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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Coalition of Geospatial Organizations Selects Leader for 2011

The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) announced today that they have selected Dr. Carolyn J. Merry as the 2012 Coalition Chair. Dr. Merry is the Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science Department at The Ohio State University (OSU) and has been an active ASPRS member since 1975. She will serve as

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Interior Releases Report Highlighting Impacts of Climate Change to Western Water Resources

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released a report that assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control, and fish and wildlife in the western United States. The report to Congress, prepared by Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, represents the first consistent and coordinated assessment of risks to

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Esri Agreement with NAVTEQ Broadens Access to Map Data

Esri has signed an agreement with NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data to provide worldwide map data on ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Data Appliance. This is useful for organizations that depend on up-to-date, high-quality basemap data for routing and other location-finding tasks. ArcGIS Online provides a common platform to find, share,

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

SimActive’s Photogrammetry Software Used by the Geomatics Centre of Quebec

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that the Geomatics Centre of Quebec (CGQ) has completed a major mapping project using Correlator3D™.  The project was done in collaboration with the Nippour Group, whose responsibilities included extensive quality assurance. The project involved processing more than 2,200 scanned films at 21cm ground

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

COM.Geo 2011 Program and Schedule Now Available

The COM.Geo Conference, which will be held May 23-25, Washington, DC., announces that the program and schedule are now available. The conference includes 16 programs and events, such as keynotes (NASA, U.S. FCC, Microsoft, OGC, etc.), OGC workshop, Microsoft workshop, full papers, short papers, tech talks, demo talks, posters, panels, courses, demo show, reception, cruise, banquet,

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard Endorsed by FGDC

On February 9, 2011, the Steering Committee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) endorsed the United States Thoroughfare, Landmark and Postal Address Data Standard. The Standard is the culmination of efforts of the Address Standard Working Group, which was created in 2005 when the FGDC accepted a proposal submitted by the Urban and Regional

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

SuperGeo Announces a New Reseller in Romania

SuperGeo Technologies officially announced its latest partner in Europe, where SC Molinaro Topo Expert S.r.l. is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software in Romania. SC Molinaro Topo Expert S.r.l. is located in Brasov, a city of Romania. With abundant and professional experiences in land survey, as well as the state-of-the-art related equipments, this firm provides

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

SuperGeo Releases Mobile Cadastral GIS 3.0

SuperGeo Technologies announces that Mobile Cadastral GIS 3.0 is officially released to assist efficient cadastral navigation measuring and field survey.  Mobile Cadastral GIS is designed for cadastral navigation measuring and field survey on the basis of SuperGIS Mobile Engine. Integrated with GIS and GPS technology resources, Mobile Cadastral GIS enables field surveyors to recognize their

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Infotech to Focus on Engineering Services

The company is focusing on new business segments within engineering such as nuclear engineering. Reddy added that the firm continues to do some maintenance work or writing code, which comes as a part of some manufacturing contract, but it is not doing any business in the traditional hot spots of the IT sector such as banking

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Forest Governance Research Agenda – invitation for inputs

The aim is to give the research agenda a strong basis through wide stakeholder consultation. By doing so we hope that the research community, the governance practitioners and the research donors will take ownership of the agenda. Once ready, the agenda will assist donors of scientific research (e.g. European and national research funding and development