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Friday, February 18th, 2011

Measuring Forestry’s Impact on Water Availability

Undertaken by a team of CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship scientists for the National Water Commission (NWC) and Forest & Wood Products Australia, the project developed modelling tools to provide greater confidence in estimating the impact of new plantations on catchment stream flow. Australia’s blueprint for water reform – the National Water Initiative (NWI)

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Two Open Communications Posts at EFI’s FLEGT & REDD Unit

The EFI FLEGT and REDD unit executes two Facilities: The EU FLEGT Facility and the EU REDD Facility. The Communications Team Leader will be responsible for leading communication activities for both Facilities supporting the European Commission, EU Member States and partner countries in communicating about FLEGT and REDD, and develops and manages a number of

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Register Now: Complimentary Webinar – CompassCom Software Demo

Join us for a Webinar on March 2. CompassCom Software has the most versatile fleet management solution in the industry! Learn what separates CompassCom Software from the competition! Learn more from our live demo and knowledgeable experts!!  

Friday, February 18th, 2011

New 52°North Metadata Management Project

con terra GmbH, specialist in the development and operation of spatial data infrastructures, and the 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH establish a new 52°North Open Source Project on metadata management, based on con terra`s smartEditor software. Metadata is an essential means for providing access to spatial data and spatial information services. Accordingly,

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Partnership Agreement for Leica SmartNet Greece, Incorporating MetricaNet

On 31th January, a Leica SmartNet Greece partnership agreement between Leica Geosystems and its distribution partner Metrica, has been signed in Athens. Locally the network will maintain the name MetricaNet, as part of Leica SmartNet Europe, due to the long standing marketing of MetricaNet in Greece. The agreement forms a new partnership to establish a

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Greenstone Carbon Management to Showcase Online Carbon Management Software

Greenstone is a specialist carbon solutions company. We work in partnership with major commercial and public sector organisations to enable them to measure, manage and mitigate their carbon emissions and obligations responsibly. Greenstone’s central proposition is to provide our clients with the necessary tools, skills and knowledge to measure and manage their carbon emissions on an

Friday, February 18th, 2011

GeoCore 2.0 Release Features Spatial Database Support for Software Developers

Blue Marble Geographics announces the release of GeoCore 2.0, the all-in-one data conversion developer tool kit for geospatial data. The updated version of GeoCore includes the latest versions of GeoTransform, GeoCalc, and GeoTranslate software development toolkits. With these three products combined into GeoCore, users can seamlessly work with any Blue Marble data conversion toolkits in

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Essays on Geography and GIS, Volume 3, Now Available

Esri recently released Volume 3 in its popular Essays on Geography and GIS e-book series. In this collection of essays and articles, thought leaders in the fields of geography and geographic information system (GIS) technology provide insight into the power of spatial thinking. Essays on Geography and GIS, Volume 3, is available for download at no

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Trimble’s Next Generation GeoExplorer 6000 Series Handheld Delivers High-Accuracy GNSS Positioning

Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) introduced today the new GeoExplorer® 6000 series of high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) handheld computers. The series delivers dramatic improvements in difficult GNSS environments such as urban canyons and under tree canopy using Trimble® Floodlight™ satellite shadow reduction technology. The Trimble GeoExplorer 6000 series handhelds are purpose built for high-accuracy data collection

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

RapidEye Completes Second Coverage of China in Two Years

RapidEye announced today that the second coverage of China for the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) in as many years has been delivered. The imagery campaign, which ran from August 1, 2010 through January 11, 2011 was intended to cover almost 5.8 Million square kilometers; 60% of the country. The project was successfully delivered