Thursday, April 14th, 2011
PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, congratulates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, a Professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science, on winning this year’s Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal award. The individual award, widely regarded as Canada’s top award for science and engineering, recognizes continued excellence and influence in research
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
COM.Geo 2011 conference includes 16 programs and events, such as keynotes (NASA, U.S. FCC, Microsoft, OGC, etc.), full papers, short papers, tech talks, demo talks, posters, panels, courses, OGC workshop, Microsoft workshop, demo show, reception, cruise, banquet, exhibitions, job fairs, etc. There are more than 100 speakers to present their latest work on innovative geospatial
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
The USGS has heard from many map users and developers that they would like to showcase their efforts and learn more about using The National Map services, viewer and data. To address these desires, the upcoming The National Map Users Conference (TNM UC), has added a “mashathon.” A geospatial mashathon is similar to “map galleries,”
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
ISDE7 is renowned for attracting the world leaders in digital earth technologies. The dynamic conference program will see over 130 papers and many posters from the world’s leading thinkers on areas of economic and social sustainable development, environmental protection, disaster mitigation, natural resource conservation and improving living standards.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Geospatial Holdings, Inc. (Geospatial) and Reduct NV (Reduct) have formed a strategic alliance to expedite the deployment of Reduct’s DuctRunner/Smart Probe Pipeline Mapping Technologies and Geospatial’s GeoUnderground™ Web-based GIS Portal into the global marketplace. Highlights of the alliance include :
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Today, Esri released its innovative American Community Survey (ACS) ACS Population Summary and ACSHousing Summary reports, containing data from the 2005–2009 ACS five-year period estimates. Esri added value to the ACS data by offering the data for nonstandard geographies and simplifying use of the ACS margin of error (MOE). The reports are available immediately to guest users and subscribers
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Two new environmental projects to preserve biodiversity and provide a solution to bi-national management of the Artibonite basin, for $20 million over 4 years, have just been launched. “Today in Haiti, population explosion and increased human pressure on the country’s natural resources is degrading the environment,” said Jean-Marie Claude Germain, Minister of the Environment. “To cope
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Since the launch of the AutoCAD WS mobile app last September, we have received one question more than all others: When are you going to release AutoCAD WS for Android? And so we are delighted to announce that this free app which has already been downloaded more than one million times will be available to download
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Septentrio’s AsteRx3 receivers are successfully tracking the GLONASS CDMA L3 signal transmitted by the first GLONASS-K1 satellite. This satellite was launched on February 26. It carries a payload capable of transmitting a CDMA signal in the L3 band, with a center frequency of 1202.025 MHz, in addition to the standard L1/L2 GLONASS FDMA signals. It is
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Vegetation mapping and monitoring provides critical information used to make informed, accurate decisions in a myriad of applications. ENVI offers a number of advanced tools to extract vegetation information from imagery so that you can address problems that traditionally required more expensive, time-consuming visits to the field. See the recorded Webinar:Using ENVI for Image Analysis of
