Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), as part of its lead role in the Architecture Implementation Pilot for theGlobal Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), announced videos showing the remarkable progress that has been made in implementing GEOSS. GEOSS is a major multi-year program of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The videos were prepared for
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Intergraph will exhibit and present at SPAR Europe 2010, the December 7-8 at Amsterdam RAI, in The Netherlands. During two days, the SPAR Europe conference will showcase the very freshest, next-generation scanning technology available today and attract the world’s experts in 3D data capture and post-processing for engineering, construction, and asset management. Read More
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Trimble introduced today the SiteFID™ Gas Monitoring solution for the environmental services market. The solution, specifically designed for environmental consultants and landfill operations managers, integrates positioning and mobile computing capabilities coupled with Flame Ionization Detection (FID) gas sensor technology, helping mobile workers to streamline their workflow as well as improve accuracy and compliance while on
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
GeoFly GmbH has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp photgrammetric digital aerial camera system. Innovative hardware, electronics and software result in a lighter, more compact camera system, so it is suitable for smaller aircraft and projects requiring a rapid response. However, the camera provides the same high geometric accuracy,
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce a functional enhancement within the Geographic Calculator v7.5, the addition of an enhanced area calculation tool. Whether it is coordinate, vector, or raster data types, the Blue Marble Desktop allows you to address your data conversion challenges in the same application interface with powerful conversion and transformation
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
EFI’s Winter and Summer School 2011: Making values work – exploring multiple perspectives in understanding the valuation of forest ecosystems will be organized in late March 2011 in Freiburg, Germany and in late September 2011 in Croatia.
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) is scheduled for July 5-8, 2011, at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Audience. GI_Forum focuses on an international audience that shares an interest in GIScience and Technology. This Call for Papers aims at researchers who design, develop and apply advanced methods and techniques of Geoinformatics to a broad range of application
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Envista Corporation announced it has secured $4.1M from seven investors toward a $7.6 million equity-based funding round. The company’s initial investors included New England-based Borealis Ventures (Hanover, NH), Egan-Managed Capital (Boston, MA), and Point Judith Capital (Providence, RI). Envista will leverage the capital to fund business expansion and product development to meet global demands to
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
DigitalGlobe announced it has finalized the judging panel for its inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge. The judges, respected scientists from around the world, will be responsible for reviewing final submissions and selecting the 15 papers that best exemplify sound science and innovative applications of 8-band, high-resolution imagery. Winners will be announced on December 16 and invited
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
UC Santa Barbara Professor Michael Goodchild, a global pioneer in geographic information science, is the first scholar appointed to the Jack and Laura Dangermond Professorship in geography. The Dangermonds established the endowed chair with a major philanthropic gift to advance the development of geographic information system technology in an academic environment. They are co-founders of Environmental