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Saturday, March 5th, 2011

New On-line Service – Satellite-based Control of Maritime Environment

ScanEx RDC completed testing of the new service for satellite-based control of the maritime situation in freezing seas and approach ways to main ports of Russia. Images from radar and optical satellites of different resolution (RADARSAT-1 and -2, ENVISAT-1, Terra, Aqua, SPOT 4 and SPOT 5) are used for a guaranteed all-weather monitoring of ships

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Register for the Esri Business GIS Summit

Registration is now open for the Esri Business GIS Summit to be held July 10–11, 2011, in San Diego, California. Attend this event to gain a better understanding of how location-based analysis can improve an organization’s overall performance, effectiveness, and efficiency. The summit will deliver thought leadership and technological insight on how geoenabling business processes

Friday, March 4th, 2011

ICIMOD Open House – Nepal

Each year, ICIMOD celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March to honour, highlight and promote the role of women in sustainable mountain development. This year, the Centre looks forward to celebrating two events.  During the first event, ‘Celebrating 100 Years of International Women’s Day’, ICIMOD is honoured to welcome Ms Anuradha Koirala, Chairperson of Maiti

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Online Survey as a Tool in Participatory Urban Governance – The Polish Experience

Sustainable urban governance needs to be participatory. Municipal decision-making processes have to be responsive, transparent and inclusive, they should also actively promote  citizen involvement. While the concept of participatory urban governance is increasingly popular in Western societies, in East-Central Europe it struggles to overcome the complex effects of system transformation. The Polish experience of participatory urban governance is still

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Intermap Technologies Q4 Loss Widens

Canada’s Intermap Technologies , a digital mapping company, reported a higher fourth-quarter loss, as revenue from its contract services segment plunged 84 percent. Intermap, which makes high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface, reported a loss of $63.8 million, or $1.13 a share, in the October-December quarter, compared with a loss of $7.6 million, or

Friday, March 4th, 2011

ScanEx R&D Center Offers Earth Remote Sensing Training

Training courses on the basics of Earth remote sensing data processing, including in-depth analysis and thematic processing of space images, will help you to quickly master the skills of space images application for the solution of applied tasks and in support of decision-making based on the information about the Earth from space. 

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Open Call – GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI-Symposium

The forthcoming GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI-Symposium ( “11. Sächsisches GIS-Forum” ) will be in year 2011 a real Cross-border event, to be held 23./24.05.2011 in “Bohemia&Saxonia Switzerland”,  the National Park Zentrum of Euroregion “Elbe/Labe” (EEL) on both sides of the border between Bad Schandau (SAX) and Decin (CZE). Read More

Friday, March 4th, 2011

SuperPad 3 Selected by Australia International Geoscience Pty Ltd

Cody Corporation, SuperGeo’s exclusive reseller in Australia and New Zealand, successfully promoted SuperPad 3 to International Geoscience Pty Ltd, a geoscience consultancy in the integration and interpretation of all geophysical data. Located in western Australia, International Geoscience offers services related to geophysical, geological and remote sensing data in local areas. After evaluating SuperPad 3, the firm

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Double Vision: NASA Earth Satellites Prep for Launch

In a rare event, two NASA launch vehicles currently rise above California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, as NASA’s two, new Earth monitoring satellites, Glory and Aquarius, ready for their respective launches. Read More

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

11 World Tour Appearing in Middle East

ERDAS will team with GeoSystems Group for Information Technology in Saudi Arabia to host a series of 11 World Tour events in the Middle East. The first event will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 7th in conjunction with the Saudi Arabian national science agency, the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology