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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Soil Protection Activities & Soil Quality Monitoring in South Eastern Europe

The conference “Soil Protection Activities and Soil Quality Monitoring in South Eastern Europe (SEE)” was organized in Sarajevo as a joint action by the Soil Science Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Soil Science Society of Slovenia. The main objectives of conference were to review the soil protection and soil quality monitoring activities in

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

MecSoft Receives Autodesk Inventor Certification

MecSoft Europe GmbH announced today that VisualXPORT is certified for use with Autodesk Inventor 2011 and 2012 mechanical design and engineering software under the Inventor Certified Applications Program. The certification of VisualXPORT gives Autodesk Inventor software users access to a family of CAM products that will help enhance their manufacturing processes. Read More

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

SuperGIS Server 3 Offers Silverlight API to Customize Websites

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that Silverlight API is now available in its latest server GIS software, SuperGIS Server 3.0 Value Edition. SuperGIS Server 3.0 Value Edition provides multiple Web APIs to assist developers in efficiently developing various Web applications. SuperGIS Server 3 can effectively manage and integrate numerous types of GIS

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Italy Albignasego City Government Selected SuperPad 3 for Field Survey

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that its exclusive partner in Italy, Helix S.r.l., has successfully promoted SuperPad 3 to the Technical Division at Albignasego City in Italy. Located around 35 kilometers west from Venice, Albignasego is a municipality in the Province of Padua, Italy. Ufficio Tecnico, Comune di Albignasego, namely the

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Fosters + Partners and Halcrow to Publish Thames Hub Vision

World-leading architects Foster + Partners and global infrastructure consultants Halcrow have been collaborating on a self-funded £100,000 study to produce a detailed vision for The Thames Hub – this would bring together rail freight connections between the UK’s main sea ports; a 150 million passenger airport to replace Heathrow; a tidal energy barrage and a

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Sentinel Asia JPTM2011 Held

The 4th Joint Project Team Meeting (JPTM2011) for Sentinel Asia Step 2 was successfully held from July 12 to 14, 2011, in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The JPTM2011 confirmed steady  progress on Sentinel Asia Step 2 and established the new “Tsunami” working group following the ongoing working groups of Wildfire, Flood, and Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) monitoring. Read More  

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Aligned Assets – Two More Fire Services Select Symphony Bluelight

Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service and Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service are the latest organisations to select Aligned Assets as the supplier for their gazetteer management systems. Both have chosen Symphony Bluelight, the UK’s only gazetteer system built specifically for the emergency services and compatible with the National Address Gazetteer. Built around the Symphony Bluelight

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

GISLERS and EnviSDI Summer Schools

The Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) hosted two Summer Schools from June 27 – July 8, 2011. More than 60 international participants from partner institutions as well as from the private industries and other higher education or research institutions attended the course in Salzburg. The events were co-financed by the Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP) under the

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Z_GIS Research: SMART Project started

This project on “Smart aquifer characterisation of New Zealand’s aquifers” will identify, develop, apply, validate and optimise a suite of novel methods for accurate, rapid and cost-effective characterisation and mapping of New Zealand’s aquifer systems. Z_GIS will set-up an operational Sensor Observation Service in order to validate remote sensing applications done by partner institutions. Based on

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

URISA Offer Attracts More Than 500 New Members

 Last December, the URISA Board of Directors decided to reach out to GIS professionals who had not previously been URISA members and offer them a significantly discounted membership opportunity. So far, more than 500 individuals have taken advantage of the offer to join URISA for $20. In addition to the URISA Digest and THE GIS PROFESSIONAL