Monday, July 26th, 2010
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
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 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
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
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
Monday, July 26th, 2010
ESRI Muscat the official ESRI distributors in Oman and official distributors of ITT Visual Information Solution’s ENVI range of software products in the Middle East (excluding Saudi Arabia and Jordan) has partnered with Global Scan Technologies (GST) of Dubai to market ENVI products in the UAE. ENVI is a world leading satellite image processing software
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Ordnance Survey is Great Britain’s national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and individuals. National mapping agency publishes Annual Report and Accounts for 2009-10. Read More
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Sensor technology developed to remotely characterize the path, dimensions and morphology of caves and other underground conduits and cavities has received a 2010 R&D 100 Award. R&D Magazine selected Southwest Research Institute’s remote neutrally buoyant sensors as one of the 100 most significant technological achievements of the past year. Read More
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
China attracted more asset financing in clean-energy technology in the second quarter than Europe and the U.S. combined, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. A clever piece of legislation created the renewable energy bonanza. Read More
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
This week we learned how to import a .txt file of raw LiDAR point data into ArcMap, convert the data into a raster image in ArcMap and transfer that image back into ERDAS. This wasn’t so hard; the difficult parts for me in the challenge part of the lab were – Read More
