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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg 2011: Early Registration and Call for Posters

The beautiful world cultural heritage city of Salzburg is the setting for the Geoinformatics Forum (GI_Forum) symposium to be held from July 5-8, 2011 at the University of Salzburg Austria, organised by the Centre of Geoinformatics in cooperation with the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German University of Technology. A scientifically challenging programme,

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Register for the 25th International Cartographic Conference

Thanks to the great variety of submitted papers, the scientific committee of the 25th International Cartographic Conference is building a programme covering all the facets of the field and highlighting its most innovative and pratical aspects as well as the most theoretical!

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Chile – UGI 2011 Submissions System

The system for submision of papers and posters is now available to authors. This is the sole means of submitting for UGI 2011 and it also provides all information needed for participating. Abstracts should be entered into this system, for assessment by the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC) of LOC UGI 2011. Go to www.ugi2011.cl to submit your abstracts early.

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

GIS Centre of Excellence Chooses MrSID

The GIS Centre of Excellence within the Office of Agriculture and Geoinformation (ALG) in Switzerland has recently purchased GeoExpress 8 through German reseller, GAF AG. The Centre is an agency of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and employs around forty people to manage the agriculture and environmental resources of the region. This work

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Be Together: The Bentley User Conference Registration Now Open

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that registration for this year’s Be Together: The Bentley User Conference is now open to all architects, engineers, constructors, geospatial professionals, and CAD managers. The conference takes place May 23-26, 2011, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia,

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

EPA Recognizes Campuses for Use of Combined Heat and Power

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing three facilities with the Energy Star Combined Heat and Power (CHP) award for simultaneously producing electricity and useful thermal energy from a single energy source, such as natural gas, biomass, coal, or waste heat. This technology leads to energy savings and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

DLR in your hands – the DLR App, now for iPhone

The first version of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) iPhone App is now available via the iTunes store. This free App gives users access to a wealth of information wherever they go. The DLR App is a dynamic online news aggregator that compiles all relevant information on DLR research areas of space, aviation, energy and

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

OpenGeo and Farallon Geographics Announce Partnership

Farallon Geographics, a San Francisco GIS services firm and OpenGeo, a global leader in open source geospatial solutions, announced that Farallon Geographics has added the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to its product offerings and now provides support to local OpenGeo Suite users. 

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Top 50 Projects in Latin America- to be Released

See the projects in the running to be nominated for project of the year! This Friday, CG/LA releases it’s list of top “50 Infrastructure Projects in Latin America” along with it’s list of “Top 25 Brazilian Infrastructure Projects.” Each year, CG/LA selects the most strategic and influential projects from across the region to be highlighted and

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Fugro-BKS Purchases a Vexcel Camera

Fugro-BKS Limited, a leading supplier of geographic information products and services, has acquired an UltraCamXp digital aerial camera system from Vexcel Imaging (a Microsoft Company). This new purchase will further enhance the digital photography capability of Fugro in Europe and ensure that the company continues to operate at the forefront of technology.  The large format camera will complement the company’s existing