Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce a functional enhancement within the Geographic Calculator v7.5, the addition of an enhanced area calculation tool. Whether it is coordinate, vector, or raster data types, the Blue Marble Desktop allows you to address your data conversion challenges in the same application interface with powerful conversion and transformation
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
EFI’s Winter and Summer School 2011: Making values work – exploring multiple perspectives in understanding the valuation of forest ecosystems will be organized in late March 2011 in Freiburg, Germany and in late September 2011 in Croatia.
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) is scheduled for July 5-8, 2011, at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Audience. GI_Forum focuses on an international audience that shares an interest in GIScience and Technology. This Call for Papers aims at researchers who design, develop and apply advanced methods and techniques of Geoinformatics to a broad range of application
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Envista Corporation announced it has secured $4.1M from seven investors toward a $7.6 million equity-based funding round. The company’s initial investors included New England-based Borealis Ventures (Hanover, NH), Egan-Managed Capital (Boston, MA), and Point Judith Capital (Providence, RI). Envista will leverage the capital to fund business expansion and product development to meet global demands to
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
DigitalGlobe announced it has finalized the judging panel for its inaugural 8-Band Research Challenge. The judges, respected scientists from around the world, will be responsible for reviewing final submissions and selecting the 15 papers that best exemplify sound science and innovative applications of 8-band, high-resolution imagery. Winners will be announced on December 16 and invited
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
UC Santa Barbara Professor Michael Goodchild, a global pioneer in geographic information science, is the first scholar appointed to the Jack and Laura Dangermond Professorship in geography. The Dangermonds established the endowed chair with a major philanthropic gift to advance the development of geographic information system technology in an academic environment. They are co-founders of Environmental
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
WhiteStar Corp has named LandWorks as a reseller of the WhiteStar Exploration Cube™ product line. A developer of land asset management software for the oil and gas, pipeline and utility industries, LandWorks will bundle the WhiteStar map products with its popular LandWorks GIS software.
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The development of EFI Regional Offices continues. The North European Regional Office – EFINORD was the latest office to be inaugurated on 17 November 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark. EFINORD is headed by Mr. Mika Mustonen and the two thematic issues facing EFINORD will be biomass production and ecosystem services, with cross-cutting themes of climate change,
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Esri has released a mobile geographic information system (GIS) API for the new Microsoft Windows Phone platform. The ArcGIS API for Windows Phone can be used to create interactive applications that combine mapping resources, such as maps, locators, and geoprocessing models, with Windows Phone technologies and frameworks, such as the application bar, controls, and location. The
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
AOL Inc. announced Thursday that its subsidiary MapQuest is launching in the Netherlands and Switzerland, built on open technology and OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. Read More
