Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
GeoIndex datasets are made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Services (WMS). View in compatible software or in portal-style websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS services. These web services allow you to bring the GeoIndex data layers into your own mapping software (GIS systems etc) to be viewed and compared alongside your own
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Inkaba yeAfrica is a collaborative German-South African Earth Science initiative that is both multidisciplinary and intercultural, dovetailing next-generation science and technology with a strong training and capacity-building component. With over 100 scientific contributions, more than half of them from students and young researchers from both countries, this workshop reflects the full scope of modern geoscience
Monday, November 1st, 2010
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the release of version 8 of GeoExpress® image compression software at the GEOINT 2010 Symposium in New Orleans this week. GeoExpress 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and manipulate satellite and aerial imagery, introduces
Monday, November 1st, 2010
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, has announced the appointment of Terry Moloney as its new President and CEO succeeding Dr. Robert Moses. On behalf of the Board of Directors, PCI Chairman, David McFadden addressed employees last week announcing this appointment. As he mentioned in his communiqué to staff, in
Monday, November 1st, 2010
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) today announced the launch of the new CDP Cities program, which will provide a system for cities worldwide to report on their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related strategies. CDP Cities, in partnership with the C40 and the Clinton Climate initiative (CCI)*, has asked the largest cities in the world committed
Monday, November 1st, 2010
GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that it has appointed Dr. William L. Ballhaus to serve on GeoEye’s board of directors. He joins nine other board members. Ballhaus, who holds a doctorate degree in aeronautics and astronautics, is currently a senior advisor and operating partner
Monday, November 1st, 2010
The data protection solution provided by Envault Corporation secures the contents of removable media through envaulting. The innovation allows enterprises to retain absolute control of the only key that opens encrypted data. The ubiquitous flash drive represents one of the most common corporate data security risks. Until now, practically the only means to protect sensitive data
Monday, November 1st, 2010
One of the major challenges of using spatial information is transferring points from a spherical object, like the earth, and displaying them on a two dimensional map. The sciences of geodesy and surveying are used by cartographers to accomplish this task. Unfortunately there is not just one way to project points to a flat map.
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
Topcon Europe Positioning B.V. announces that Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS, Livermore, California) has acquired InlandGEO, one of Topcon’s top performing distributors. InlandGEO is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and has four additional offices in Spain, two in Portugal and one in the Canary Islands. In addition to continuing to distribute Topcon and Sokkia positioning products to the construction and survey markets in Spain and Portugal,
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
At midnight tonight, the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve will come into force in the British territorial waters of the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. But this new sanctuary, designated as a “no-take” zone where commercial fishing will be banned, serves to underline how catastrophically the international community has fallen short of a
