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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

YSI Castaway Demonstrations now available!

  OSIL are please to be able to offer demonstrations of the innovative new YSI CastAway, an effortless and powerful profiler that gives oceanographers, hydrologists, and surveyors the ability to instantaneously view profiles of temperature, salinity, and sound speed from any dock, bridge, or boat. This compact handheld CTD is the first of its kind.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

MAPPS Announces Fourth Annual ‘Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards’ Competition

MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the association of private geospatial firms, has announced that it will host its fourth annual Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition, recognizing the professionalism, value, integrity and achievement that member firms have demonstrated in their projects and technology developments over the previous year. Read More

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

NOAA Ship Fairweather Maps Aid Shipping Through Bering Straits

As Arctic ice recedes, countries are looking forward to faster, safer and more efficient sea routes across the top of the world. Responding to a request from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Maritime Pilots and the commercial shipping industry, NOAA sent one of its premier surveying vessels, NOAA Ship Fairweather, to detect navigational

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Call for Projects – Be Part of Imagina 2011!

Conferences: Architecture – Tuesday 1 February 2011 –  Come and contribute to discussions and share ideas about: your use of, and vision for, BIM in architecture and in construction engineering. Habitat, in its broadest sense, is the biggest challenge of the twenty-first century. How will our living areas and buildings, all too often considered simple, inanimate,

Monday, July 19th, 2010

AIR Worldwide Releases Next Generation U.S. Hurricane Model

Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) released the latest version of the AIR Hurricane Model for the United States. Version 12.0 includes extensive updates to the hazard and vulnerability components of the model that incorporate the latest science, data, and detailed claims information from recent storms to provide a more comprehensive realistic and detailed

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Forest Day Mexico – Registration Open

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests and the Government of Mexico, through the National Forestry Commission, are pleased to announce that registration for Forest Day 4 is now open. Forest day …is a global platform for anyone with an interest in forests and climate change to come together and exchange their views.… brings together outstanding thinkers, speakers

Monday, July 19th, 2010

T-Systems and ESA Want Your Green Business Ideas for Earth Observation Data and Satellite Navigation

T-Systems, under the patronage of the European Space Agency (ESA), award the GMES Masters prize for the best idea in line with the international innovation contest ‘European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010’. Companies and innovators anywhere in the world are welcome to participate. The two organisations are looking for business models for the European Earth observation

Monday, July 19th, 2010

India in Space: No Dream is Too Big for Us

With the sixteenth consecutively successful launch of India’s smaller rocket, the country’s space programme is poised to take a huge leap, by soon launching Indian astronauts in space on an Indian rocket launched from Indian soil, so it seems no dream is too big for India in space.

Monday, July 19th, 2010

sdi.suite INSPIRE fusionCenter – Provision of data for the European Spatial Data Infrastructure

Complete solution for the provision and publication of spatial data in the context of INSPIRE Conformity to the specifications of the INSPIRE implementing rules and the Technical Guidance Documents Harmonization of individual source databases to INSPIRE Annex Themes using FME-based Spatial ETL processes. Read More

Monday, July 19th, 2010

IDT Expands into Smart Grid

Semiconductor manufacturer Integrated Device Technology, Inc. has unveiled its first product for the smart grid industry: metering integrated circuits (ICs) for smart meters. The new IDT solutions improve the performance of smart meters.   Read More