Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Spatial Dimension is pleased to announce that Jon Swire-Thompson has joined its Board as Non-Executive Chairman. Jon has over four decades of operational and strategic experience in the global financial, engineering and geoscience markets. As Group Chief Executive Officer of Snowden Mining Industry Consultants, Jon lead a management team in creating a highly successful and
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
ESA is making land data maps of Europe and Africa available to the public online in near-real time. The maps target land activities that are of particular interest to the agriculture and food-security user communities. The Culture-MERIS service demonstration – based on data from Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) at a resolution of 300 m
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Four teams of university students have been selected to conduct their experiments in a series of parabolic microgravity flights on the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. The research ranges from helping restore balance in humans to understanding how planets form. The students were chosen from 13 teams whose proposals were short-listed in September 2010. During the final
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
When the Earth shook with a magnitude of 9.0 off the coast of Japan on Friday, 11 March, Olaf Kranz and his team at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen had to react quickly. In close cooperation with the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, we analysed the
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
An Integrated Maritime Strategy is being developed for the Channel region by an INTERREG funded project, Channel Arc Manche Integrated Strategy (CAMIS). This project involves UK and French partners to identify a strategic vision for the Channel which will support implementation of relevant national and EU marine and maritime policies. A key component of this
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, officially announced its latest partner in Nepal, where SeaGate Institute of Technology is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software. Situated in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, SeaGate Institute of Technology offers services and training related to Information Technology. The services are involved with GIS
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, officially announced its latest product – Mobile Cadastral GIS 3.0, to assist in field survey and cadastral navigation measurement. Since being first released in November 2010, Mobile Cadastral GIS has been utilized extensively. In view of a large quantity of positive feedback and valuable
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
A pilot evaluation area for SeaZone HydroSpatial Version 2.0 is to be launched in April 2011. This is a great opportunity for marine data users to evaluate and help shape the next generation of SeaZone HydroSpatial. Developments will include :
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
RapidEye announced today that it has recently completed an extensive imagery campaign over Africa. The campaign, which ran for 25 weeks from September of 2010 until March 1, 2011, produced over 107 Million km² of the continent of Africa which is now available for purchase from the RapidEye Library. h
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
NAVTEQ is supplying NAVTEQ map and location content for Panasonic’s LUMIX DMC-TZ20/ZS10 and DMC-FT3/TS3, the newest member of Panasonic’s acclaimed LUMIX Series of digital cameras. Traditionally, consumers can only organize their photo collection via date/time. With the integration of maps and location content in an increasing number of imaging devices, consumers can now geographically organize
