Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
The practice of managing mobile fleets has made great strides over the years. What started as a standard written log completed by drivers on a day to day basis, has morphed into an electronic monitoring system with GPS capabilities. These changes undoubtedly have simplified the data collection responsibilities of fleet managers. CompassCom Software is pleased
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that the call for submissions for its 2011 Student Design Competition is now open. University, college, community college, technical school, and high school students are invited to submit projects designed using Bentley software, along
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Please join us for this one hour webinar and learn about the powerful results you can achieve when combining DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 (WV2) data with ENVI. WV2 features a combination of the highest spatial resolution in satellite imagery commercially available, coupled with the highest spectral fidelity of any sub meter satellite. ENVI has the widest range of spectral tools of any
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Wind energy in Quebec got a big boost today thanks to a substantial investment by the Government of Canada. The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources, announced an investment of up to $65 million over 10 years for two wind farms in the Gaspé region. This investment, through the ecoENERGY for Renewable Power program,
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that the call for submissions for its 2011 Student Design Competition is now open. University, college, community college, technical school, and high school students are invited to submit projects designed using Bentley software, along with a short essay describing their work. Project submissions will be judged by a distinguished panel
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
ERDAS announces that it is attending the 15 Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference (ARSPC) in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, September 13-17, 2010. ERDAS is showcasing its remote sensing and enterprise server software, which includes IMAGINE Objective, LPS eATE and ERDAS APOLLO. Learn More
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
At the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Barcelona this past week, OpenGeo announced the availability of its training materials online, licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike With Attribution license. Introductory workshops on the PostGIS spatial database, OpenLayers web mapping library, and the GeoServer map and feature server are all available
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
ASD Inc. today announced the official launch of the FieldSpec HandHeld 2 portable spectroradiometer for remote sensing research, agriculture, environmental science and oceanography. The HandHeld 2 is the latest in compact remote sensing technology from ASD using cutting-edge, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to instantly and non-destructively make material measurements. Self-contained data collection with significant spectrum storage
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
The overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean does not consist of a single vertical circulation cell, as previously thought, but varies in strength between low and high latitudes, shows a study online this week in Nature Geoscience. The Atlantic overturning circulation transports heat from tropical waters northwards and has been projected to slow down as the
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
gvSIG Mini development team is proud to announce the release of the stable version gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0. This version offers, among other features, the ability of a direct download of maps from the phone to the storage card, for a further map displaying in offline mode, with no data connection. gvSIG Mini is