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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

LizardTech Exhibits at GEOINT 2012 Symposium

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting at GEOINT 2012 Symposium at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla., October 9-11, 2012 in booth number 420. LizardTech will be conducting product demonstrations for the defense audience of recently launched Express Server® 8 software for serving imagery, now with a brand new

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

New Leica GNSS Antenna Ideal for Reference Station and Monitoring Applications

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce its latest innovation in 3D GNSS choke ring antenna. The new Leica AR20 with its revolutionary design brings new levels of performance for reference station and monitoring applications. Outstanding tracking performance, excellent phase center symmetry and unmatched multipath suppression across all GNSS frequency bands are the hallmarks of this

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

Professional Development Workshops Offered at Joint Specialty Conference October 30

Prior to the start of the MAPPS-ASPRS Joint Specialty Conference October 29-November 1 in Tampa, FL, three important workshops will be presented that may contribute to continuing professional development of geospatial practitioners and contracting officers. The workshops include Licensing of Photogrammetrists and Other Geospatial Practitioners, QBS Contracting for Geospatial Services and Preparing Independent Government Cost

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

USGS Inducted into the 2012 URISA GIS Hall of Fame

Owing to 50 years of cutting-edge developments and significant contributions in advancing the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial sciences, the U.S. Geological Survey has been selected to enter the Urban and Regional Information System Association GIS Hall of Fame.

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Manitoba to Drive Increased Efficiency with Spatial Data Infrastructure

Esri Canada today announced that the Government of Manitoba has selected the company to provide geographic information system (GIS) technology and services for creating a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for the province. The SDI supports increased efficiency through a shared structure that will bring together all of Manitoba’s government mapping data and services. This will allow

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Climate Change to Cripple Southwestern Forests

Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States. That’s the word from a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Arizona, and other

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

Cadcorp Announces Partnership with MapSoft for the Serbian Geospatial Market

British developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, Cadcorp, has formed a partnership with the Belgrade-based geomatics specialist MapSoft Ltd. The 17 person company which was founded in 2002 by academics from the Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the University of Belgrade, is a respected supplier of software and services to the GIS market

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Landsat Satellites Find the ‘Sweet Spot’ for Crops

Farmer Gary Wagner walks into his field where the summer leaves on the sugar beet plants are a rich emerald hue — not necessarily a good color when it comes to sugar beets, either for the environment or the farmer. That hue tells Wagner that he’s leaving money in the field in unused nitrogen fertilizer,

Friday, September 28th, 2012

The OGC Forms GeoPackage Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC® Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG) to advance the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard. The OGC members convening this group invite the public to comment on the GeoPackage SWG charter (https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/50347) and will consider comments received before 11 October 2012.

Friday, September 28th, 2012

TerraGo Expands Global Partner Network with Addition of Russian Reseller

TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial collaboration software solutions, has expanded its global partner network with the addition of a reseller in Russia to meet growing demands and better serve customers in the region.