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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

SpecTIR Releases Free Sample Hyperspectral Imagery

SpecTIR has made available a number of airborne hyperspectral imagery data sets for research, training, and educational purposes. They will be available from the SpecTIR website at http://www.spectir.com/download.html and cover a wide variety of subjects which include : Gulf of Mexico coastal National Wildlife Refuge wetlands prior to oil landing onshore.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

TED Talks – Blaise Aguera y Arcas Demos Augmented-reality Maps

Imagine using the power of augmented reality not just for places and monuments but also to get public information on people arround you. Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques, and in 2001, he made

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

2nd Edition Specialist Course Management Analysis for Flood Risk and Flooding

Following the success of the first course, start the time to register for the 2nd edition of the Course Specialist Analysis of Risk Management for Flood and Flood (CEAGRAI 2011), which TECNOSYLVA participates as a partner. This year the course will be jointly organized by the UCLM and UPM, and capital will be held in Madrid, between May

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

IGN DMS GROUP Chooses to Adapt to INSPIRE Metadata

DMS Group becomes the first company founded and run by students develop a project to IGN in this area. The European Directive INSPIRE and its implementation in Spain “LISIGE” provide the guidance necessary to make available to the public geographic information generated by any public institution documented through metadata. Read More

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

TanDEM-X Science Service System

The TanDEM-X Science Service System is a web interface for the submission and evaluation of scientific proposals. The portal is the main interface for Principal Investigators to define their acquisition requests. It is further used to monitor and track the status of submitted proposals and is a tool for the science coordination team to help

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Forest News From Latin America and the Caribbean

Just to bring to your attention the first issue of IISD’s new publication, Latin America and Caribbean Regional Update, which includes the latest news and information on sustainable development issues throughout the region.The first issue includes several stories on forestry and biodiversity, including recent activities on bigleaf mahogany and on the International Year of Forests. To

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

NASA Images of the Flooding in Memphis

The Thematic Mapper on Landsat 5 captured the top image on May 10, 2011, and the bottom image (showing non-flooded conditions) on April 21, 2010. Both images are natural color and show the area as it would look to the human eye. In May 2011, muddy water has pushed over the Mississippi’s banks both east

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

2011 Farm Subsidy Data Harvest: Millionaires and Missing Money

For the third year running, an international group of journalists, transparency activists  and computer programmers gathered in Brussels for three days to gather and analyse new government data on who got what from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. So far, data on just €15.4 billion in payments made in the 2010 financial year have been published

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

SuperPad 3 Selected by Survey & Instrument Specialists in Australia

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, is delighted to announce the latest sales achievement in Australia, where Survey & Instrument Specialists selected SuperPad 3 through Cody Corporation. Cody Corporation, SuperGeo’s exclusive reseller in Australia and New Zealand, successfully promoted SuperPad 3 to Survey & Instrument Specialists, a reputed equipment

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

SuperWebGIS Design Eco-Cultural Web-GIS for Environmental Navigation

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, designed an Eco-cultural GIS website for Tungnan University to integrate the campus navigation system with the information of surrounding environment, ecology and culture. Aimed to function as a GIS platform for Tungnan University to establish a campus navigation system, the Eco-cultural Web-GIS employs Internet