Monday, July 11th, 2011
NAVTEQ has established a pan-European reseller agreement with Esri Schweiz AG. As an authorised NAVTEQ reseller, the GIS specialist will be able to provide customers with a complete set of NAVTEQ geodata which, depending on individual requirements, can be supplied in formats optimised for use within Esri software. The navigable map data and associated content –
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 438, has announced a gas discovery about 25 kilometres north of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The well proved gas in three separate zones: a 95-metre column in the Kolmule formation, in the Knurr formation, and gas in the Stø formation. Preliminary estimates place the size of the
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Forest projects around the world are working to confront the practical challenges of reducing emissions and providing local benefits. To facilitate the development of forest carbon projects, the Katoomba Incubator at Forest Trends has compiled strategic guidance to emerging best practices. Drawing on practical experiences, this series of documents includes a Step-by-Step Overview and detailed
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Geo-data service provider Europa Technologies is launching the latest update to its market leading family of global data products. The 2011.2 release reflects the very latest changes to political borders, making the company the first data provider to publish a digital map showing the newly formed nation of South Sudan. The update also covers first level administrative boundaries
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
A new beta version of Nokia Maps, 3.08, has been released through Nokia Beta Labs, which brings a number of changes to the Drive (car navigation) functionality of the application. The most important of these is the ability to use live traffic information to automatically route you around traffic jams and other delays. There’s also
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Some of the last images from ESA’s ERS-2 satellite have revealed rapidly changing glacial features in Greenland. In its final days, the veteran satellite gave us frequent views of the Kangerdlugssuaq glacier and its advancing ice stream. Before it retired on 6 July, ESA’s ERS-2 Earth observation satellite entered an orbit to capture radar images of
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
The State of British Columbia’s Forests is a provincial, sustainable forestry report that provides information about the environmental, economic and social aspects of B.C.’s forests. The report is produced by the Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands, which has a long history of reporting to the public on the condition and management of its forest
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
The latest release of ArcGIS Online supports the addition of data from a .csv or .txt file directly to the map viewer. Users can also add GPS Exchange Form (.gpx) files; Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Web Map Service (WMS) layers; and KML layers.
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
An arm’s-length, sustainably funded monitoring commission, a publicly-accessible system for monitoring data and reporting, and increased Aboriginal input into the monitoring system design are among the 20 recommendations of a 12-member panel struck to help advance environmental monitoring in Alberta.
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The first Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft beamed down its first infrared image on June 21 to the SBIRS ground station. Following its May 7 launch, the satellite is performing as expected, and is now undergoing early orbit testing. The U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO-1 spacecraft is the most technologically
