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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

World Universities Can Now Work with RADARSAT-1 Data at Unprecedented Prices

World university community since 2009 can outfit universities with the technologies of middle and high resolution remote sensing data reception (EROS A, IRS-1D, SPOT 4). In June 2010 the universities obtained rights to operate with RADARSAT-1 radar data as well. An agreement was reached between the Canadian MDA (Operator of RADARSAT-1 satellite) and the Russian ScanEx Research & Development

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

NWC Report on Scale of Intercepted Water Use

SHAPING AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE – The National Water Commission recently released Australia’s first ever nation-wide baseline assessment of water interception activities, calling for all Australian governments to take action on this critical issue. The Surface and/or groundwater interception activities: initial estimates report shows that the total volume of water unaccounted for as a result of land

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Program on Forests (PROFOR)

The Program on Forests (PROFOR) is dedicated to supporting timely, in-depth forests policy analysis, research and processes that support the following goals: improving people’s livelihoods; enhancing forest governance and law enforcement; financing sustainable forest management; and coordinating forest policy with other sectors. Its June newsletter highlights a number of exciting learning and capacity building events,

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Volcanic Uplift – Kenyan Section of the Great Rift Valley

This Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar interferogram over the Kenyan section of the Great Rift Valley shows small surface displacements that are not visible to the naked eye of the Longonot (front right). In the background is Suswa volcano, which was not deforming at this time. A group of scientists employed the technique known as

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Topcon Machine Control Trade-In Program

Get up to $29,000 for your trade in of old competitive machine control systems and get the latest and greatest from Topcon. This offer cannot be combined with any other promotion. A limited time opportunity!! This offer will expire on August 27, 2010. Read More

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Spaletta Joins Topcon Precision Agriculture as Regional Manager

Jason Spaletta of Lodi, Calif., has been named western regional sales manager for Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA). In his new role, Spaletta will be in charge of sales in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Before joining Topcon, Spaletta had been territory sales manager for AutoFarm, a manufacturer of machine control technology in the

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

GeoMax introduces new Total Stations Zoom30 and Zoom20

GeoMax announce the release of the all new GeoMax Zoom30 and Zoom20 total station series. With these two new series GeoMax now offers an even wider range of total stations for the surveying, construction and mapping industry. Designed in Switzerland and manufactured in our facilities the GeoMax Zoom30 and Zoom20 series “works when you do”.

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

EROS A/B Imagery Coverage of Over 150 Russian Towns Updated

EROS A/B satellites delivered images of over 150 Russian towns in the first half of 2010. The images were taken first of all of regional centers and small settlements. The archive of ScanEx RDC operating with EROS A/B in direct reception mode is replenished with cloud-free detailed images of Adler, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Belgorod, Biysk, Volgograd,

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Blue Marble Announces User Group Meeting at ESRI UC Open to all Attendees

Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce they will be holding the annual Blue Marble User Group meeting, Wednesday July 14th at the ESRI International Users’ Conference in San Diego.  Join Blue Marble for a complimentary lunch and demonstration of the newest release of the Blue Marble Desktop version 2.2, featuring support for raster

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

IGARSS Community Remote Sensing (CRS)

The IGARSS conference is less than a month away.  The plenary will focus on the community remote sensing (CRS) theme, 149 of the technical papers have self-identified as being CRS-related, and theeducation and outreach activities have been designed to highlight the theme.   As mentioned in a prior email, the keynote will be given by two leaders of the