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Monday, August 8th, 2011

2011-2012 GSDI Small Grants Program Announcement

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national, and international spatial data infrastructure developments that would allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance. We are committed to bringing about an infrastructure that will allow users globally to access

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Intergraph Corporation Acquires Augusta Systems, Inc.

Intergraph Corporation, a world leader in public safety, security and infrastructure management software, has acquired Augusta Systems, Inc., an innovator in the intelligent convergence of cameras, sensor systems, and networks that enable detailed, real-time information from facilities, infrastructure, and remote locations. Augusta’s customers have included businesses, governments and defense organizations, such as the U.S. Navy

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

GIS Project Puts Naples on the Map for City Workers

 Information is only useful if you are able to find it. The city of Naples is taking a trove of information about properties in the city, and putting it all together in one place. City records on easements, water and sewer lines, property boundaries and legal descriptions, the coastal control line, fire hydrants — and more

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Human Influence on the 21st Century Climate

New computer modeling work shows that by 2100, if society wants to limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to less than 40 percent higher than it is today, the lowest cost option is to use every available means of reducing emissions. This includes more nuclear and renewable energy, choosing electricity over fossil fuels, reducing emissions

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Interactive Map of US and How Climate Change Will Affect health

On August 3 the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in America launched an interactive map showing US citizens how climate change could affect their health past on existing data. The NRDC is a not-for- profit organization based in the United States and describes itself as an ‘environmental action group’ it has an estimated 1.3 million supporters around

Friday, August 5th, 2011

WindSonic Ultrasonic Wind Sensor

WindSonic is a robust, low cost ultrasonic wind sensor with no moving parts. This 2-axis ultrasonic wind sensor offers maintenance-free wind speed and direction monitoring for true ‘fit and forget’ wind sensing. The Gill WindSonic is a genuine low cost alternative to conventional cup and vane or propeller wind sensors, with all of the advantages of

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Ubisense Opens Door to Chinese Manufacturing with Product Certification

Ubisense announces that its Series 7000 real-time location system (RTLS) industrial tags and sensors have been certified for use in China by the country’s stringent regulatory authorities – a development that opens up enormous commercial opportunities to the business, which listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in June.

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Earth from Space: Madagascar Jellyfish

The Betsiboka estuary in northwest Madagascar is pictured in this image from Japan’s ALOS observation satellite. Here, the country’s largest river flows into Bombetoka Bay, which then opens into the Mozambique Channel.The red colouring of the sandbars and islands between the ‘jellyfish tentacles’ comes from sediments washed from hills and into the streams and rivers during

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Esri to Exhibit CityEngine at SIGGRAPH 2011

Esri will exhibit and teach a course about CityEngine, its software for 3D modeling and urban planning, at the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference in Vancouver, Canada, August 7–11. The SIGGRAPH conference is one of the world’s largest exhibitions for the computer graphics industry.

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Magellan Adds DigitalGlobe Satellite and Aerial Maps for eXplorist

Magellan GPS today introduced a new series of worldwide satellite and aerial imagery-enhanced maps for its Magellan eXplorist and Magellan Triton handheld GPS units. The new maps provide Magellan handheld GPS users with high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery from DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of earth imagery solutions. Detailed and precise overhead pictures of their surroundings will