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Friday, April 29th, 2011

URISA’s GIS in Public Health Conference Details Announced

URISA is pleased to announce the details of its 2011 GIS in Public Health Conference, taking place in Atlanta, June 27-30, 2011. The deadline to take advantage of discounted registration and hotel fees is June 1. Learn More “What makes this conference such a valuable experience is the mix of academics and practitioners, experienced GIS

Friday, April 29th, 2011

LizardTech Exhibits at the ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference

LizardTech®, a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, will be exhibiting in booth #307 at the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2011 Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wis. next week, held at the Frontier Airlines Center. The company will showcase GeoExpress 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress

Friday, April 29th, 2011

St. Michael’s Hospital Recognized as a 2011 Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovative GIS Application

ESRI Canada congratulates St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto for being selected as a 2011 Laureate winner for innovation by the International Data Group’s (IDG) Computerworld Honors Program.  The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change.  ESRI Canada nominated St. Michael’s Hospital for BIO.DIASPORA, a scientific platform

Friday, April 29th, 2011

EPA Launches New Strategy to Promote Use of Green Infrastructure

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new strategy to promote the use of green infrastructure by cities and towns to reduce stormwater runoff that pollutes our nation’s streams, creeks, rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Green infrastructure decreases pollution to local waterways by treating rain where it falls and keeping polluted stormwater from

Friday, April 29th, 2011

UN-Spider – Crowdsource Mapping Expert Meeting and Technical Advisory Missions

The “United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response – UN-SPIDER” was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 with the following mission statement: “Ensure that all countries and international and regional organizations have access to and develop the capacity to use all types of space-based information to support

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg – Agenda Online

GI_Forum 2011 provides participants with a comprehensive programme of keynotes, presentations, discussion sessions, workshops and a brokerage event. Attendees are still invited to submit a poster contribution. We are proud to present our diverse and wide ranging agenda for GI_Forum: A vibrant interdisciplinary GIS community from academia, industry and government is awaiting you to analyze progress

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Forest-Centered Adaptation Online Courses Now in Spanish

Over the past year a number of forestry and climate change specialists have asked if we would offer our adaptation courses in Spanish. We are now proud to announce our four course adaptation module in Spanish beginning May 17, 2011. Please read the course description below—or follow these links: Español OL 340 Adaptación al Cambio

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Options for Voluntary REDD+ Certification – 10 standards compared

Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (CCBA REDD+ S&E), CarbonFix Standard (CFS), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Global Conservation Standard (GCS), ISO 14064:2006, Plan Vivo

Friday, April 29th, 2011

OGC Technical Mtgs and Int’l Augmented Reality Standards Mtg – Taiwan

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that it will hold the next OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings from 12-17 June 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan. The week’s events will run concurrently with the Third International AR (Augmented Reality) Standards Meeting, which the OGC is hosting with the support of the Technical Committee and Planning

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Hexagon Companies Appearing Together at ASPRS 2011 and Joint User Group Meeting

ERDAS announces its participation in the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) annual conference May 1-5 at the Frontier Airlines Center of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. In keeping with this year’s conference theme, “Ride on the Geospatial Revolution,” the companies of Hexagon – ERDAS, Intergraph, Leica Geosystems and Z/I Imaging – will reveal their