Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The National Geographic Institute ( IGN ) goes on sale to the public interest, the publication of the book”Argentina 500k” , a work that shows the scale 1:500.000 Argentine territory, both on satellite images as topographic line plus its corresponding display on DVD. It is a work done in record time by the staff of IGN and the National
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The Provincial Water Administration (APA) in the province of Chaco installed the second GPS station, donated by the National Geographic Institute (IGN) in coordination with the Provincial Directorate of Land Registry and Mapping (DPCyC). The system will involve a major technological update knowledge about the area and assist the professional development of surveyors, engineers, physicists
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Residents in Sembawang, Woodlands and Yishun Towns now have easy and convenient access to 11 parks and nature sites in northern Singapore, via the 25km Northern Explorer PCN. This new PCN offers both urban and rural settings, providing a wide spectrum of experiences to cater to users with different interests.
Friday, December 31st, 2010
Esri president Jack Dangermond discusses a new modality for GIS, where advances in technology, measurement, software, science, and open data policies are creating a geospatial infrastructure to support better decision making, communication, and efficiency. Learn More
Friday, December 31st, 2010
Telvent, the leading real-time IT solutions and information provider for a sustainable world, has been selected by Shanxi Electric Power Co. to implement a new data acquisition system that will allow the company to address service outages more quickly and provide a more reliable network.
Friday, December 31st, 2010
The 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7) with the theme of the Knowledge Generation will be held in Perth, Australia from 23-25, August 2011 in conjunction with the Western Australian Land Information System (WALIS) Forum and the State Natural Resources Management (NRM) Conference.
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
As the new year approaches, NOAA ships and independent contractors are preparing for the nation’s 177th hydrographic surveying season, aiming to collect critically needed ocean and coastal mapping data for 2,525 square nautical miles in high-traffic coastal waters of the continental United States and Alaska. The 2011 surveys will acquire data to update the country’s
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Development Minister, José Blanco, and President of the Balearic Government, Francesc Antich, today signed in Madrid a collaboration agreement for the implementation of various measures in terms of infrastructure in this region. On the basis of this agreement, in this financial year 2010, the Ministry of Development will help finance various activities to a maximum
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
SITNAMAP is a GIS tool for handling geographic information. It represents SITNA’s clear intention to offer a better service to society meeting its users’ main demands: providing more geographic data and tools to work on this data. Like any other GIS, it works as an alphanumerical database whose records are associated with graphic objects on
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
NVIDIA today announced the addition of 20 new CUDA Research Centers and CUDA Teaching Centers, underscoring the continued growth of GPU computing across the globe. The new institutions — located in the U.S., Germany, France, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, and Turkey — are focused on leveraging the immense parallel processing power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to
