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Monday, July 2nd, 2012

New GIS Tool for Planning and Managing Shale Oil, Shale Gas and Coal Bed Methane Projects

Exprodat has announced the release of Team-GIS Unconventionals Analyst, an ArcGIS Desktop extension for planning and managing shale oil, shale gas and coal bed methane projects. Using Team-GIS Unconventionals Analyst geologists, petroleum engineers and reserves analysts can ensure compliant reserves and reduce drilling costs. The application runs as an extension to Esri’s ArcGIS Desktop tool. 

Friday, June 29th, 2012

ESA and China Collaborate to Take Earth Observation to New Heights

ESA and China have been cooperating through the Dragon Programme since 2004 to encourage the use of Earth observation in China. Building on the success of the past years, the programme is taking on more momentum as it enters its third phase.

Friday, June 29th, 2012

GeoEye Receives $111 Million Cost-Share Payment from the NGA

GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced the receipt of a $111 million cost-share payment from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In early June, the company successfully passed a major milestone in their GeoEye-2 satellite’s development as part of the NGA’s EnhancedView program, triggering this cost-share payment.

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

Eye on Earth Network Launched at RIO+20

  I’ve been selfishly waiting to complete the launch of Eye on Earth Network before sharing more information about the status of Eye on Earth. Last September my team at Microsoft began working with Esri and the European Environment Agency to expand the capability of Eye on Earth – transforming it from a bespoke solution

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

American Sentinel University Appoints Geospatial Technology Educator Dr. Stephen McElroy

American Sentinel University, a leading online university accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, today announced that Dr. Stephen McElroy has joined the university as geographic information systems (GIS) program chair effective June 18, 2012.

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

Aerial Surveys International Invests in Optech Orion M300 Lidar

    Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the sale of an integrated airborne surveying and mapping system to Aerial Surveys International, LLC, of Watkins, CO. The system includes an Optech Orion M300 ALTM pre-configured for an Optech medium- format

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

Carbon County, Montana Improves Public Safety with TerraGo GeoPDF Maps and Imagery

Carbon County, MT has produced a TerraGo GeoPDF digital atlas using TerraGo PublisherTM for ArcGIS software to improve emergency response times for non-GIS trained public safety personnel and first responders in support of an E-911 services implementation. When the large, rural county initially implemented a new addressing system, it was met by confusion among first

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Education and Excitement as GIS-Pro 2012 Approaches

GIS-Pro 2012: URISA’s 50th Annual Conference for GIS Professionals will take place September 30 – October 4, 2012 in Portland, Oregon. As this milestone conference approaches, URISA is pleased that both attendance and reservation numbers are tracking significantly ahead of recent years. URISA emanated from conferences held from 1963 through 1966. These events were known

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

David Wesloh Receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) in Exeter, England, David Wesloh received the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded each year to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGC’s vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the world’s information systems.

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

SuperGeo Enhances GIS Learning CD and GPS Learning CD

SuperGeo is pleased to announce the updates for GPS Learning CD and GIS Learning CD. After collecting the user feedback and enhancing the text content, SuperGeo Press now re-issued the 2 learning CDs, facilitating users to learn GPS and GIS knowledge clearly with vivid flash animation.