Friday, September 30th, 2011
The workshop will be held on 5th October 2011 in picturesque premises of the Kozel Castle which is very close to the Pilsen city, Czech Republic and is organized as a pre-conference workshop of the Geomatics in projects 2011 conference at 6th October 2011. The joint workshop will be held in English. You can register by sending an email on: kjanecka (at) kma.zcu.cz
Friday, September 30th, 2011
NDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, has completed a rigorous two year analysis into GeoVisionary and has given the system the official go-ahead. GeoVisionary will act as an umbrella 3D visualisation system for data from various sources; principally Andra’s Geo database, which holds samples and geoscientific data and SAGD, a database which holds
Friday, September 30th, 2011
2011 Global Partner Conference of GeoEye company – the Operator of highly detailed RS satellites – was held in San-Francisco (California, USA). It was attended by representatives of RapidEye (Germany), Japan Space Imaging (Japan), ESRI (USA), ERDAS (USA), ScanEx RDC (Russia), Gesecology (Chile), etc. At the end of the conference GeoEye representatives handed in memorial
Friday, September 30th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and EuroGeographics recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote interoperability through open standards to benefit the European geospatial community?
Friday, September 30th, 2011
PEFC International is pleased to invite all interested parties to provide feedback on an appendix to its global sustainable forest management standard by 27 November 2011. This appendix defines requirements and interpretations for the sustainable management of tropical natural forest.
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The spotlight shone on ESRI Canada at the Ontario Business Achievement Awards (OBAA) as the company received the Innovation Award for 2011. Sponsored by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the OBAA recognizes outstanding businesses in the province that have demonstrated innovation and entrepreneurship. Out of hundreds of nominations, ESRI Canada was selected for advancing the
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Aerial mapping company Bluesky is urging property owners to get independent assessments of solar potential following press reports of rogue traders and mis-selling. The consumer watchdog Which? invited certified companies to quote for a domestic solar panel installation and found three quarters overestimated how much energy the panels would produce while most underestimated the time
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Trimble announced the release of eCognition 8.7, a new version of its advanced software suite designed to extract information from a range of geospatial data including images, point clouds and Geographic Information System (GIS) vectors. The software suite enables aerial imaging companies, geospatial data providers, scientists and end users to integrate and analyze earth observation
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is sponsoring the 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Cape Town next week – the company’s experts are eager to share their vision for cost effective innovation during the five-day congress.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and EuroGeographics recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote interoperability through open standards to benefit the European geospatial community. The two organizations both seek to promote compatible, standards-based Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) from the local to global level, and the OGC is positioned to help EuroGeographics support a
