Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Paul Ramsey, Geospatial Architect at OpenGeo and longtime leader in the PostGIS open source community, presented the keynote at PgCon, the international gathering of core PostgreSQL developers and community members in Ottawa, Canada on May 19. The keynote covered the PostGIS spatial database, how GIS is being used inside PostgreSQL, and the specific development efforts
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Sustainable food production remains a pressing challenge, so scientists have been assessing the potential of the future Sentinel-1 mission to deliver new methods of monitoring crops grown around the world from space. Sentinel-1, expected to be launched in 2013, is one of the five missions that ESA is developing for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Is there a good place to develop wave energy in Oregon’s 3-mile swath of the Pacific? State planners are developing a series of maps that they hope will reveal places in the territorial sea that aren’t vital to the fishing or shipping industries, or sensitive marine species, or surfers, or oceanographic research, or undersea transmission cables
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
A new Whitepaper by Depiction discusses GIS 101. The paper outlines what a GIS is and includes terms and concepts that apply to GIS. Also included are information about digital mapping and projections. Read More
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Experts from the European Environment Agency (EEA) will be at Green Week in Brussels to take part in the debate on resource efficiency and provide the latest data in the accompanying exhibition. The EEA is coordinating a debate on resource efficiency indicators, co-organised by the European Commission and Eurostat.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Countries are faced with the new challenges of adjusting forest policy and management practices to address Climate Change, while maintaining a balance with the many other objectives of forest management. FAO and the NFP-Facility are working to support countries in efforts to integrate climate change into their national forest programmes or forest policy framework. A main
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Beth Bernitt has rejoined HOK, a global architectural design firm, as chief marketing officer. In this role, Bernitt will provide global strategic leadership for HOK’s marketing, communications and business development efforts. Based in HOK’s Tampa office, she will work across HOK’s global network of 25 offices.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Registration for INSPIRE ANNEX II and III data specifications testing still open The INSPIRE Team has already received over 45 registrations from SDICs and LMOs to test the INSPIRE Annex II and III Specifications that will become available on the 20th June 2011. The testing activities will take place between 20 June and 21 October 2011. Details can be found
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
CloverPoint is working with three local companies on the development of QR code campaigns. We can’t tell you who they are, because it’s top secret. But in the meantime if you are unfamiliar with the QR Code movement here’s the Wikipedia definition: A QR Code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced today that it has signed a contract for $2.5 million (CAD) with ScanEx Research and Development Center (ScanEx) to provide RADARSAT data information to multiple ground stations in Russia over three years. The information will be used by Russian commercial, academic, and government users for applications that include maritime
