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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

ESA’s SMOS Water Mission Celebrates First Year in Orbit

ESA – A year ago today, ESA’s SMOS satellite was launched to improve our knowledge of the water cycle. We are now not only closer to understanding more about Earth, but the novel technology employed by SMOS is clearly demonstrating a new way of monitoring Earth from space. Read More

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Opportunity for Trainees, European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON)

ESPON is a network providing European observation and evidence on territorial development and cohesion. The activities are implemented as a programme under the Structural Funds 2007-2013 and the objective of European territorial cooperation. The mission is to enhance European knowledge, data and indicators on territorial structures, trends, perspectives and impacts of sector policies which can meet policy demand related to

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

25% Discount Extended on IDRISI Taiga

We’re extending our 25% discount promotion until November 15th! This gives you two more weeks to save hundreds on your IDRISI Taiga software! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity. Read More

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

NOAA Launches Education Website With New Look and Content

To better connect educators and students who are interested in NOAA’s education and science resources, NOAA has just completed a major update of the agency’s primary education resource portal, http://www.education.noaa.gov. This website serves as a portal to lesson plans, educational multi-media, data sources, career profiles, and other education content from across the agency.

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

ERDAS Announces New 2011 Software Release

ERDAS announces its upcoming 2011 Software Release, with new versions of ERDAS IMAGINE, LPS, ERDAS Extensions for ArcGIS 10, ERDAS APOLLO and other leading desktop and server products. The ERDAS 2011 Software Release includes new imagery analysis workflows, the ability to localize ERDAS products for a global audience, integrated support for Microsoft Bing Maps base

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on Sensor Observation Service Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Standard Version 2.0. The SOS candidate interface standard is designed to provide access to sensor observations, sensor descriptions, anddigital representations of observed features in an interoperable and standardized way. Further, the SOS 2.0 candidate standard provides means to insert

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

EFTAS and RapidEye Extend their Collaboration in Distributing Satellite Imagery

RapidEye announced today that it has signed an extension of the data supply agreement with the geo-informatics company EFTAS of Münster, Germany, which began in 2008. The agreement allows both companies to use RapidEye data as a base for complex analysis when the timeliness of the data offers new business opportunities. With its many years

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) Created to Serve U.S. Federal and Classified Business

Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph®, has been officially established to serve the company’s U.S. Federal customer base. This new, independent subsidiary will contain all of Intergraph’s federal agency and Intelligence community classified businesses:  Defense & Intelligence; Federal Solutions and Intergraph Services Corp. As a result of the Oct. 28, 2010

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Capacity Building Workshop on Carbon Governance in Asia: Bridging Scales and Disciplines

Pathways of regional development are sequences of interrelated changes in social, economic, and governance systems. They vary from place to place and over time, in ways that are likely to have different net consequences for carbon stocks and fluxes, which in turn may constrain or in other ways feed back upon development processes. Thus, the

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Ecosystem Marketplace’s Forest Carbon News Summary

Last Friday in Nagoya, Japan, policymakers convened from around the world concluded the tenth Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Although biodiversity conservation has been widely-touted as a REDD “co-benefit,” efforts to link up aid from developed countries under the biodiversity convention and a REDD mechanism under the