Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
A new underwater robotic vehicle is collecting important data along the Gulf Coast today, thanks to a partnership among Shell Oil Company, the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, and NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). In July, scientists recently launched an iRobot seaglider approximately 24.1 kilometers east of Shell’s Auger platform, near Flower Garden Banks, in the
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Exprodat, provider of training, software and consultancy services to the oil & gas industry has moved their London head office to new, larger premises. The company provides a unique combination of petroleum exploration and production expertise with GIS knowledge; a combination that has proved extremely popular with the world’s oil and gas companies. Exprodat’s success has
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Cornerstone Mapping, Inc., an aerial mapping company based in Lincoln, Nebraska, has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamLp photogrammetric digital aerial camera system. A new aircraft is also being purchased and retrofitted to accommodate the UltraCamLp. Cornerstone intends to fly the UltraCamLp in conjunction with its thermal sensor to
Monday, September 24th, 2012
As a market that has long utilized satellite and manned airborne platforms for data acquisition, the geospatial profession is finding unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology has the potential to revolutionize data collection and lower operating costs. In an effort to continue to educate members and to fully embrace the conference theme
Friday, September 21st, 2012
URISA is pleased to announce the publication of Foundations of Urban and Regional Information Systems and Geographic Information Systems and Science, a 300-page book assembled to celebrate URISA’s 50th anniversary conference. Sponsored by URISA past presidents, the commemorative book discusses some of the research, education, training, and applications foundations that URISA and its members have
Friday, September 21st, 2012
A bill to establish a “Digital Coast” program whereby the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) develops a coordinated and comprehensive national mapping effort for coastal, State and territorial waters of the United States has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, earning praise from MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector
Friday, September 21st, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC WaterML 2.0 Part 1: Time Series Encoding Standard as an official OGC standard. OGC WaterML 2.0 is an important new XML-based international standard for encoding and exchanging data describing the state and location of water resources, both above and below the ground surface.
Friday, September 21st, 2012
As Landsat continues to circle Earth, international partners of the Landsat program in almost a dozen locations downlink and process the data, sharing images with a global community of scientists, engineers, and land managers. These partners meet annually for the Landsat Technical Working Group (LTWG) meeting, which will be held this year in Sioux Falls,
Friday, September 21st, 2012
In just two weeks since the all-time record for lowest extent of Arctic summer sea ice was broken the Arctic has lost an additional and astonishing 260,000 more square miles of sea ice, the area of France. On August 26th scientists from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that Arctic sea ice
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
A landmark 3D mapping technology which could help protect the Darling Downs from future floods has been unveiled to the region’s leading town planners, engineers and environmental scientists during a geospatial conference in Toowoomba today. CityEngine – a 3D mapping technology developed by Geographic Information System (GIS) giant Esri– generates sophisticated ‘real world’ views and simulations
