Monday, September 6th, 2010
Shaanxi Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SHASM), established in 1957, is directly under the leadership of State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China (SBSM). It is one of the largest and most important surveying and mapping production base in China. Moreover, SHASM also performs surveying and mapping administration within Shaanxi Province. It mainly undertakes
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Just in time for FOSS4G the GeoServer community is pleased to announce the release of 2.1 beta1. The first beta release of the long awaited 2.1 branch is now available for download. Anticipation for this release has been growing over the last few months due to the number of notable new features it brings. Let’s go
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Land and Land Resources refer to a delineable area of the earth’s terrestrial surface, encompassing all attributes of the biosphere immediately above or below this surface, including those of the near-surface, climate, the soil and terrain forms, the surface hydrology (including shallow lakes, rivers, marshes and swamps), the near-surface sedimentary layers and associated groundwater and
Monday, September 6th, 2010
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World. This product derives from the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) developed at the University of Maryland on NASA funds. GFIMS complements existing near real time information systems
Monday, September 6th, 2010
This manual is designed specifically for engineers, technicians and extension workers involved in agriculture, commercial farmers and contractors – all with some understanding of engineering and some experience of dams, irrigation and water supply – involved in the siting, design and construction of small earth dams in the drier parts of the African continent. It
Monday, September 6th, 2010
ICT UPDATE – People working in agribusiness use GIS software for precision farming, land management, business operations, and much more. GIS provides the means to spatially view variables that affect crop yields, erosion and drought risk, and business opportunities. Farmers are now able to access online agricultural data from government services such as the USDA’s
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Trimble introduced today its latest in-cab, touch screen display, the CFX-750™ display. The 8-inch, full-color display allows farmers to choose the specific guidance, steering and precision agriculture capabilities that best fit their farm’s particular needs. The farmer can upgrade the CFX-750 display as business needs change, including adding GLONASS capabilities, or adding section and rate
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Trimble announced today new and enhanced variable rate and boom control options to the versatile Field-IQ™ crop input control system. The expanded capabilities help farmers manage pest and nutrient applications by avoiding spray overlap with automatic or manual control of up to 48 sections—more sections controlled than any other variable rate system in the industry
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the new EZ-Remote™ joystick for improved operator efficiency and comfort in the tractor cab. The convenient accessory mounts quickly on virtually any tractor console. The announcement was made today at the Farm Progress show, the nation’s largest outdoor farm show. Paired as an accessory to the Trimble FmX® integrated display,
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
The Turkish land registration and cadastre works were carried out in analog format until 1985. After that, the cadastre works have been performed in a digital environment, while the land registriescontinued to be sustained in analog format. The subsequent developments in geographical informationsystem technologies and increasing user demands suggested the need to combine land registry
