Monday, March 14th, 2011
“There is a critical need to refocus the mission and priorities of the USGS, and to align its budget with this new direction,” John Palatiello, Executive Director of MAPPS, told a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives March 9. Palatiello’s testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the House Committee on
Monday, March 14th, 2011
ERDAS announces the release of a new version of the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK, which allows software developers to enable rapid and efficient file handling in the applications they create by including robust support for selected wavelet compression formats and protocols. The ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK provides support for the visually-lossless ECW imagery format and the ECWP
Monday, March 14th, 2011
LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in Booth #19 at the 2011 GIS Workshops and Exhibitions for Esri Users this week. GISWORX ’11 is taking place at the Convention Center of Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai, UAE. Learn More
Monday, March 14th, 2011
MundoGEO Group is promoting MundoGEO#Connect event in São Paulo in June. The expectation is to receive more than 3,000 professionals in MundoGEO#Connect, among specialists, decision makers, data producers, application developers, content providers and users of geoinformation in general. The event is internationaly supported by GIM, Directionsmag, Vector One, ISPRS and GITA. The event fair has
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Stakeholder Forum in collaboration with BioRegional and the Earth Charter Initiative have just produced a paper which consolidates a range of principles for the green economy, building on existing agreements and also emerging recommendations. The paper hopes to contribute to the emerging debate on defining principles for the green economy to ensure that it serves
Monday, March 14th, 2011
The innovation prize is sponsored by 52°North GmbH, con terra GmbH, ESRI Deutschland GmbH, the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente and the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Muenster. The deadline for submitting digital applications is May 1, 2011. The winner(s) will be notified by May
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
It appears the provincial government will get the final say after all on a controversial farmland rezoning proposal in the Annapolis Valley. The government announced Friday that the proposal will undergo a ministerial review. John MacDonell, the minister for Service Nova Scotia and municipal relations who is also the agriculture minister, has 60 days to make a
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
The international GEOSTAT summer school provides training for young researchers and interested users on open-source software tools to analyse geographical data (http://geostat-course.org/). The summer school is conducted annually by reputated scientists in changing international locations (e.g. Split, Croatia 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2008). The GEOSTAT 2011 will be held at the University Koblenz-Landau in Germany and
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
At Nottinghamshire County Council, Julian Walters leads a team of 8 IT specialists, 4 of which are GIS experts. This team supports the implementation of a number of GIS packages across the authority and a collection of specific spatial applications. In 2009, Julian recognised the need to support the various GIS users with training to make the
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
In response to the recommendations of the GIGAS (GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES, an Action in Support) project, CEN/TC 287 Geographic Information has agreed to establish a EU-level repository of reference material on interoperability, where current and future projects can find state-of-the-art information on interoperability. By the same token, these projects could then add new reference material as they progress in
