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Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Call for Papers: Global Geospatial Conference 2012

We are delighted to announce that the GSDI World Conference (GSDI 13), 14th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Canadian Geomatics Conference (CGC) 2012 and the 7th 3D GeoInfo Conference will be jointly held as the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 to take place at the Québec City Convention Center from May 14-17, 2012. 

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Envitia is the First Vendor to Support New RTIG Data Standards

Envitia is pleased to announce that its CUTLAS-RTI bus real time information system now supports the RTIG-Inform Digital Air Interface Protocol (DAIP). CUTLAS-RTI is first to market with open standards-based data exchange support. CUTLAS–RTI has a number of open interfaces to enable Bus Operatorsto access strategy-driven functions that can selectively alert on bus operations. This can be used to detect

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

First Galileo Satellite Touches Down in French Guiana

The first Galileo navigation satellite has arrived in Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, ready to begin preparations for launch on 20 October. Packed within its protective, air-conditioned container, the satellite landed at Cayenne Rochambeau Airport aboard an Antonov aircraft at 06:45 local time on Wednesday 7 September, having departed from Thales Alenia Space Italy’s Rome facility,

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Government Willing to Negotiate on Planning Reforms

Government officials are willing to negotiate concessions to planning reforms in order to placate opponents of the introduction of a planned presumption in favour of sustainable development, Building understands. The admission comes as the battle between the government and an increasingly organised group of anti-development and conservation campaigners over the proposed National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

Friday, September 9th, 2011

SAP to Acquire 3D Visualization Software Maker Right Hemisphere

 As part of its mission to help customers innovate the way they do business, SAP AG will acquire Right Hemisphere, a leading provider of visual enterprise solutions based in San Ramon, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. The 3-D model-based visualization and communications technologies from Right Hemisphere will enhance SAP software and enable visual navigation and interrogation of an entire product

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Land Quality and Land Use Information in the European Union

This monograph contains a selection of scientific papers presented on the conference on Land Quality and Land Use Information in the European Union, hold in Keszthely, Hungary. It covers topics related to various aspects of land quality including: concepts of assessment; evaluation of biomass productivity; bio-indicators of land quality; quality assessment of degraded land; land

Friday, September 9th, 2011

MapInfo Manager Updated, version 1.2

MapInfo Manager is part of the MapInfo suite for Enterprise Location Intelligence.  It is ideal for establishing a Single Point of Truth of spatial assets for spatial data custodians and GIS managers, through fast, efficient, intuitive metadata management. This is the third release of the product by Pitney Bowes Business Insight in a year, as

Friday, September 9th, 2011

NAVTEQ LocationPoint Ad Network Adds Millions

NAVTEQ has signed Appello as a publisher of the expanding NAVTEQ LocationPoint hyperlocal mobile ad network. The deal extends the reach of one of the fastest growing location-aware mobile ad networks in the world to millions of users of Appello’s Wisepilot mobile navigation service.

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Verified Carbon Standard for REDD Approved

The Verified Carbon Standard is pleased to announce that the following module revision has been approved for use under the VCS Program: VMD0007 – REDD Methodological Module: Estimation of baseline carbon stock changes and greenhouse gas emissions from unplanned deforestation (BL-UP)The module, revised by The Field Museum, can be used to estimate baseline deforestation rates for

Friday, September 9th, 2011

AAM Hosts Australian Geocortex User Conference

AAM will host the first Australian Geocortex User Conference in Melbourne from 10th – 11th October in Melbourne. Geocortex is the Industry Leader in Web Mapping. The workshop will outline the benefitsof using Geocortex within the workplace and will demonstrate how Geocortex can provide simple and effective solutions to their web mapping requirements. AAM’s Geocortex Product Manager, John Blackburn,