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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

CENN: Discussion of Report: Assessment of Land Management Legislation

The Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC Caucasus) in partnership with the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) is implementing the regional project Sustainable Land Management for Mitigating Land Degradation and Reducing Poverty in the South Caucasus Region. The project is being implemented with the financial support of the European Union and covers the Khrami-Debeda

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Full-scale Ops of Russia’s GLONASS to Start by July

Full-scale operations of Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) are expected to start sometime in January–June, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Director Anatoly Perminov said, ITAR-TASS reported Tuesday. In early December 2010, Perminov said GLONASS was expected to reach global coverage in March 2011. At present, GLONASS has 21 operational satellites among a total of 26 satellites of

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

SMAP Digital Map Management System

SMAP Technologies Inc. is an electronic map supplier, providing navigation system, LBS, Internet Map, and GIS projects for applications in various fields. Besides Taiwan, SMAP digital map database also includes Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, etc. Moreover, SMAP is eagerly planning to establish the map data of the countries in southeast Asia and looks forward to

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

New HCA UK Engineering Panel to Save Time and Money for Local Authorities

The Homes and Communities Agency has today announced the successful companies appointed to a new framework panel designed to enable local authorities and other public sector organisations to access technical engineering services more quickly and at a greatly reduced cost. A total of 15 companies have been appointed to the Agency’s new Engineering Panel, and will

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

USGS Forest and Climate Change Expert Named 2010 AAAS Fellow

Craig D. Allen, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year 503 members have been awarded this peer-nominated honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New Fellows for

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

ERDAS APOLLO 2011 Now Available

ERDAS proudly announces the official release of ERDAS APOLLO 2011, now available for download on the ERDAS website. ERDAS APOLLO is the market-leading enterprise solution for managing and delivering massive volumes of distributed geospatial data and imagery. This server-based offering is available in three product tiers to suit a wide spectrum of organizations – from

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Intergraph® Releases New Version of Enterprise Viewing and Markup Software

Intergraph® has released the newest version of its enterprise viewing and markup software solution, SmartPlant Markup Plus.  SmartPlant Markup Plus enables efficient and cost-effective precision view, markup and related capabilities for the many different types of engineering and business documents used in the process, power and marine facility lifecycle. Read More

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

FEMA Administrator Fugate to Keynote Esri Federal User Conference

William Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), will give the Keynote Address at the Esri Federal User Conference (FedUC) on January 19, 2011, in Washington, D.C. Each year, this event draws more than 2,500 leaders and geographic information system (GIS) professionals from all levels of government. Read More

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

GeoForce Technologies Purchases SimActive’s Photogrammetry Software

SimActive Inc. is pleased to announce that GeoForce Technologies Co., Ltd. of Taiwan has purchased its Correlator3D™ product. GeoForce will be using the software suite in conjunction with its UltraCamXp camera system.

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Northern Sea Route Development: Space Technology

In 2010 the service of operational satellite-based radar monitoring was widely applied by FSUE “Atomflot” for ice situation monitoring along the Northern Sea Route. Under the contract, reception and processing of radar images from RADARSAT-1 satellite was carried out by ScanEx specialists using proprietary distributed network of receiving centers in Moscow, Megion and Magadan.