Friday, September 7th, 2012
U.S. Geological Survey researchers are among an international group of scientists setting sail Aug. 25 on a voyage to explore the Arctic. This will be a five-week expedition aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy.
Friday, September 7th, 2012
More government agencies and nongovernmental organizations want citizens to contribute volunteered geographic information (VGI), such as reports of potholes in their communities or georeferenced photographs of flooding, earthquake damage, or fires, to a web map. Other organizations only give certain employees permission to edit geographic data.
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
A prominent Australian medical researcher has used the region’s largest geospatial conference to back the crucial role of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology in understanding the links between health and where we reside, work and play. During her keynote address at the Ozri 2012 conference in Sydney today, Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Associate Professor Robyn Clark
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
The IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest and most important conservation event, begins today on Jeju Island, South Korea. More than 8,000 people from more than 170 countries are in Jeju to discuss, debate and vote on solutions to some of the globe’s most pressing environmental and development issues.
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of satellites announced today that it will take part in INTERGEO, an event that RapidEye has been involved with for more than five years running. This year, Europe’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management will be held in Hannover from October
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Blue Marble Desktop v2.5. This release introduces new powerful geodetic tools, new time dependent transformations and file formats. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas , mining,
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is heading into a busy conference season, exhibiting at six different tradeshows this fall.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed Trevor Taylor to the position of Director, Services for the Americas.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
The newest version of desktop GIS mapping software, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a Beta 3 developed by SuperGeo, is available now. Featuring plentiful GIS tools and user-friendly manipulation environment, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a allows GIS experts to display, edit, manage, query, and analyze diverse spatial data effectively.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced to receive the ‘Asian Geospatial Excellence Award – Disaster Management’ by means of ‘Emergency Response and Disaster Prevention System’ which is developed by Environmental Management Consultants Technologies Inc (EMCT). The Web GIS system is utilized by Atomic Energy Council (AEC), Taiwan for
