Thursday, March 24th, 2011
MundoGEO#Connect will have some activities broadcast through webinars and also via social networks, allowing those who cannot be at the event in June in São Paulo, to follow and interact with the event. Besides the 3,000 professionals who the event attracts, there is an estimate that more than 5,000 will be able to follow it
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce updated support for Esri ArcGIS 10 geodatabases and ArcMap document (MXD) files in MAPublisher 8.4.1 for Adobe Illustrator. The latest version of this mapmaking software used to
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released updated data and a mapping tool designed to help the public compare water quality trends over the last two years. The web-based, interactive map includes “state dashboards” that provide detailed information for each state, including information on facilities that are violating the Clean Water Act and the
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies officially announced its exclusive partner in Italy, where Helix S.r.l. is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software. Helix S.r.l. is located in Macerata at the northeast of Italy. With its founders merging their expertise in Geographic Information System (GIS), territory management and geology, Helix S.r.l. has been offering services including geographic information and workflow
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
On April 7, 2011, Bentley Systems will hold a conference call and webcast to announce important and innovative enhancements to Bentley Map V8i, the only desktop GIS for infrastructure that is intrinsically 3D. Used by designers, engineers, and other professionals that map, plan, design, build, and operate the world’s infrastructure, Bentley Map is a fully
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
An ESA project has recently demonstrated that new ways of processing satellite data can show how different properties of snow can be observed from space. This new method is expected to lead to a much deeper understanding of the role snow plays in the Earth system. Snow is a fundamental component of Earth’s energy and water
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
DAP Technologies today introduced its rugged M9000 tablet with breakthrough communications options including Wireless USB and integrated ZigBee® wireless technology, which are among the first applications of these technologies on tablet computers. It is also the first computer with the new Intel® E660T industrial processor and includes Qualcomm’s latest Gobi TM 3000 module.
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The digital mapping project is the result of a scientific collaboration between the Geophysics Service of the Department of Soil Protection in Ispra, Cartography and Remote Sensing Group, Department of Geophysics of the Lithosphere of OGS and Exploration & Production Division of Eni. The project stems from the need to provide the scientific world and, more
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The German Remote Sensing Data Center (Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum; DFD) and the German Space Operations Center (GSOC), both of which are part of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), are continuing to provide as much data as possible from the two German radar satellites, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X, for the assessment of
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Open-cast mining in the lignite districts of central and eastern Germany has affected huge areas of land, leaving behind entirely new landscapes characterised by their unique yet typical forms, in some cases bizarre and striking surfaces, and the absence of human activity. What makes the eastern German mining districts particularly interesting is that at the beginning
