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Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Essential Reference Book Guides Programming Workflows in ArcGIS

Getting to Know ArcGIS ModelBuilder details the steps required to develop and run reusable geoprocessing workflows and models in ModelBuilder, a visual programming technology available in ArcGIS software. Published by Esri Press, this well-illustrated workbook provides ample hands-on exercises to give classroom students and self-learners the opportunity to master the techniques required to successfully use

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Payments for Ecosystem Services in Vietnam’s Mangrove Forests

Vietnam’s mangrove ecosystems are tremendously valuable, providing ecosystem services like carbon sequestration, protection from storms, floods, and erosion, provision of timber and non-timber forest products, processing of waste and nutrient pollution, aquaculture and agriculture support, and habitat for aquatic and terrestrial species.

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Sentinel-1 – New Ways of Monitoring Crops from Space

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

Introducing Matrox Avio Series

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

Bentley Leads the Way to Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Participation

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

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