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Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

French GeoPortal API Contest

Free and no purchase necessary, contest Geoportal 2011 is open to all, whether or not participants have already developed an application. Amateurs or professionals, take the opportunity to develop your mapping applications made from the original online services IGN.

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Streetline Launches Smart Parking App Parker

Streetline, Inc.’s free smartphone app Parker is now live in Asheville, North Carolina – just in time for the holiday weekend. The new real-time smart parking app allows for hands-free guidance to parking spaces in the Grove Arcade area via the Parker app for iPhone and Android.

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Indian Minister Reviews Plan for Strengthening Forest Service

The Indian Forest Service (IFS) came into being in 1966, to manage, conserve and develop the forest and wildlife resources of the country. However, a lack of long-term planning on annual recruitment, skill building and training in the past has been a cause for concern. A five-member committee constituted by the Ministry in 2010, headed

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Lockheed Martin Team Completes GeoEye-2 Design Phase Early

The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed the Space System Critical Design Review (CDR) two weeks ahead of schedule. The review validated the detailed design of the spacecraft and command and control portion of the ground system to ensure it meets all program requirements for GeoEye’s

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Trimble Introduces New High-Accuracy GNSS Correction Service for Agriculture Market

Trimble introduced today its new high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) compatible correction service. The Trimble CenterPoint correction service can offer 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) repeatable accuracy and will be available initially through Trimble’s Agriculture Division. CenterPoint RTX is a GPS and GLONASS enabled correction service that covers approximately a 1.8 billion acre swath of

Friday, July 1st, 2011

New 1:250 000 Scale Geological Maps Available – Australian Geoscience Portal

The 1:250 000 scanned geological maps available at the Geoscience Portal have been updated with 70 new scanned maps. They include maps of areas which previously had no coverage as well as some that replace out-of-date editions and some metallogenic maps which contain considerably more recently obtained geological data than previous editions. Areas for which paper maps

Friday, July 1st, 2011

ITT Visual Information Solutions Press Conference and Breakfast

Please join us in San Diego for the ITT Visual Information Solutions Press Conference and Breakfast at the Esri International User Conference 2011. Richard Cooke, President of ITT Visual Information Solutions, and Lawrie Jordan, Director of Imagery Enterprise Solutions for Esri will each make a brief statement and take questions during the event.

Friday, July 1st, 2011

emapsite and Technics Group Open New Door to Essential Survey Mapping

Clients of a leading survey consultancy have been given a direct route into the UK’s widest portfolio of downloadable map data for feasibility and site work. Mapshop, an innovative online shop hosted by the geoportal emapsite, is now also available through the website of the geospatial survey firm Technics Group.

Friday, July 1st, 2011

SCANEX ADPS: New Software System of Automatic RS Data Processing Developed

ScanEx Research & Development Center specialists completed the development of the first version of new software system of automatic Earth remote sensing data processing for MS Windows OS. The system was named SCANEX Automatic Data Processing System (SCANEX ADPS). It enables to process satellite data from input “raw” data stream up to standard Level 1 and 2

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Western Governors, NOAA Agree to Improve Climate Services for the West

The Western Governors’ Association (WGA) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) today announced a joint agreement for improving the development and delivery of climate science and services to Western states. In the midst of a record-breaking season for extreme drought, flood, wildfire and severe storms, this timely agreement will increase collaboration and boost existing