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Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Banff 2011 Geotechnical Modeling Workshop

GEO-SLOPE International Ltd. invites you to join us in the Canadian Rocky Mountains this fall for our Banff 2011 Geotechnical Modeling workshop. Surrounded by stunning scenery and removed from the hustle and bustle of the city, Banff is a perfect setting to gather with GEO-SLOPE clients from around the world to learn and fine-tune your numerical

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

City of Calgary Receives ESRI Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

ESRI Canada today presented the City of Calgary with an Award of Excellence for enhancing its basemapping capabilities using ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology.  Through its Core Mapping Project, the City has migrated municipal land information maintenance from their previous computer-aided design (CAD) system to a GIS environment.  Centralizing this data in a GIS has

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey Keynotes at PgCon

Paul Ramsey, Geospatial Architect at OpenGeo and longtime leader in the PostGIS open source community, presented the keynote at PgCon, the international gathering of core PostgreSQL developers and community members in Ottawa, Canada on May 19. The keynote covered the PostGIS spatial database, how GIS is being used inside PostgreSQL, and the specific development efforts

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Sentinel-1 to Offer New Ways of Monitoring Crops

Sustainable food production remains a pressing challenge, so scientists have been assessing the potential of the future Sentinel-1 mission to deliver new methods of monitoring crops grown around the world from space. Sentinel-1, expected to be launched in 2013, is one of the five missions that ESA is developing for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

New Maps Locate Places for Wave Energy

Is there a good place to develop wave energy in Oregon’s 3-mile swath of the Pacific? State planners are developing a series of maps that they hope will reveal places in the territorial sea that aren’t vital to the fishing or shipping industries, or sensitive marine species, or surfers, or oceanographic research, or undersea transmission cables

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Depiction – GIS 101: Understanding Concepts and Terms

A new Whitepaper by Depiction discusses GIS 101. The paper outlines what a GIS is and includes terms and concepts that apply to GIS. Also included are information about digital mapping and projections. Read More

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Using Resources Efficiently: Green Week 2011

Experts from the European Environment Agency (EEA) will be at Green Week in Brussels to take part in the debate on resource efficiency and provide the latest data in the accompanying exhibition. The EEA is coordinating a debate on resource efficiency indicators, co-organised by the European Commission and Eurostat.

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Open Review of “Climate Change for Forest Policy Makers”

Countries are faced with the new challenges of adjusting forest policy and management practices to address Climate Change, while maintaining a balance with the many other objectives of forest management. FAO and the NFP-Facility are working to support countries in efforts to integrate climate change into their national forest programmes or forest policy framework. A main

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

HOK Appoints Beth Bernitt as Chief Marketing Officer

Beth Bernitt has rejoined HOK, a global architectural design firm, as chief marketing officer. In this role, Bernitt will provide global strategic leadership for HOK’s marketing, communications and business development efforts. Based in HOK’s Tampa office, she will work across HOK’s global network of 25 offices.

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Registration for INSPIRE ANNEX II and III Data Specifications

Registration for INSPIRE ANNEX II and III data specifications testing still open The INSPIRE Team has already received over 45 registrations from SDICs and LMOs to test the INSPIRE Annex II and III Specifications that will become available on the 20th June 2011. The testing activities will take place between 20 June and 21 October 2011. Details can be found