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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Open Source GIS Workshop at URISA Office in Suburban Chicago

URISA, the Association for GIS Professionals, is offering the full-day certified workshop, An Overview of Open Source GIS Software, at its headquarters office in Des Plaines, IL on Thursday, June 21, 2012.

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

SimActive Completes RADARSAT-2 Study for DSM Generation

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce the completion of a study for the Centre for Topographic Information of Natural Resources Canada on digital surface model (DSM) generation from RADARSAT-2 imagery using Correlator3D™.  The purpose of the project was to determine the maximum achievable accuracy over mixed terrain such as

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Esri Supports USAID Crowdsourcing Event

Esri will closely support the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at the agency’s first-ever crowdsourcing initiative to make international development data accessible and transparent. The initiative will kick off at the USAID Innovation Lab in Washington, DC, at noon on Friday, June 1, 2012, and continue virtually until Sunday, June 3. Esri will participate

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

OpenGeo Introduces Client SDK, Improved Raster Support and More

Today OpenGeo released version 2.5 of their flagship product, The OpenGeo Suite. Version 2.5 bundles many improvements and bug fixes from the open source communities and adds special OpenGeo features, including a toolkit for developing and deploying applications powered by the OpenGeo Suite, and improved raster format support. OpenGeo, an innovator who introduced unlimited support

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Cryosat Aids Knowledge of the Ocean Floor

CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor is now being added to the ice mission’s repertoire.

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Kuwait University Selected SuperGIS for Community Services and Continuing Education

The latest SuperGIS Desktop 3.1, developed by SuperGeo, is adopted by the Centre for Community Services and Continuing Education, Kuwait University to integrate, edit, display, and analyze all types of spatial data and enhance the usability of spatial data and sources. SuperGeo local partner, IIES, has constantly offered training course to the faculty and students

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

New Release of SuperGIS Biodiversity Analyst 3.0

SuperGeo announces that SuperGIS Biodiversity Analyst 3.0 is officially launched. The analysis tool is one of SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 extensions that used to analyze and explore the richness, diversity, and evenness of the distribution of flora and fauna.

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Intermap and Blue Marble Announce Strategic Partnership

Intermap and Blue Marble Geographics, two of the world’s leading providers of highly accurate geospatial data solutions, announced a strategic partnership today to integrate Intermap’s NEXTMap dataset with Blue Marble’s Global Mapper software. Users can see the value of this integration during an online workshop scheduled for Thursday, June 14th at 2 p.m. EDT when

Friday, May 25th, 2012

GMES in Action Conference in Copenhagen

The ‘GMES in Action’ conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 4–5 June, highlighting the usefulness of Europe’s space programme for the GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative to decision-makers and European citizens alike.

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

“My American Landscape” Contest: A Space Chronicle of Change

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the United States’ Landsat Earth-observing program — which first rocketed into space on July 23, 1972 — NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey are giving something special to a few members of the American public. We will create customized Landsat chronicles of changing local landscapes for six U.S. citizens