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Friday, November 25th, 2011

Inclusion of Forestry Matters in Policy and Decision Making Process

Shri Ranjan Chatterjee, Consultant, Planning Commission, said that forests are meant for every body and we need to keep balance between environment and forests. Shri Chatterjee said, “Forests are under pressure because of lack of understanding. Forests are not merely to preserve but work towards more greening with joint efforts.” Addressing a valedictory session of

Friday, November 25th, 2011

SpacEyes3D Builder 5.0, the Real Time Fly Through and 3D Model Making Software

The new release 5.0 of the incontrovertible SpacEyes3D Builder offers you the performance of more realistic 3D models, a deeper analysis of your data and an increased efficiency. – Represent all your GIS data more efficiency: With the new kernel of GIS data rendering, represent in a flash all your surface data, represent the vegetation and

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Marine Biodiversity Driven by Environmental Changes

Our most important source for knowledge about past life is the fossil record. But how exact is it in telling us about the history of life? According to a new study in  Science the evolution of marine life over the last 500 million years has been strongly influenced by sea level changes and ocean chemistry and despite its incompleteness, the fossil

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Full Vue 10 Product Line Released

Products for 3D Enthusiasts are handled by Cornucopia3D, the community division of e-on software. Full product descriptions, download and purchase information for Vue Pioneer, Vue 3D SuperHero, Vue Theme-Packs and Vue 10 Frontier are available directly at www.cornucopia3d.com.

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Unprecedented in 1,450 years

“The recent sea ice decline … appears to be unprecedented,” said Christian Zdanowicz, a glaciologist at Natural Resources Canada, who co-led the study and is a co-author of the paper published Wednesday online in Nature. “We kind of have to conclude that there’s a strong chance that there’s a human influence embedded in that signal.” Read

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

City of Whitehorse: iVAULT integrates GIS with Financial and Asset Data

The City of Whitehorse maintained separate databases for financial and asset information with some GIS data stored on a few computer desktops. Extracting mapping data was manually intensive and limited to a few users. Pacific Alliance developed an ESRI platform interface to access financial and asset data sets; it was designed with ArcGIS for Microsoft Silverlight. Integrated

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

GISCI Position on the GIS Profession in Relation to Other Geospatial Professions

The Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) has issued the GISCI position on the GIS profession in relation to other geospatial professions.  The position states in part: The GIS Certification Institute contends that state regulation of the many and varied tasks performed by GIS Professionals would be counterproductive. Instead of state regulation, we

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

CAD Viewer Business Under a New Flag

With the software distribution segment of Infotech Enterprises and the viewer segment of DataCAD, the two strongest former European distribution partners of two well-known viewer solutions merge to one powerful development partner. K2D will use the combined experience of the two viewer specialists to promote the development of the CAD Viewer Kubotek KeyView. Synergies, decades

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Wetlands International at Climate Summit Durban

Wetlands International will be present at the upcoming climate talks in Durban (28 November – 9 December). This global NGO will show the important role that wetlands can play to adapt to climate change, with specific attention for wetlands in the dry and vulnerable parts of Africa. Wetlands International also continues its call for incentives

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

European Lidar Event Opens in Less Than 7 Days

There is still time to be a part of the global gathering of LIDAR professionals when they meet in Salzburg, Austria in less than 7 days. The European LiDAR Mapping Forum is being held from 29 – 30th November 2011 and will combine a technical conference of over 40 papers presented by Internationally recognised speakers and an