Monday, November 29th, 2010
Autodesk University: Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, today announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has signed a multi-flex, enterprise license agreement for Autodesk products and Autodesk-related services and training. The contract value of the deal is $6 million over a three year period
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Esri received the top honor in the mapping/geographic information system (GIS) components category of Visual Studio Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards. Esri won the award for its ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The ArcGIS API is designed for developers who want to create Web-based mapping applications quickly and easily with minimal coding. Many governments
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Seed maker DuPont Co., wind-turbine manufacturer General Electric Co. and insurer Zurich Financial Services AG are devising products to help the world adapt to climate change, a potential $135 billion-a-year market by 2030. The companies are driven in part by the failure of international efforts to cut the greenhouse gases that scientists say contribute to global warming. Read More
Monday, November 29th, 2010
EduTubePlus is a European curriculum-related video library and hybrid eServices for the pedagogical exploitation of video in class. The EduTubePlus project aims to develop a European hybrid, multilingual video-based service for schools. This service will integrate thousands of multi-lingual curriculum-related video-clips by major European educational TV & video providers, with tools enabling educators to enrich the
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Frequently, geospatial data providers must collaborate with many organizations to collect new data and/or update their existing data holdings. For example, when federal agencies want to synchronize with geodata updates coming from ‘closest-to-source’ publishers such as local or state providers. Another case is when content providers are crowd-sourcing their data updates or supporting volunteer geographic information
Monday, November 29th, 2010
The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Interoperability Pilot developed a nation-wide demonstration of standards-based products that make immediate access to current data a reality. The CGDI Pilot showed that municipal, provincial and territorial authorities can update data and automatically make their up-to-date data available online in real time to those who need it, anywhere across
Monday, November 29th, 2010
ESDIN aims to be a bridge between the theory and the practice – from the INSPIRE Directive towards implementation and usage of interoperable geographical data by Spatially-enabled Societies.
Monday, November 29th, 2010
As part of the procedure to realize ESA’s series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be the eighth Earth Explorer, both address key climate and environmental change issues. The selection follows ESA’s Call for Earth Explorer Proposals that was
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Cartographica is designed for people who need to work with geospatial data to create maps, analyze data, convert between formats, and discover new information about your data and the world in which it exists. As such, we have emphasized easy importation, exploration, analysis, and output in the design of Cartographica and hope that you find
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Southampton scientists along with colleagues in New Zealand have used a sophisticated optical mapping technique to identify and accurately measure changes in coastal morphology following a catastrophic series of landslides. “Our findings are important for assessing geological hazards and reducing the dangers to human settlements,” said geophysicist Professor Jon Bull of the University of Southampton’s School of
