Friday, August 27th, 2010
At the GI Norden Workshop in Selfoss, Iceland in June, GI Norden’s president Þorbjörg Kr. Kjartansdottir announced that the GI Norden Award of honour for 2010 will be given to Kirsi Virrantaus, Professor in geoinformatics and cartography at Aalto University in Finland. Read More
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) will host an analyst and investor event on November 9, 2010 at its Dimensions User Conference. The conference will be held at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Learn More
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Deliverables were: the Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) Harmonization Checker tool, the State of the Art of Maritime Information Management Research, and the Requirements Specification for the Maritime Data Collection System. The BLAST project group partners successfully produced all three project deliverables on time and within budget in the first six months of BLAST. ENC Harmonization Checker
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Esri will present a live, online training seminar on Thursday, August 26, 2010, titled Running ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2. The seminar will air on www.esri.com/lts at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. Pacific daylight time. Amazon EC2 allows users to rent computing hardware resources and build scalable system architectures. Presenter Andrew Stauffer, ArcGIS Server development technical lead, will
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
The program will describe a practical approach for simulating effects of soil, weather, management, and pest factors on crop production. Instructors will explain how crop growth and development, water use, uptake of water and nutrients and carbon dynamics are simulated. It will cover procedures for collecting and managing crop, weather and soil datafor adapting models for applications. Participants will
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Optech Incorporated, the leading provider of advanced lidar survey instruments, announced today that Photo Science, based in Lexington, Kentucky, has purchased Optech’s next-generation Lynx Mobile Mapper. “We are pleased to have Photo Science augment their Optech lidar equipment,” said Brent Gelhar, Optech’s Vice President, Sales and Strategy. “Given their depth of experience with airborne data collection and
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
The new version of ArcGIS Explorer, a free geographic information system (GIS) viewer, opens more avenues for users to share geographic information. It also has many new interoperability updates that help integrate it with ArcGIS 10, including direct support for image services, improved support for ArcGIS 10 layer packages and geodatabases, and more ways to leverage ArcGIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Joining quikmaps and ScribbleMaps, DRAWaMAP lets you draw features in a Google Maps interface, and save them. Supported features include : Lines Markers Polygons Time polygons – you set a time and speed, and DRAWaMAP draws a polygon encompassing the walking distance around that point based on Google Maps data. Map Density Quadtree. Read More
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Nearing the end of its third month of continuous operation, the International Space Station’s ship-tracking experiment has experienced a marked increase in data quality. Now it operates along with a dedicated satellite carrying the same receiver. The Station’s Columbus laboratory is being used to track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships at sea. AIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Lockheed Martin today congratulated the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the 50-year anniversary of the first Corona photo reconnaissance satellite image from space, which ushered in new space-based capabilities for the nation. First developed as a joint U.S. Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency program to provide surveillance from space
