Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Trimble introduced today a Connected Farm app for smartphone platforms. This free app uses the built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) of the smartphone for collecting in-field information to aid in fast and accurate decision making. The app allows farmers and agronomists to map field boundaries, mark flags, take geo-referenced photos and enter scouting information
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today introduced the WM-Topo survey system, a portable topographic data collection solution for water management which includes a Trimble® Nomad® handheld computer and a pole-mounted Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The announcement was made at the Farm Progress Show.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
URISA is looking forward to its Sixth Caribbean GIS Conference taking place during the week of November 12, 2012 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. GIS professionals from across the region are taking advantage of early registration discounted rates which are only available through Monday, September 10.
Monday, August 27th, 2012
Want a reason to enroll in an online geographic information systems (GIS) degree program? Consider this: When technology historians look back on 2012, they might look at this as the GIS year.
Monday, August 27th, 2012
Optech is pleased to announce the latest addition to its innovative line of ALTM airborne laser terrain mappers, the Optech Orion H300. Built on the award-winning Orion sensor platform, the H300 adds high-altitude capability to a model line that already provides low- and mid-altitude 3D laser scanning solutions for corridor and engineering applications. With a
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
A new rapid damage assessment (RDA) system developed to aid disaster recovery has stormed through its first major test with flying colours. The Western Australian (WA) Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) prototype enables Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams to instantly map property and infrastructure damage using mobile devices.
Friday, August 24th, 2012
MundoGEO, leader on events and publishing magazines and web portals to the geospatial industry in Latin America, in partnership with several companies in the geospatial industry, organized an entire week of online seminars with 3,082 participants in total. The main topics were on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Friday, August 24th, 2012
Scientists are setting sail on August 25 to study ocean acidification in the Arctic and what this means for the future survival of marine and terrestrial organisms. The Arctic Ocean is one of the most vulnerable places on the planet for acidification, yet it is the least-explored ocean. Acidification can disturb the balance of marine
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Kimberly Winton, Ph.D., has been selected as the director of the Department of the Interior’s South Central Climate Science Center (SC CSC), headquartered at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. This is the sixth federally funded center on the OU Research Campus. Winton will be the first permanent director of the new center, which is
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Glaciers are one of the largest reservoirs of freshwater on our planet, and their melting or growing is one of the best indicators of climate change. However, knowledge of glacier change has been hampered by lack of data, especially for understanding regional behaviour.
