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
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
ERDAS will co-host a series of 11 World Tour events with distributor Planetek Italia in March and April. The Italian branch of the tour will kick off on March 29 in Rome at the Star Hotel Metropole, and will include stops in Palermo, Milan, Venice, Cagliari and Bari. The tour will conclude on April 19
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The results of the 2011 election have been tallied by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Tellers Committee and they reported that Stephen D. DeGloria, a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, won the election to become ASPRS Vice President for 2011. With the installation of officers at the ASPRS
