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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

MDA Expands Global Network to Include Two New RADARSAT-2 Ground Stations

MDA’s Information Systems Group (MDA) is pleased to announce two important expansions to its international network of RADARSAT-2 ground stations.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

EPA Unveils Calif. Mapping Tool for Developing Renewable Energy Sources

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, announced an online mapping tool that enables users to find contaminated and degraded properties in California ideal for renewable energy redevelopment. 

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

GIS Assists the Workforce Development in Taiwan

Workforce development is a problem-solving approach that is often used to enhance a region’s economic stability and prosperity. To help the governments in Taiwan understand more about the current situation of labor markets to enhance capital competitiveness of regional talents and receive clear information for effective decision making, Taiwan Training Center Bureau of Employment and

Monday, September 10th, 2012

GeoEye Announces Agreement with Fugro

GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced an agreement with Fugro for online imagery dissemination through Fugro World, Fugro’s global portal for delivery of data and solutions. GeoEye’s EyeQ platform will be integrated with Fugro World to support online access to satellite imagery.

Monday, September 10th, 2012

SPOT 6 Joins Pléiades 1A in Orbit

Built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, the SPOT 6 Earth observation satellite has been successfully launched by a PSLV launcher from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. It will join in orbit Pléiades 1A, the very high resolution Earth observation satellite with products distributed by Astrium Services. Both satellites will first work together and will form,

Monday, September 10th, 2012

URISA Announces Asset Management Webinar Series

URISA, the Association for GIS Professionals, has a comprehensive webinar series on focusing on Asset Management beginning on Tuesday, September 18. For more information, or to register, please visit http://www.urisa.org/assetmgmt1.  

Monday, September 10th, 2012

IUCN Congress Recognises Conservation Greats

Today, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, IUCN awarded its two highest medals to outstanding individuals of the conservation world, and eleven other conservation greats were granted honorary membership of IUCN.

Monday, September 10th, 2012

Stronger Leadership Needed to Save World’s Natural Wonders – IUCN

At the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) is warning of the growing threats faced by many existing World Heritage sites and is calling for stronger measures to guarantee their future.

Friday, September 7th, 2012

IUCN Launches New Report on Protected Areas

Protected Areas –parks, nature reserves and other natural areas– assist in reducing deforestation, habitat and species loss, and support the livelihoods of over one billion people, while containing 15 % of the world’s carbon stock, according to a new report released today at the World Conservation Congress.

Friday, September 7th, 2012

Place Forests Under Local Control to Increase Incomes and Sustainability

To increase the incomes of many of the billion forest-dependent people worldwide the current model for investment in forests must be turned on its head. An initiative of unprecedented scale, led by The Forests Dialogue (TFD), IUCN and  the Growing Forests Partnerships (GFP), has found that optimizing the benefits and productivity of forests requires moving