Friday, June 17th, 2011
From military beginnings, mapping the south east coast of Britain for fear of invasion by Napoleon, through to the modern digital age, Ordnance Survey has played a constant and vital role for charting the changing face of the nation for over two centuries.
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Whether at sea, on rail, stacked or stored, shipping containers can now be tracked worldwide via satellite with Cont-Trak, developed through ESA’s telecommunications programme. Field trials have been carried out at a container depot in Halifax, Canada to test different stacking situations, and during shipping from Europe to North America. Containers were fitted with Cont-Trak terminals,
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Today, the European Commission has signed an agreement confirming the transfer of funds to ESA for the initial operations of the space component for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. The agreement, which secures €104 million, was signed at ESA Headquarters in Paris by Heinz Zourek, Director General of the European Commission’s DG Enterprise
Friday, June 17th, 2011
There are still three months to go for the opening of the 53rd Photogrammetric Week to be held at the University of Stuttgart, Sept. 5 to 9, 2011. As the years before we have compiled for you an attractive program of lectures in the mornings (Conference Speaker, Keynote Speakers, Invited Speakers only) and hopefully excellent
Friday, June 17th, 2011
This five day workshop will explore statistical analysis of assemblage and multi-variable environmental data that arise in a diverse spectrum of environmental and biological science research, such as environmental impact assessments, basic studies of community ecology, monitoring of biodiversity and analysis of water quality indices.
Friday, June 17th, 2011
We’ve discovered a fairly significant bug in yesterday’s Depiction update that corrupts saved Depiction files, and can also cause problems loading new files. We hope to have a fixed version of Depiction 1.3.1 available tomorrow morning, and we will email you when it is available. In the meantime, if you need to use Depiction before
Friday, June 17th, 2011
This Envisat image features Alaska’s Yukon Delta, where the Yukon River, North America’s fifth-longest river system, fans out into a labyrinth of distributaries before emptying into the Bering Sea. Originating on the northern border of British Columbia in Canada, the Yukon flows some 3190 km across central Alaska in the US before emptying into Norton Sound
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
ESRI Canada today announced the appointment of Adam Fox as the company’s new Regional Director for Ontario. Mr. Fox will lead the region’s sales organization in providing geographic information system (GIS) solutions to the Ontario market. He previously held a senior account management role within the company, where he successfully managed large enterprise municipal clients in
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Ocean scientist, geographer, and geographic information system (GIS) author Dawn J. Wright will join Esri as its chief scientist on October 3, 2011. She will help formulate and advance the intellectual agenda for the environmental, conservation, climate, and ocean sciences aspect of Esri’s work while also representing Esri to the national/international scientific community. A notable authority
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
I am pleased to announce that EyeFind, a new tool that allows you to browse our entire archive, is now online. EyeFind provides you online viewing access to the complete RapidEye Archive of imagery collected since the start of RapidEye’s commercial operations in February 2009.
