Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Steve Riley, technical leader, office of the chief technology officer (CTO) at Riverbed Technology, will provide the Keynote Address at this year’s Esri Developer Summit. Riley’s keynote, entitled In the Cloud, Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong, will seek to dispel myths and misunderstandings about the cloud and give a fresh perspective on geospatial
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Europe has been making the news for the wrong reasons recently. Today I want to rewrite the headlines. While clearly we have difficulties, we are taking the right decisions to ensure an economic road to recovery. Europe is most definitely open for business. As the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, I am responsible for
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Global geoinformation technologies and first of all Earth remote sensing from space, satellite-based navigation and Internet geoportals have certainly considerably changed and keep on changing our lives. A certain turnaround in the minds of people deserves mentioning: in the new world of open data it is easier to feel comfort and to actually become not
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
The leaders of 12 companies signed a charter that brought the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance to life with a collective commitment to focus on tailings ponds, greenhouse gas emissions, water and land issues. “You have a very, very public, transparent commitment here,” said alliance chairman Dan Wicklum. “So I think the message that they’re giving
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
In the early hours of 1 March 2002, the largest Earth observation satellite ever built soared into orbit from ESA’s launch base in Kourou, French Guiana. For a decade, Envisat has been keeping watch over our planet.
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Software and hardware engineering efforts at ITRES have moved into the next phase towards integrating our In-Flight Processing System (IPS) development with new highresolution pushframe thermal TABI-1800 imager. “This is a big milestone for us. It moves us closer to our planned goal of offering real search and rescue (SAR) capability to our imaging product
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Government agencies with geospatial or data visualization requirements might want to take at a close look at Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows, the motion-sensor peripheral originally created for the Xbox 360. Read More
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Timmons Group recently developed and released a field inspection and data collection mobile application for Prince William County, Virginia. The solution is tablet-enabled and allows Prince William field staff to realize significant return on investment (ROI) by using their iPad2 tablets to streamline their daily inspection workflows. Approximately one thousand storm water management ponds needing
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Backcountry skiers and snowboarders have a new tool to explore regional daily avalanche-danger levels. A web-based map, created by students and faculty at Western Washington University (WWU), takes the regional avalanche forecasts issued by the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center and displays the same information spatially. Read More
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Esri has released the second in the Mapping the Nation series, Mapping the Nation: Government and Technology Making a Difference. Including more than 100 full-color maps produced by 40 government agencies, it clearly illustrates how GIS technology can be used to evaluate and respond to social, economic, and environmental concerns at local, regional, national, and
