Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Emissions from land use change, mainly tropical forest loss, contribute an estimated 17.4% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2007). The maintenance and enhancement of natural carbon stocks, e.g. through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD), is now considered a key climate change mitigation measure. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager® spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop® is pleased to announce that the upcoming release of Geographic Imager, version 3.2, will include the ability to dynamically apply terrain shading and colourization to digital elevation models within Adobe Photoshop. The Geographic Imager Terrain Shader functionality
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, will be exhibiting in booth #810 at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference, July 12-16 in San Diego, Calif. ESRI’s annual user conference brings together a global GIS community allowing ESRI customers, partners and competitors a chance
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The National Geographic Society has awarded two Alexander Graham Bell Medals to Dr. Roger Tomlinson and Jack Dangermond for their extraordinary achievement in geographic research. The medals were presented by National Geographic Society Chairman Gilbert M. Grosvenor this afternoon at the ESRI International User Conference. A press release is included below.National Geographic’s Bell Medal has
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
This year as part of the ESRI User Conference in San Diego we are holding a GeoDesign Track, a day long program of presentations encompassing the world of GeoDesign and GIS. The track is composed of four sessions. All sessions will happen in the Marriot Marina, room Salon F, with the exception of the lunch
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The International Conference on GeoInformatics for Spatial-Infrastructure Development in Earth & Allied Sciences (GIS-IDEAS) is scheduled to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, 9-11 December 2010. GIS-IDEAS 2010 is being organized by JVGC and Hanoi University of Mining and Geology (HUMG). GIS-IDEAS 2010 is the fifth in the series of very successful Conferences, with first and second been held
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
British Gas today unveiled version 2 of its iPhone meter reading application, which makes it even easier for customers to keep track of their energy bills, monitor their energy use over time and submit meter readings to avoid estimated bills. Almost 100,000 customers have downloaded the App since November when British Gas became the first
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
In 2010 IDTechEx find that the value of the entire RFID market will be $5.63 billion, up from $5.03 billion in 2009. This includes tags, readers and software/services for RFID cards, labels, fobs and all other form factors. In total, 2.31 billion tags will be sold this year, up from 1.98 billion in 2009. Most
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Trimble introduced today a new version of its Trimble® Field Inspector solution for utility infrastructure and smart grid asset maintenance and inspection. The solution is comprised of the Trimble Field Inspector software for handheld computers and Trimble Field Inspector Desktop software. Scalable and easy to deploy, the solution leverages Trimble Global Positioning System (GPS) and
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Esri and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) announce the formation of a strategic alliance to strengthen national geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) capabilities. The agreement was signed in June by U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett, NGA director, and Jack Dangermond, Esri president. The alliance will provide a framework to advance the strategic goals and objectives
