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Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Esri Maps the Impacts of Recent Storms

Explore the impacts of the recent storms with the Esri Story Map. Preconfigured views for Washington, D.C. and Baltimore provide an in-depth look at vulnerable populations and health care access in these metropolitan areas.

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

OGC Requests Web Map Service Clients (WMS) Reference Implementations

To support compliance testing, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations for client software that implements the OGC Web Map Service (WMS) 1.3 Interface Standard. Development and testing of WMS 1.3 Reference Implementations will be coordinated and managed as part of the Compliance and Interoperability Testing & Evaluation (CITE) Thread in this year’s major

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Retires

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has put the GIOVE-A satellite into retirement, ending a successful extended mission for the European Commission’s Galileo satellite navigation programme under the supervision of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Biomass Burning Really Heats Things Up

Emissions from forest fires and other biomass burning has a greater impact on global warming than previously understood, according to a new study.

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Geospatial Technology Can Light Up Electric Utilities

Advanced geospatial technology is crucial if Australian utilities are to tackle the industry’s biggest challenges, according to a leading international geo-utilities expert.  Bill Meehan, Global Director for Utilities at Esri – the world’s largest GIS software company – was in Australia this week to address the region’s top utilities on the issue of spatially enabling

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Singapore’s National Environment Agency Collaborates With IBM To Improve Environmental Services Related To Air, Weather And Public Health

The National Environment Agency (NEA) and IBM today announced a three-year research collaboration and signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) under which IBM researchers will work with NEA to develop advanced modelling and predictive capabilities to address key environmental concerns in Singapore such as air quality, extreme weather events, dengue outbreaks and food poisoning incidents.

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Pro-Poor Land Program Unveiled for Myanmar

Non-government organisations working on agriculture-related issues last week launched a plan aimed at protecting the land use rights of the country’s smallholder farmers. The Land Core Group Program Plan, which was in development for nine months, runs until the end of 2014 and “is meant to serve as a framework to guide all agencies and

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

OpenGeo to Present at Geoinformatics Forum 2012 in Salzburg, Austria

OpenGeo, the company committed to bringing the best enterprise open source geospatial software and support to organizations and governments worldwide, will be an active participant in this year’s Geoinformatics Forum taking place in Salzburg, Austria from July 3-6, 2012 at the University of Salzburg. This international, English-language event will run concurrently with the highly regarded

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

1Spatial launches the UKPostcodeValidator Transformer for FME

1Spatial is delighted to announce the launch of a new FME transformer to help you quickly and easily prepare your postcode data for more effective geocoding, without incurring any additional costs. Recently unveiled at the FME World Tour event in London, hosted by 1Spatial and STAR-APIC, the UKPostcodeValidator is now available in the ‘FME Store’

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

ESA’s Water Mission Improves Satellite Measurements

Over a dozen radio signals that have hindered data collection on ESA’s SMOS water mission have been switched off. The effort also benefits satellites such as NASA’s Aquarius mission, which measures ocean salinity at the same frequency.