Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Climate change, growing consumption and urbanisation, spiralling resource use and new health risks are just some of the global pressures the world will face in the 21st Century. These are the findings from the Assessment of Global Megatrends, launched in November 2010 as part of the State and Outlook of the European Environment Report (SOER)
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
MAPPS has elected Tim Stagg of AeroMetric as one of three new members to serve a one year term on the board of directors. In addition, Stagg was elected secretary of the board. Stagg, a vice president of business development, is responsible for leading AeroMetric’s nationwide mapping and geospatial services for federal, energy infrastructure and transportation
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Blue Marble Desktop v2.3. With this release come many new & exciting features that will allow users and managers to expand their usage of the Blue Marble Desktop within their respective organizations. Version 2.3 adds key functionality enhancements that grant
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
3-GIS, an Alabama based GIS software development company, has announced that MCNC has signed a contract with 3-GIS to deploy Express Solution, the web-based GIS management solution.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
URISA and the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) are pleased to announce the feature speakers at the 2011 URISA/NENA Addressing Conference taking place next month in New Orleans (August 15-18, 2011 at the Marriott New Orleans). Michelle Thompson, PhD from the University of New Orleans will open the conference and Steven Johnson, representing OpenStreetMap US,
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
This Envisat image is dominated by southern Argentina, with the mountainous terrain of the Andes in Chile to the west (left). The lush, snow-capped mountains slope into the arid inland areas of Argentina’s Chubut province and neighbouring Santa Cruz province to its south – home to a series of plateaus and depressions.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
With approximately 600 articles in 4 volumes, Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia is a comprehensive review of key biological and geographic classifications tied to the high-school and college curriculum. The reference work will cover the broad scope of biomes and ecosystems around the world, from puddles on the street to coral reefs in Australia to rain forests
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
The Institute for Photogrammetry, Univ. of Stuttgart is pleased to continue its series of successful tutorials as pre-events of the Photogrammetric Week Series. This year’s tutorial is held on Sunday, Sept. 4th, 2011 and will lecture “All About Point Clouds” (see attachment). You are cordially invited! Just in case, you have not yet got the
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, has announced a reseller agreement with the Spanish company Prodevelop, specialists in providing open source GIS solutions. This partnership enables Prodevelop to provide first-line customer support for local users of the OpenGeo Suite.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Satellite navigation system maker TomTom posted a loss of €489m in the second quarter of this year, due to a one-off impairment charge of €512m as the market for personal devices continues to decline. Second-quarter turnover was down 13% on a year ago at €314m. In June, TomTom reduced its full year sales forecast to between
