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Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Blue Marble to Feature Enhanced ArcMap Extension for COGO Selection

Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the Esri Survey Summit in San Diego, CA July 8-10, 2011. Come visit Booth S-400 to see firsthand the newest release of the Blue Marble Desktop version 2.3. The latest version of the Blue Marble Desktop includes an enhanced Esri Extension which will allow users to define coordinate

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Optech Announces New Real-Time Point Cloud Interface for Lynx Mobile Mapper

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the Real-Time Point Cloud (RTPC) interface, a new feature delivered with the Lynx Mobile Mapper M1.

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

3-GIS Partners with GTI to Develop Android and iPad Application for the Gas Industry

3-GIS, a GIS software development company and Gas Technology Institute (GTI), a research, development and training organization for the natural gas industry and energy markets, have partnered to develop an Android and iPad application for the gas pipeline and distribution industries.

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

ArcGIS Data Appliance 4.0 Includes Significant Data Updates

Esri has released the new version of ArcGIS Data Appliance, an enterprise scalable solution that plugs right into an organization’s internal network and serves terabytes of worldwide map data including imagery, street, and topography. ArcGIS Data Appliance 4.0 includes many new imagery and basemap datasets, as well as data updates for tasks.

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Rutland County Council Set to Make Savings with New Gazetteer Management System

Rutland County Council is set to dramatically increase efficiency with a new gazetteer management system from Aligned Assets. Symphony iManage, the gazetteer management system in use by over 100 sites across the public sector, will be used by Rutland County Council for the management of their Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG), Local Street Gazetteer (LSG)

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

New UK Land Cover Map Launched This Week

The UK’s new Land Cover Map is published today (Wednesday 6 July), providing a continuous coverage of habitat distributions across the countryside at a 25m resolution. The map was developed using a combination of satellite images and national scale digital mapping data. The new map is the third in a series produced by the Centre for

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

OpenGeo Leads FOSS4G 2011 Presentations

OpenGeo presenters will be easy to find this year at the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Denver, Colorado. In addition to six half-day hands-on workshops, a number of talks from OpenGeo presenters have been accepted in the program:

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

CloverPoint Staff Wins 2011 GeoAlberta Award

CloverPoint is pleased to announce one of our Spatial Systems Analysts, Laura Colquhoun, has won the 2011 GeoAlberta 2D and 3D Online Cartography Map Gallery Award. This award recognizes technical achievement in 2D and 3D digital presentations. The award took place in Edmonton at the annual GeoAlberta GIS conference.

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Students Use GIS, GPS and Satellite Remote Sensing to Study Environmental Challenges

Carbon footprint” has worked its way into the lexicon of a warming world, but carbon isn’t the only gas that can tell us about the health of our changing planet. Nitrogen is another worth tracking, especially when it comes to monitoring pollutants that can adversely affect an ecosystem’s soil, water quality, plant growth and biodiversity.

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Forest Carbon Overview

The collection of stalled and wrecked policies accumulating on the shoulder of the road to meaningful climate action are not distracting project developers and market players who appear to be staying confident with eyes fixed directly ahead. In California, another firestorm of commentary and debate broke with news that the state will delay enforcement of its