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Friday, April 29th, 2011

Dubai’s GIS Enhances Operations to Support Continued Growth

Dubai Municipality signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri’s United Arab Emirates distributor GISTEC, making ArcGIS software available throughout the organization to help meet the planning and operational demands of Dubai’s rapid growth. With broader access to the latest ArcGIS software, the municipality intends to leverage GIS technology and share geospatial data between departments. Learn

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

2nd Largest Solar Power Plant in Italy

Kyocera Corporation (President: Tetsuo Kuba) announced that it has supplied approximately 6-megawatts (MW) of the company’s multicrystalline silicon solar modules for a large-scale solar power plant near Turin, Italy. The large-scale solar plant in Cigliano (Piedmont region), with an output of approximately 6MW, is the largest installation in Italy to have been equipped with Kyocera solar

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Rewarding the Best Innovative Ideas for EGNOS

Satellite navigation is already changing our lives. The search is on for new ideas that could use the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to improve life further. The European GNSS Agency (GSA) is offering a prize for the best proposal that uses EGNOS – the European satellite-based augmentation system for GPS. Read More

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Turn a Spreadsheet into Polygons

TractBuilder has made creating data easy with its Tools for ArcGIS, and now it is even easier with the Auto-Quartering Tool. For the first time, a simple spreadsheet containing Township-Range-Section information and a legal description can be used to create polygons. “We like making people’s lives easier,” Kyle Souza, Sales Manager for TractBuilder, “that’s why our

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Sûreté du Québec’s Search and Rescue Application Wins ESRI Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

ESRI Canada today presented the Sûreté du Québec with an Award of Excellence for enhancing search and rescue operations using ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology.  The organization’s Emergency Management team provides emergency services for the entire Québéc region. They direct and coordinate search and rescue operations of the Safety units and municipal police forces in

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Poland Implements Esri-Based INSPIRE Solution

The Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography in Poland (GUGiK) is implementing an Esri-based solution to support compliance with the European Union’s Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) Directive. The directive sets out a framework and timetable for implementing a pan-European spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to address multinational and multi-agency issues. GUGiK is the

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

OGC Announces XML Encoding Standard for Observations and Measurements

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to approve the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) – XML Encoding Standard as an official OGC standard. This standard specifies an XML implementation for the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements (O&M) conceptual model (OGC Observations and Measurements v2.0, which is also published as ISO/DIS 19156), including

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

On Thin Ice: Vulnerable Arctic Treasures Identified

A report released today identifies 13 of the richest and most vulnerable places in the Arctic Ocean that should be considered for protection as summer sea ice melts and industrial activity expands into newly accessible areas. The Bering Strait, Chukchi Beaufort Coast, Barents Sea Coast and Great Siberian Polynya are among the hotspots, according to

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Obama Administration Affirms Comprehensive Commitment to Clean Water

Recognizing the importance of clean water and healthy watersheds to our economy, environment and communities, the Obama administration released a national clean water framework today that showcases its comprehensive commitment to protecting the health of America’s waters. The framework emphasizes the importance of partnerships and coordination with states, local communities, stakeholders and the public to

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

OHL Industrial Selects Intergraph Solutions to Develop Oil and Gas and Power Generation Plants

OHL Industrial, the engineering division of one of the largest Spanish construction companies, has chosen SmartPlant® Enterprise solutions, including SmartPlant 3D, for the development of oil and gas and power generation plants. The product suite integrating SmartPlant 3D, SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Review and SmartPlant Materials will enable OHL Industrial to optimize the engineering