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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Land Planning Skills Training Will Help Benefit Far North First Nations

Far North First Nation communities will have the opportunity to apply for funding assistance to acquire skills and training related to community based land use planning.   The Northern Training Partnership Fund will help Far North First Nations build land use planning capacity within their communities and be better prepared to benefit from future resource-related

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

CompassData, Inc and Spatial Information Solutions Form Partnership

CompassData, Inc. is excited to announce that a reseller agreement has been signed with Mississippi based Spatial Information Solutions. Under this new agreement, Spatial Information Solutions and their Accuracy Analyst™ customers will have full access to the CDI archive of over 14,000 Ground Control Points. Accuracy Analyst™ version 2.0 provides software-based map accuracy and content enhancement solutions. CompassData

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Update for Bentley Substation V8i Reduces Cost of Ownership, Leverages Power of ProjectWise

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today released the V8i (SELECTseries 3) version of Bentley Substation, the first intra-operable software for intelligent electrical and physical substation design. Bentley Substation empowers project teams to design substations 30 percent faster than they typically can

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Applied Precision Announces Geomagic’s Version 12

Version 12 includes the familiar ribbon-style interface pioneered by Microsoft in Office 2007.  This improves greatly on the appearance of the software – making it more intuitive to learn and use. Geomagic Studio and Qualify 12 are now released.  They will ship with both 32- and 64- bit editions on the CD and support English,

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Autodesk 3ds Max Turns 20

In the coming months, we will re-live the most memorable product developments and celebrate the hundreds of films, games, television shows, and architectural designs that you and the software have helped bring to life.  We will also look to the future and show how new technological innovations will foster even greater creativity, productivity, and inspiration

Monday, July 26th, 2010

NASA Tools for Remote Sensing in Ecology Research

Land remote sensing data can be effectively used by ecologists to understand ecosystem dynamics and to expand site measurements to larger scales. This workshop will focus on land processes, human dimensions, and other climate and environmental data available through the NASA data centers. Spatial analysis, subsetting, visualization, and online data ordering tools will be featured. Read More

Monday, July 26th, 2010

HUMBOLDT Open Day: Geospatial Data Harmonisation in Action

The HUMBOLDT Open Day will take place on 28th September 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP). The programme is organised by the consortium of the HUMBOLDT project in cooperation with the VESTA-GIS project. The four-year EU project HUMBOLDT contributes to the implementation of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) that

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop Reflects New Functionality in ArcGIS 10

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop from Esri Press is a fundamental geographic information system (GIS) workbook that introduces the underlying principles of GIS within the context of a structured ArcGIS lesson plan. Originally published in 2001, this best-selling workbook has now been updated to ensure ArcGIS 10 compatibility. Written by a team of technical and education

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Dutch Grant for Ecosystem Alliance

  IUCN, Wetlands International and Both Ends can still submit their detailed proposal in order to compete for the Dutch Co-financing System for development grant (MFS II) with their program “The Ecosystem Alliance: Empowering People and Nature ‘development.” The proposal concerned a five year programme in which the three organizations will jointly work on sustainable

Monday, July 26th, 2010

2010 Russian CAD Competition

Winners of the annual international competition “CAD in Construction 2010 or Rock at Sziget with ArchiCAD” were announced at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering.  First prize was awarded to Olga Khamatgalieva, a fourth-year student at Southern Federal University (Institute of Architecture and Art) in Rostov-on-Don. Read More