Monday, January 24th, 2011
On January 11-12, NOAA hosted a Games and Simulation Summit at its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. Participants represented 10 federal and state agencies, universities, and nongovernmental organizations. Panel discussions focused on how gaming and simulation technology can best be used to reach specific audiences, explored current “best practices” in government agencies, and reviewed evaluation
Monday, January 24th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Ordering Services for Earth Observation Products Interface Standard. This candidate interface standard defines interfaces for ordering products derived from Earth observation satellites. Learn More
Monday, January 24th, 2011
ERDAS will attend Defense Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2011 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, UK, January 24-27, 2011. DGI facilitates high-level discussion of the importance and challenges of using geospatial intelligence in defense and national security operations. It is the largest forum of its kind in Europe, averaging about 600 attendees from
Monday, January 24th, 2011
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in Booth #52 at the Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2011 Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London this week. The company will showcase GeoExpress 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and
Monday, January 24th, 2011
URISA is pleased to announce its 2011 Student Competition. The 2011 Student Competition will consist of a two-tier approach that includes Papers and Posters. Submissions are due on or before June 6, 2011. For complete details: http://www.urisa.org/student_paper_competition
Monday, January 24th, 2011
NAVTEQ announced today at the Transportation Research Board conference that Caliper Corporation is now providing NAVTEQ map data in its TransCAD® Transportation Planning Software. TransCAD, one of the most widely-used transportation planning software in North America, provides extensive transportation modeling and geographic information system (GIS) capabilities for transportation professionals. By embedding NAVTEQ map data into TransCAD
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce that GeoCalc Java is available for beta testing. GIS software developers will be able to incorporate Blue Marble GeoCalc libraries into their software in Java development environment. If you are interested in being a part of the testing process for this exciting new version of GeoCalc, please contact
Monday, January 24th, 2011
The European Commission presented its midterm review on the development of Europe’s satellite navigation programs Galileo and EGNOS. Recent progress in the development of Galileo, including the signature of four major contracts and the testing of the first four operational satellites, means the satellite navigation system will deliver initial services in 2014. It is expected
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Getmapping’s aerial photographic survey of Scotland is being compiled into a comprehensive set of terrain scenery by Horizon Simulation for the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, ‘Generation X’ edition. The first volume which complements scenery of the whole of England and Wales was the Western Isles. It has been closely followed by the Shetland and Orkney
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Avia Motor and Avia Sail are affordable and versatile Windows® software products that bring sophisticated instrumentation to the everyday power boater or sailor. Avia software receives data from onboard sensors via the industry standard NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000® protocols, and presents the data as crystal-clear analog and digital instruments on your Windows® PC, netbook or
