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Saturday, December 18th, 2010

LizardTech Releases MrSID Decode SDK 8.0

LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the release of the 8.0 version of the MrSID Decode SDK (DSDK) to complement the recent release of LizardTech GeoExpress 8. This SDK gives developers tools to support viewing files in the MrSID Generation 4

Friday, December 17th, 2010

How Hard Are We Pushing the Land?

We may be becoming an ever more technologically advanced society, but we remain as dependent as ever — if not more and more so — on the natural world that surrounds us. That is one takeaway from new NASA research that has found humans are using an increasing amount of the Earth’s total land plant

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California

At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists from NASA and other agencies presented the latest research on the magnitude 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, that region’s largest in nearly 120 years. Scientists have studied the earthquake’s effects in unprecedented detail using data from GPS, advanced simulation tools and new remote

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Linked Open Data and Spatial Data Infrastructures

For the first time, in countries that are opening up governmental data resources, geography experts have a common ground when talking standards with experts in statistics, health, transport and have something in common – i.e. linked data. Read More

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

MIS Active Partners with Cadcorp to Meet the Mapping Needs of the Social Housing Sector

GIS and web mapping software developer Cadcorp has been selected by MIS Active Management Systems to provide mapping and geographic information processing capabilities for its modular housing management solution – ActiveH. The partnership which was announced last month at the IT in Housing Exhibition, Olympia, London, brings together two British software suppliers with a common

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

France’s National Mapping Agency Licenses NEXTMap France Map Data from Intermap Technologies

Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, today announced a USD $804,518 contract with the national mapping agency of France, the Institut Géographique National (IGN). The Company will supply IGN with digital terrain models (DTMs), generated as part of its completed NEXTMap Europe countrywide mapping program, for portions of southeastern France

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

DigitalGlobe Announces Winners of Inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge

DigitalGlobe today announced the winners of the inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge. The five winning papers demonstrated scientific excellence in terms of sound reasoning, problem definition, methodology and presentation. In addition to the five winners, the judges identified 10 additional high-quality papers that presented compelling research into how 8-Band Imagery adds substantial value in a wide

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Getmapping ‘WMS’ Service Underpins Zubed Crime Mapping for Milton Keynes

A new community safety map for Milton Keynes, delivered by location intelligence specialists Zubed, is underpinned by a WMS (Web Mapping Service) feed of Ordnance Survey maps from Getmapping.

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Alexander Buck New IUFRO Executive Director

The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) with Headquarters in Vienna, Austria, has a new Executive Director. On 1 December 2010, Alexander Buck assumed office following the departure of Peter Mayer who became Director General of the Austrian Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape. Alexander Buck’s position as Executive

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Bentley Selected to Join Consortium for U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on building energy efficiency.