Friday, April 29th, 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Friday, April 29th, 2011
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
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
