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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Trimble Empowers Gulf Region to Map the Oil Spill with New Mobile App

Trimble announced today the launch of Map the Spill, a mobile app and Website that empowers Gulf Coast residents and the public to report on the oil spill. Map the Spill allows those directly and indirectly impacted by the spill to capture and chronicle what they see happening to the land, sea and wildlife in

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

GSDI Small Grants Program Recipients

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association together with the manpower and financial support of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is dedicated to international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national, and international spatial data infrastructure developments that would allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Slam Dunk – Water System Saves Big Money with ‘Elements’ GIS

Bountiful Irrigation has recently expanded their GIS-based asset management software to include real-time mobile access and dynamic web-based data forms.   Serving over 12,000 households, Bountiful Irrigation has been using Elements Management Software as their GIS-based work and asset management solution since the product was initially released in 2006.   Until recently, Bountiful has used the

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

SuperGeo Announces Exclusive Partnership with Cody Corporation in Oceania

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today announces its new partnership in Oceania, where Cody Corporation will distribute SuperGIS series software exclusively in Australia and New Zealand. Since 1981, Cody Corporation has established a strong distributing network for the Surveying and GIS/GPS market, by reselling rugged handheld computers, total

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

ArcGIS 10 Transforms the Way People Use GIS

ArcGIS 10, which is now available from Esri, is transforming the way people use geographic information system (GIS) technology. With this release, users will be more productive with their work and will be able to take advantage of GIS everywhere: via individual local desktops, across desktops and browsers leveraging central servers, and in the cloud. Learn

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Alberta Designates Grizzly Bears a Threatened Species

An independent scientist prepared an updated status report that incorporates a broad range of population and habitat information. This information included Alberta government-sponsored DNA population surveys and satellite mapping of core and secondary habitat. The Endangered Species Conservation Committee recommended the designation based on criteria of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

ArchiCAD 14 Austrian Version Released

The Austrian version is the third of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule, and follows the release of the International and German versions. All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010. The Austrian version is the third of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

“Complete Mobility” – Comprehensive Services Link Rail with Other Means of Transportation

The slogan at this year’s InnoTrans is “The future of mobility” and this future is posing great challenges to operators and infrastructure planners. For climate change, growing urbanization, population growth in the emerging markets, and globalization will lead in future to increasing demands mobility and transportation all over the world. With its “Complete Mobility” concept,

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

MetOp-B is ESA Test Centre’s Latest Task

The Payload Module of the giant MetOp-B weather satellite has been lowered into ESA’s largest vacuum chamber. ESTEC Test Centre engineers will be subjecting it to prolonged space conditions – their latest assignment in a busy year. Read More

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

GIS Assesses Impacts of Marcellus Shale Drilling

Today, one of the most diverse meetings ever assembled to address Marcellus Shale gas extraction concerns is being convened by the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities (CHEC) of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health and the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. The goals of this meeting are to openly discuss the impacts