Friday, October 14th, 2011
The subtropical Canary Islands off Africa’s west coast are pictured in this Envisat image. The Canary Islands’ favourable climate and beaches attract over 12 million visitors per year. Perhaps some beach-goers were on those aircraft that left the multiple contrails over the dark blue water to the north.Because the archipelago is far away from areas with
Friday, October 14th, 2011
exactEarth announced today that it has surpassed the 3 billion mark for maritime vessel location messages delivered to its customers to date in 2011. With a growing, advanced high performance satellite constellation coupled with a dedicated data processing center in Toronto, Canada, exactEarth is delivering an unprecedented operational capability of Satellite Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) for
Friday, October 14th, 2011
RapidEye, a leader in wide area, repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of five satellites announced today that it has secured a multimillion Euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA).
Friday, October 14th, 2011
The launch of the multi-purpose satellite Arirang 5 has been postponed indefinitely after notice from Russia. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology on Wednesday, the decision was caused by internal circumstances facing the Russian government and Cosmotrust, the Russian launch service company. Read More
Friday, October 14th, 2011
The rich environment of the southern Strait of Georgia is slated to become a national marine conservation area, giving extra protection to the marine life and water, but allowing most recreational and commercial activities to continue. Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent, speaking Thursday at Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre in Sidney, said that after years of discussion,
Friday, October 14th, 2011
BCS is delighted to announce the formation of the new Location Information Specialist Group (LISG) built on the foundations of the existing and successful BCS Geospatial Specialist Group. As part of the extension of the role of the Specialist Group, it is also able to announce that it is taking over responsibility for the Digital
Friday, October 14th, 2011
ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available from the Esri Support Center. This service pack contains several performance improvements and maintenance fixes and is available for the following languages: Read More
Friday, October 14th, 2011
Thanks to developing technologies and modern survey methods, such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), it is now possible to obtain more consistent and accurate standards of mapping data. The Positional Improvement Project, which examines the accuracy of features of LPS Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) maps, will deliver significant improvements to the quality of
Friday, October 14th, 2011
The PhD course in Nordic Forest Governance will be held at SLU Umeå in Sweden November 7-November 11, with a final seminar December 8. The first week will cover lectures and workshops on governance as a theme in systems with very different types of forest owners and interests. It also includes workshops on qualitative and
Friday, October 14th, 2011
NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) is the first mission designed to collect critical data to improve weather forecasts in the short-term and increase our understanding of long-term climate
