Sunday, February 13th, 2011
The University of Salzburg Centre for Geoinformatics and the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences offer an annual forum to the worldwide geoinformatics community, bringing together English-speaking researchers and practitioners across disciplines and industries. Simultaneously, the GI_Forum connects participants into a well established co-located regional symposium – Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) – sharing the state-of-the
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
The ” AGEO Award “aims to students through recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of geographic information science to promote. The official award ceremony and presentation of the best works made in the context of an event of the Austrian Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information ( AGEO ).
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Protected Planet, an interactive mapping website launched in October, provides information and media on protected areas across the world. Developers from the United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) built the server-side components of the application, while front-end development and visual design was handled by Vizzuality, a Madrid-based company that specializes in biodiversity informatics.
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
The normalization extension is now available for gvSIG 1.10. This version is the previous one, but it has been updated to work on gvSIG 1.10, and allows to separate chains of text in different parts and storing them in table fields. These chains of text can have their origin in plain text files or in
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Bing Spatial Data Services, a next generation spatial search offering added to the Bing API. This new service offers the benefits of cloud hosting and distributed computing, allowing customers to upload their data to Microsoft’s servers and perform spatial queries under the umbrella of their existing Bing Maps License. The blog here provides further information. In addition,
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Luxion, the leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and makers of KeyShot, the first realtime ray tracing and global illumination program, today announced the release of KeyShot 2.2 as a free upgrade to the groundbreaking KeyShot 2 application introduced last summer.
Friday, February 11th, 2011
OnAsset Intelligence Inc.wireless asset tracking, sensing, and control solutions, today announced that its SENTRY wireless tracking solution received TMC’s Best-of-Show award at last week’s ITEXPO in Miami.
Friday, February 11th, 2011
These maps show the rate at which the ice sheet over the British Isles during the last Ice Age melted. The ka on the images is short for thousand years and BP is ‘before present.’ So 27 Ka BP is the map of the ice sheet at 27,000 years ago. Read More
Friday, February 11th, 2011
The Cosmo-SkyMed satellites, operated by the Italian space agency, have acquired the first images of the Italian oil tankerSavina Caylyn since it was hijacked earlier this week by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. According to the satellite radar images, acquired by Italian space agency (ASI) and e-GEOS on Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning, the
Friday, February 11th, 2011
To improve our understanding of how atmospheric rivers form and behave and evaluate the operational use of unmanned aircraft for investigating these phenomena, NASA scientists, aircraft and sensors will participate in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-led airborne field campaign slated to begin Feb. 11. Called Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers, or WISPAR, the
