Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, will hold the first annual OpenGeo Global Partner Meeting just prior to the 2011 FOSS4G Conference in Denver, Colorado on September 11th. With a rapidly growing network of international partners, the OpenGeo Global Partner Meeting will focus on developing plans for continuing to support the increasing demand for open
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Since the 1990s, Indonesia has been criticized internationally for the large amount of smoke it generates in the forests of Sumatra and Kalimantan. The resulting haze sometimes spreads to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand and is estimated to cause $9 billion in losses to tourism, transportation and agriculture across the region each year. An agreement among
