. The app leverages ArcGIS, Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) solution, integrated with open-source software and consumer-oriented maps. Through the app, property developers can

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

Blue Marble Presents Paper at ELMF 2012 on LiDAR Post Processing in Global Mapper

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to have been selected to present a paper on post processing LiDAR data with Global Mapper at the European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) conference in Salzburg, Austria. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Frost & Sullivan Names TerraGo Technologies Notable U.S. Defense Market Participant

Frost & Sullivan has named TerraGo Technologies a notable market participant in its recently released “Analysis of the U.S. Defense Geospatial Market” report.