Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
The GEBCO_08 Grid is now available as a Web Map Service(WMS), a means of accessing geo-referenced map images over the internet. These maps can be viewed in a web browser; incorporated in your own web application or displayed in various GIS/mapping packages.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Knowledge of water depth (bathymetry) is essential to many marine activities, such as coastal and offshore engineering, environment protection, conservation and civil security. Historically, organisations have relied on paper and digital navigational charts for limited available bathymetric information or contracted their own surveys at substantial cost. SeaZone, the market leader for marine geographic information, is launching
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that registration is now open for the SmartGeometry 2011 Conference. This highly anticipated conference is the world’s premier event focused on computational and parametric design tools, technologies, and methodologies that allow and encourage new forms of architectural and
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
