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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

EPA Announces Final Study Plan to Assess Hydraulic Fracturing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced its final research plan on hydraulic fracturing. At the request of Congress, EPA is working to better understand potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. Natural gas plays a key role in our nation’s clean energy future and the Obama Administration is committed to ensuring

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Take the ‘Business Value of OGC Standards’ Survey!

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), a strategic partner of EuroGeographics announced a Business Value Survey for the period 1st November – 18th December 2011 to support the study on standards effectiveness. The OGC Business Value Committee will use a summary of the results to help the OGC better understand the value of the OGC’s open standards and

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Richmond-based Company to Build Mobile Satellite Receiving Stations

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates’ (MDA) latest foray into space on behalf of the Canadian military involves work on earth with the construction of two mobile satellite receiving stations that will download imagery for use in tactical mapping and civilian disaster relief. The stations go by the technical description of unclassified remote-sensing situational awareness systems, and Richmond-based

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

DepictionPrep Now Available

From wildfires to floods, hurricanes to tornadoes—and even earthquakes and tsunamis—the events of 2011 have served as stark reminders that disasters can strike anywhere. A new software tool is now available to help individuals, families and neighborhoods prepare for these risks more effectively. DepictionPrep preparedness mapping software is a powerful, engaging and even fun new way

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

GeoEye Announces Michael P.C. Carns (USAF Ret.) as New Board Member

GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced today that it has appointed General Michael P. C. Carns (retired USAF) to serve on its board of directors. He joins nine other board members. General Carns has been appointed as the board representative of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. GeoEye partnered with Cerberus, which

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

COM.Geo 2012 Call For Submissions

The COM.Geo 2011 and 2010 conferences made great successes. There were 14 keynote speakers from governments, universities, and leading industries and 200+ speakers around the world at the COM.Geo 2011 and 2010.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Socium – Let the Revolution Begin

At Socium we believe in revolutionising our industry so that the value and benefits of spatial data are opened up and made available to everyone. We also believe in providing innovative products to make this a reality regardless of your technical knowledge or budget. We know that having confidence in your data is vital so that

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Italy Municipality of Recanati Selected SuperGIS Desktop 3 for Land Planning

SuperGeo Technologies announced that Municipality of Recanati in Italy purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 to assist in the service planning and development of land and buildings. The procurement is contributed by Helix S.r.l., the exclusive distributor of SuperGeo in Italy.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Taipei City Department of Transportation Adopts SuperWebGIS to Provide Real-time Traffic Information

SuperWebGIS is the map server software being able to publish dynamic maps and GIS data to the Internet. SuperWebGIS provides the scalable framework, highly supports geodatabases, and offers complete GIS objects and various website templates. Therefore, SuperWebGIS can meet the demands of publishing and displaying the spatial data to efficiently achieve the goal of data

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Water Way to Cover Costs in Poland

There were reports in the press this week that Polish citizens could see the price of water rocket sky high over the coming four years. According to an article in TVN24’s business section, if tens of billions of zlotys are not spent on upgrading the country’s sewage system and sewage treatment plants, then Poland may find