Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Geodeticca 3D Works has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp digital aerial camera system. This is the first digital aerial camera ever purchased by a Slovak company. The transaction was realized by UltraCam distributor Expert_for_3D_Landscape, based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Learn More
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 8.4 for Adobe Illustrator. The latest version of this mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data for both print and electronic distribution now includes a powerful
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Cadcorp, the UK based developer and supplier of GIS and web mapping software, has been selected by Wiltshire Police to deliver location-based information to many applications across the Force. Cadcorp technology will play a key role in the police force’s ICT infrastructure. Learn More
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Autodesk, Inc. announced updates to AutoCAD WS, a free* web and mobile application that uses cloud computing technology to enable AutoCAD software users to view, edit and share their designs through web browsers and mobile devices. With more than 900,000 downloads, AutoCAD WS now supports viewing, editing and sharing of 2D Autodesk Inventor DWG files.
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Deloitte Consulting’s Will Sarni, Director and leader of the group’s Enterprise Water Strategy, Sustainability & Climate Change practice, will headline the keynote presentations today, March 2nd, 2011, for the live online launch of the Mission Critical Water Virtual Summit, a fully virtual online event dedicated to water sustainability issues. Sarni will present an overview of
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
At the workshop you can take advantage of the focused technical sessions on SLOPE/W, SEEP/W and SIGMA/W to sharpen your numerical modelling skills under the direction of GEO-SLOPE’s expert engineering team. Details of the Europe 2011 Geotechnical Modelling Workshop are available online, and space is limited to 30 participants, so register today!
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
The Faculty of Geosciences organizes a summerschool ‘The Dutch Delta in 2050’ from the 27th of June till the 1st of July. In this summerschool secondary school students will try to answer the questions: How do we respond to challenges like flood-risk and climate change? How will we make sure people can still joyfully live
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Landuse change models are typically calibrated to reproduce known historic changes. Calibration results can then be assessed by comparing two datasets: the simulated landuse map and the actual landuse map at the same time. A common method for this is the Kappa statistic, which expresses the agreement between two categorical datasets corrected for the expected
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Bluesky has supplied a package of ultra high-resolution aerial maps to Councils in Cheshire, England. The package includes countywide coverage of 12.5cm resolution, full colour, digital aerial photography together with the Councils’ first ever Colour Infra Red survey and a highly accurate height model (Digital Terrain Model or DTM). The aerial map data will be
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Terrain, an Athens-based cartographic company, is publishing the first highly detailed, large-scale maps (1:10,000 to 1:100,000) of Greece using GIS data exclusively acquired by mobile teams of cartographers. By foot, bike, auto and boat, Terrain surveyor teams, traveling with Ashtech MobileMapper 100 handheld smart GNSS receivers loaded with ArcPad, are mapping Greece in unprecedented rich
