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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Spatial Data Infrastructure for Agriculture and Environment Workshop

The NaturNet Plus, SDI-EDU, EnviroGrids BlackSee, Briseide, Plan4all and Habitats teams would like to invite you for the “Spatial Data Infrastructure for Agriculture and Environment” workshop, which will be part of EFITA/WCCA 2011. EFITA/WCCA 2011 conference is focused on Digital Agenda for 2020, ICT-technologies and knowledge management for integrated and sustainable farm management in the

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

GeoEye and Russian Partner ScanEx Sign Imagery Agreement

GeoEye, Inc. announced that it has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery for international customers in Russia and its neighboring countries. 

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Sparx Systems and Geoplex Announce Partnership Focused on Modeling Tool

Sparx Systems today announced a partnership with Geoplex. The partnership follows the ongoing success of Sparx Systems’ flagship modeling platform, Enterprise Architect, within the geospatial sector. Widely used within the geospatial community to manage information architectures, Enterprise Architect has been adopted within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to maintain all ISO19100 family models for

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Now, Private Users Closer to Using ISRO Data

The Centre and Isro on Tuesday announced an upgraded remote sensing data sharing policy, making the process of accessing images easier. The previous policy allowed Isro to release data of up to 5.8 metre resolution, instead of 1 metre now.  An Isro official told TOI, “Considering the availability of data on commercial websites, the government has decided to provide

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Launch of the 2011 Millenium Development Report: July 7, 2011

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Governments and Shell Move Toward Carbon Storage in Canada

The Government of Alberta has taken another step toward realizing its climate change goals by signing a final agreement with Shell Canada Energy for the Shell Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. The project will capture and store more than one million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from the Scotford Upgrader and its

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

SuperGeo Officially Release SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition Worldwide

SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to officially release SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition, its latest server-based software, to global market. Designed for creating, managing and distributing diverse GIS resources over the Internet to support desktop, mobile and web applications, SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition assists enterprises in developing, managing, integrating, and publishing multiple GIS services in

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Extensive Slick is Detected in the Black Sea

While performing satellite imagery of the Black Sea water areas on June 24 the specialists of ScanEx Center detected an extensive slick on the sea surface of ship origin. As of the moment of detecting the slick, in an intricate elongated form, outstretched 119 km within the Russian sector of the Black Sea 155 km

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

NAVTEQ Extends Its Enterprise Offering in Europe

NAVTEQ is now offering Postal Code Boundaries in Europe. The polygons in this new product are geo-referenced to the industry leading NAVTEQ map, which allows highly effective territorial comparison and analysis in a broad range of enterprise and GIS applications.  Read More

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

FME Data Challenge to Kick-off at the Esri User Conference

Safe Software announced today that they will kick off the FME Data Access Challenge at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego, CA from July 11 – 15, 2011. Participants in this initiative will find out how they can solve their toughest data transformation headaches with FME, the leading technology for spatial data transformation.