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Monday, June 6th, 2011

More Efforts Required to Reduce Ozone Pollution in Europe

Ground-level ozone is one of the most harmful air pollutants in Europe today. A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that despite efforts to reduce ozone pollution, in 2010 levels continued to exceed the long-term objective established in EU legislation to protect human health. EU Member States will also face difficulties in

Monday, June 6th, 2011

LizardTech Exhibits at the Di2E Conference

LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in booth #724 at the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) conference in Dallas, Texas this week. The company will showcase its entire line of geospatial products, including the recently launched GeoExpress® 8, which enables

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Surrey Police Select Symphony Bluelight From Aligned Assets

Surrey Police have selected gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets to supply them with software from their Symphony Bluelight suite of emergency services products. Similar to Aligned Assets’ SinglePoint solution that is well-established at British Transport Police, Surrey Police will be using the advanced web services in SinglePoint to act as a bridge between their gazetteer data and

Monday, June 6th, 2011

RegioStars 2012 Awards: Applications are Now Open

Are you implementing an innovative project and do you want to showcase it as an example of its kind in Europe? Are you in charge of a project geared to innovation, sustainable development, demographic change or urban development? Have you created a website that tells the general public all about projects supported by the European

Monday, June 6th, 2011

EU Strategy for the Danube Region a United Response

The Danube, Europe’s second longest river at around 2 850 km, links the Black Forest to the Black Sea and runs through ten countries, with four more in its basin. Hydro-electric power stations, a Pan-European transport corridor and home to some of Europe’s rarest species – the pressures placed on the river are often conflicting

Monday, June 6th, 2011

ArcSoft Partners With Spatial View to Provide an Auto-Stereoscopic 3D Playback Solution

ArcSoft, Inc. announced that its best-selling multimedia player, ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 5, is now integrated with Spatial View’s innovative auto-stereo 3D solution, the 3DeeScreen, allowing users to view glasses-free 3D on standard laptops. 

Monday, June 6th, 2011

NASA Recognizes ITT Efforts on Advanced Weather Instrument Program

ITT Corporation has been recognized by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with an Outstanding Team of the Year award for its superior efforts and commitment to excellence in building one of the world’s most advanced weather instruments—the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). This satellite weather instrument is part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Esri File Geodatabase API Is Now Available

This API allows developers to work with file geodatabases outside ArcObjects (the library of software components that make up the foundation of ArcGIS). With this API, developers can now create independent applications to view or modify data stored in a file geodatabase. Geodatabases comprise the native structure for ArcGIS to store, manage, and use geospatial

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

PCI Geomatics – Esri Offer More on Earth Observation Imagery

PCI Geomatics has been working closely with Esri to make imagery more accessible to a broader user community. PCI’s GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) technology is currently being used to support the processing of GeoEye data into ortho-corrected and color balanced image products that will be made available for free through ArcGIS Online. PCI’s high performance, automated

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

New NASA Salt Mapper to Spice Up Climate Forecasts

The oracles of modern climate science are the computer models used to forecast climate change. These models, which rely on a myriad of data from many sources, are effective in predicting many climate variables, such as global temperatures. Yet data for some pieces of the climate puzzle have been scarce, including the concentration of dissolved