Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
We remind you that there are only six weeks left before the deadline for abstracts and full paper submissions for Global Geospatial Conference 2012. The Call for Papers may be found at and the deadline for abstracts and/or papers for the refereed and non-refereed publications is November 15. This conference will be a leading event in 2012 for
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
The LfS site highlights the wide range of social skills and processes that are needed to support constructive collaboration, and indicates how these skills and processes can be interwoven to achieve more integrated and effective outcomes. It brings links to several hundred annotated on-line resources from different sectors and geographic areas together in one easy to access place, and it
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced the project finalists in the 2011 Be Inspired Awards competition and the four winners of the 2011 Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving and sustaining the world’s infrastructure. Five
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The 2012 URISA Leadership Academy (ULA) will take place June 11-15, 2012 at the Hilton Savannah Desoto in Savannah, Georgia. The ULA is a unique opportunity to enhance GIS leadership skills while learning and working with established instructors and professionals in the field. ULA instructors bring extensive knowledge and experience to each session and use
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The Department of the Interior today released a report that assesses the status of scientific information available to help understand the impacts of climate change and other stressors on U.S. freshwater resources and calls for modernization of systems to help monitor and sustain water supplies. The report to Congress reviews the state of existing science
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Protecting the environment requires monitoring land, sea and air conditions, as well as human activity that impacts these resources. It involves collecting, producing and sharing a large amount of data with government agencies, scientists and the public. To efficiently support these processes, Environment Canada built an enterprise Web mapping system based on ESRI’s geographic information
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that it has received the 2011 Oracle® Spatial Excellence Award for Partnership. The award recognizes Bentley’s long-term, broad support of Oracle Spatial in its extensive portfolio of geospatial desktop and server products, including Bentley Map, Bentley Electric, Bentley
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Addressing delegates at Metering and Billing CRM Europe in the Netherlands next week, Frank Hyldmar, Executive Vice President, Elster Electricity International, will explore the crucial challenge of security in the Smart Grid. Ahead of the conference, Hyldmar, who is chairing the ‘Ensuring security and privacy’ session stated: “We encourage all utilities and industry players to put security at
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
On-Ramp Wireless today announced its partnership with leading meter data management system (MDMS) solution provider Ecologic Analytics. With its simple star topology infrastructure, On-Ramp’s Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP) wireless infrastructure system works with Ecologic’s MDMS solution to provide a pre-validated, pre-integrated communications solution for multi-service utilities. Yesterday, On-Ramp announced its meter communication modules for the Smart Meter
