Thursday, September 8th, 2011
NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) plans to launch weather balloons carrying small instruments that collect and transmit wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and relative humidity data Sept. 12-20 from the Duke Energy Ocotillo Wind Farm located near Forsan, Texas.
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
URISA’s Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Awards recognize exceptional achievements in the application of information technology that have improved the delivery and quality of government services. URISA is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s ESIG Awards.
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
NOAA, Shell Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips and Statoil USA E&P Inc. in August signed an agreement to share scientific data sets on ocean, coastal and climate science for the Arctic. This agreement provides a framework among the signatories to share high-quality data, including weather and ocean observations, biological information, and sea ice and seafloor mapping
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
GISproject LLC in alliance with OpenGeo will substantially improve customer service for Russian geospatial software users. GISproject will host training programs and has applied for approval to provide first line support for the OpenGeo Suite. Local support includes: installation, localization and configuration of the OpenGeo Suite. OpenGeo will continue to offer complete technical support for
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Autodesk Inc. will host a webinar to discuss its Architecture, Engineering and Construction business segment. Jay Bhatt, senior vice president, Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry Group at Autodesk will conduct a brief slide presentation followed by a question and answer session.
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
The EU-funded GalileoCast project brings together three small companies to develop innovative weather-related services that use satellite positioning technologies. ‘GalileoRoads’ is one such service being launched by this project, using hybrid methods that combine fixed and mobile meteorological observations to produce very-high-resolution road condition models and weather forecasts. Read More
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Esri UK announced that it has renewed an agreement to make GIS software available to colleges and universities in the UK and Ireland, at a substantially reduced price, through an Eduserv Chest agreement. The new three year agreement adds to Esri UK’s existing 19 year participation in Chest through which 80 per cent of UK
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
World’s largest forum for presenting new agricultural machinery and equip-ment – Gold and Silver Medals for innovations – Attractive magazines with details of all company innovations – Innovations to be published on the inter-net in early October. DLG). Agritechnica is the world’s largest forum for presenting new agricultural machinery and equipment. This year the exhibition
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
BIMx (Building Information Model Explorer) is an interactive environment with game-like navigation, whereby anyone can explore full BIM models without holding a license of the professional authoring software in which the building model was originally created. ArchiCAD users have been able to publish self-running BIMx models for their clients to run on desktop computers (Win/Mac) – now
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
The organisers of the 2nd European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) to be held in Salzburg, Austria from November 29-30, have today launched the 2011 programme. The programme promotes a truly international theme where speakers in the international LIDAR community represent nearly 20 countries from all over the world: UAE, Russia, Australia, USA, Canada and several European countries including
