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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

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Javad Petitions for End to P-Code

Encrypting GPS P-codes is a step backward in providing the best of this excellent work of science and art. As the leader in GPS technology, we consider P-codes encryption as being neither good science nor good politics. Our campaign against Selective Availability was successful. Please join the efforts to end P-codes encryption now. Please read background

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

National Archives Extends UK Govt Licensing Framework

The National Archives has extended the UK government licensing framework, which provides a policy and legal overview for licensing the re-use of public sector information, to cover as many licensing scenarios as possible. Speaking exclusively to GGC, Jim Wretham, head of information policy at National Archives, said the organisation had: Extended the UK government licensing framework so

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Climate Change, Deforestation and the Future of African Rainforests

The Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests will host an international conference to provide a multidisciplinary examination of the effects of climate change and deforestation on the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Indonesia – Register Online for the GCF’s Annual Meeting

The GCF’s Annual Meeting in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia is just a few months away on September 20-22, 2011, have you registered to attend? Registration is free and the meeting is open to stakeholders, but space is limited, so register soon to guarantee your place. The Annual Meeting is a unique opportunity for information exchange and

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Satellite-based Fires Monitoring Service

A new version of the web-based “Fires – Kosmosnimki” (fires.kosmosnimki.ru) service of fire monitoring from satellites is open in Russia. One of the new features is the addition of the analytic add-on over the basic algorithm of “hot spots” detection. This enables to combine separate sites of probable fire blazes into areal fires and to

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Leica Cyclone 7.2 for Point Cloud Processing

Leica Geosystems announces new Leica Cyclone v7.2 software that improves office processing and use of rich “as-built” point cloud data. Several innovations in Leica Cyclone 7.2 address key market needs and trends in the processing and use of rich, as-built point cloud data from laser scanning/High-Definition Surveying. Read More

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Dutch Kadaster Contributes Data to Esri’s World Topographic Map

The Dutch Kadaster, the organization in the Netherlands responsible for the registration of real estate and geographic information, contributed data from one of its major databases to Esri’s World Topographic Map. The World Topographic Map, along with other basemaps, is freely available in the online version of ArcGIS, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS for Desktop, and ArcGIS for