Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
The annual MAPPS Federal Programs Conference opens today in Washington, DC, featuring presentations by Federal agencies, the Obama Administration, members of Congress, and visits to the U.S. House and Senate by MAPPS members.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
The new version of the software for handling RS data – ScanEx Image Processor – is available now for its users. ScanEx RDC specialists issued the new version of the ScanEx Image Processor 3.6 software application. This application has been widely used by different public organizations and private companies in Russia and abroad for in-depth
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that the SMKN 4 Palangkaraya Senior High school, Indonesia, purchased SuperGIS serial products. The educators attempt to utilize the GIS technology to improve the education quality and innovation in geography. The development of technology facilitates the rapid exchange of information. Hence, how to make geographic knowledge easier and accessible to students is crucial
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
SuperGeo announces that SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3 is officially released worldwide. The latest extension contains a number of spatial modeling and analysis algorithms and provides friendly user interface to help user effectively complete complicated spatial analysis tasks. The latest version of SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3.0 supports to import point, line, polygon, and raster data for some
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Calvium announces that the latest app from The Guardian newspaper – “King’s Cross, London – Streetstories” – is being powered by Calvium’s AppFurnace platform. The Guardian app is an immersive audio walking guide with a difference – as users wander through the streets of King’s Cross, the app automatically activates sounds, music and stories relevant to
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Leica Geosystems today released additional features for its guidance systems Leica mojoMINI and Leica mojo3D to further enhance product usability and compatibility. Additional releases are planned for midyear and include an online service to monitor farm equipment as well as a new base station. Read More
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Geoinformation holds enormous potential: “Geoinformation plays an important role in all key sociopolitical issues,” said Prof. Karl-Friedrich Thöne at the INTERGEO Round Table in Karlsruhe. All participants were in agreement with the President of the German Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management (DVW), the organization responsible for hosting INTERGEO from 9 to 11 October
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that the U.A.E. Ministry of the Interior, represented by Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security, has become a Principal Member of the OGC to chair a new, planned international OGC Law Enforcement and Public Safety Working Group. In addition to advancing technical standards and best practices as voting
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
IGN France International and the French IGN (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information), in close cooperation with the Geographic Institute of Burkina Faso (IGB), the Economic Commission for Africa and Esri, are organising a regional seminar entitled: “National Spatial Data Infrastructures: which benefits for African emerging countries?” that will be held on April 3rd
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Earth-observing satellites can map natural phenomena such as floods and earthquakes, track hurricanes and monitor land subsidence across the globe. This information can be valuable to insurance companies for risk and damage assessment. Information obtained by satellite observations can save money and make the insurance industry more efficient.As the insurance industry confronts new challenges – like
