Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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 and
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Matrox Graphics Inc. today unveils Matrox Avio Series, a new line of fiber optic KVM extenders for graphics intensive design and visualization applications within the process control, automotive, oil & gas, and government and military markets.
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Be Together: The Bentley User Conference – May 25, 2011 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced at this annual gathering of infrastructure professionals innovative additions and enhancements to its growing line of geotechnical and geoenvironmental products for sustaining infrastructure.
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.