Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced its fall webinar schedule designed to cover the company’s entire line of geospatial products. Each webinar is free and is aimed at geospatial professionals and decision makers exploring the powerful features in LizardTech’s line of geospatial image products – GeoExpress® software for
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
URISA is pleased to announce the results of its 2011 Board of Directors Election. J. Allison (Al) Butler will become President-Elect of the association and Tripp Corbin, Cindy Post and Teresa Townsend will begin their terms as members of the Board of Directors at the close of GIS-Pro 2011: URISA’s 49th Annual Conference in Indianapolis,
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Spanning over 68,000 square kilometers, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is Canada’s largest municipality by area. To keep track of its numerous dispersed assets and understand how they relate to one another, ESRI Canada today announced that the municipality will deploy a Common Operational Picture (COP) application built on ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology.
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Entire sets of assumptions, beliefs, and practices will need to be overturned if the United States is to build a sustainable economy in the decades ahead, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, Creating Sustainable Prosperity in the United States: The Need for Innovation and Leadership. The report assesses the country’s environmental record
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Compared to conventional waveform-digitizing altimeters or laser time-of-flight lidar techniques, photon-counting lidar is a more efficient technique as it requires only one detected photon to make a range measurement rather than hundreds or thousands. Sigma Space Corp. (Lanham, MD) has taken advantage of this ranging sensitivity to develop its single-photon counting lidar system, which can
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
We are happy to announce the availability of the 2012 version of the award-winning Vectorworks line of design software, including: Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals, and Renderworks.
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that the call for nominations for its 2012 Student Design Competition is now open. University, college, high school, and technical school students are invited to submit projects designed using Bentley software, along with a short essay describing their
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Solar photovoltaic panels are becoming ubiquitous across the UK. Cast your eyes skywards and you’ll see the predominantly deep, blue-and-silver-veined panels winking back at you (assuming the sun’s shining) from an ever-increasing number of residential and commercial buildings’ rooftops. The government’s feed-in-tariff has largely driven the uptake. Such has been the level of interest in the tariffs that
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
The new addressing products from GeoPlace LLP, a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Group, will be showcased for the first time at the annual conference. Delegates will be able to view demonstrations of the new products and find out about the many new features and benefits.
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Today at the IAA (Internationale Automobil Ausstellung), Nokia announced Nokia Car Mode, a standalone application optimized for the in-car use of Nokia smartphones. Nokia Car Mode features an optimized user interface simplifying the access and use of Nokia Drive (voice-guided car navigation with Nokia Maps), traffic updates, music and voice calls while driving. Nokia Car
