Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Matrox Graphics Inc. unveils the ultimate building block for video wall controllers with the new Matrox Mura™ controller board, capable of capturing four full 1080p HD inputs and simultaneously driving four monitors at up to 2048×1080, while maintaining full RGB 888 image quality.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
How to Increase Production Throughput Using GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial – GXL-A: a high volume image production solution that extends UltraMap for high speed Ortho and Mosaic creation. In October 2010, PCI Geomatics and Vexcel Imaging GmbH introduced the GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A), a new high speed production solution that extends the UltraMap photogrammetric workflow software to provide
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
This 2010 assessment is a collaborative project of the Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments. It was designed and prepared under the guidance of a federal-provincial-territorial steering committee and is published by the Canadian Councils of Resource Ministers. It forms part of Canada’s commitment to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Authors and reviewers include hundreds
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a new URISA initiative to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community. The VC is an advisory board made up of URISA young professionals who represent the young membership of the organization. The Cabinet’s
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The sixth SWOMM – Scientific Workshop on Mountain Mobility and Transport – will be held this year on 14 December at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla. The SWOMM 2010 is promoted by the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy and it is organized in cooperation with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat –
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Geneq Inc., the pioneer in high-performance single frequency GPS mapping systems, announced one of the world’s smallest dual frequency (GPS L1/L2) GPS RTK receivers for high-accuracy GIS data collection. Named the SXBlue III GPS, it is one of the smallest dual frequency RTK GPS receivers in the world, weighing slightly more than one pound (517g)
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The 2011 digital boundaries covering New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, are now available to download from the Statistics NZ website. Compressed in zip format, the files contain the following geographic layers: meshblock (MB), area unit (AU), urban area (UA), territorial authorities (TA), regional council (RC), wards, and community boards (CB). A key reason for the inclusion of
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard, Version 2.0. The OGC WCS 2.0 standard defines a standard interface and operations that enable interoperable access to geospatial coverages. “Coverages”( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary/c ) are digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, digital
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
With the addition of data from the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, AeroGRID is now able to provide off-the-shelf aerial photography from over 50 countries. Other recent additions to the AeroGRID online image library include coverage of major cities in Brazil, Uruguay, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and the Philippines. Much of this library is
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
As you might know, the 53rd Photogrammetric Week will take place again in Stuttgart from September 5 – 9, 2011. The Photogrammetric Week enjoys international recognition as an upgrading seminar for the disciplines Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics – this regular event was already initiated in 1909 by Carl Pulfrich. The 53rd Photogrammetric Week will be headlined
