Friday, November 4th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) announce the WhereCon 2012 conference, to be held April 10-12 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Online registration for WhereCon 2012 is open and seating is limited. Visit www.wherecon.com for more information.
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Suisse-based “Services Industrielles de Genève (SIG)”, the multi-utility for the city of Geneva, Switzerland, decided after a successful pilot phase to implement the AED-SICAD ArcFM UT product suite including sewage. SIG is also the supplier for the Canton Geneva, thus in total serving approx. 400 000 inhabitants. SIG has been working with GIS technologies since
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Snaking across multiple international boundaries and supporting everything from villages and farms to industry and cities, the Orange-Senqu River is one of the most important natural resources in southern Africa. The complexity and significance of the Orange-Senqu basin made it a clear focus for the Aqueduct project, which aims to measure and map physical, reputational,
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Cambridge Silicon Radio (C.S.R.), a company best-known for Bluetooth technology, has announced a navigation chip that pulls in data from a multiplicity of sources in a way that should improve the quality of satnav information. But its really clever trick is that it should operate indoors. Read More
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Astrium, the European space industry leader, is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the 2nd Soyuz launcher to lift off from Kourou. The six satellites: Pléiades 1 is the first of two very high-resolution satellites manufactured by Astrium Satellites in Toulouse for CNES (the French Space Agency). It will
Friday, November 4th, 2011
NASA’s airborne expedition over Antarctica this October and November has measured the change in glaciers vital to sea level rise projections and mapped others rarely traversed by humans. Operation IceBridge, nearing completion of its third year, is the largest airborne campaign ever flown over the world’s polar regions. Bridging a gap between two ice elevation
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Part of human fascination with space is the chance to look back at our own planet from afar. The unique vantage from the International Space Station affords a vista both breathtaking and scientifically illuminating. Here on Earth, both scientists and spectators rely on the station’s crew to record and transmit images and videos of what
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com ) announces they have acquired Global Mapper LLC of Parker, CO. Blue Marble and Global Mapper share the same common goal of offering powerful user friendly GIS software to all types of users. This merger promises to bring new and exciting tools to Blue Marble and Global Mapper users in the
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
In just a few days, the Department of the Interior will issue a 50-state report outlining the country’s most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world. We are highlighting two projects in each of the 50 states that will be included in the final report – representing what the State governments and local
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Nova Scotia Power is the province’s main electricity provider, serving 490,000 residential and business customers. To deliver better service, the utility built OneGIS, a Web portal that leverages ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The solution, which centralizes all of the utility’s spatial asset data and makes it accessible throughout the organization, allows them to better
