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Monday, September 13th, 2010

Bell Helicopter Certifies Industry Leading Wide Area Augmentation System Capability

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company is pleased to announce the introduction of a best in class certification of precision Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) enabled glide path capability on the Bell 429. Th Bell 429 is the only helicopter available in the market with this technology certified for 9 degree localizer precision

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Intermap Technologies’ Chief Financial Officer Resigns

Intermap Technologies Corporation today announced that Brian Musfeldt has announced his resignation from the positions of chief financial officer and vice president. The Company will announce details on Mr. Musfeldt’s replacement in due course. Through this change, Mr. Musfeldt will provide support to ensure a smooth transition for the Company moving forward, including the completion

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona

This year I was enough lucky to have the possibility to attend at the FOSS4G World conference in Barcelona (thanks to my company for having send me there!) – that has been run just this week, as many of you may already know. I just came back home yesterday night and until my impression are

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

UK Architecture, Building and Planning Courses

‘Study architecture in the UK and you will be among some of the most forward-looking architects in the world. Your UK architecture course will expose you to a range of innovative new designs and approaches for building and urban planning. You can also look forward to great international career prospects, as UK architectural training is

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Federal Data Standards For Wetlands

FWS – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) uses data standards to increase the quality and compatibility of its data. This approach increases the opportunity to share data and reduce incidents of redundant data development. Read More

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Geospatial Working Group

Geospatial data is a much broader concept than is often realised. The commercial exploitation of geospatial resources and techniques is well known and has had a profound impact. Government’s awareness of the importance and potential of geospatial data is reflected the UK’s Location Strategy and the EU’s INSPIRE Directive. Similarly, geospatial resources are basic to research, and to

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

European Commission – Call for GNSS Experts

EUROGEOGRAPHICS – The European Commission has the intention to set up a consultative group of GNSS (Global Satellite Navigation System) experts called the Mission Evolution Advisory Group (MEAG). The primary task of this group of experts is to provide recommendations on potential evolutions of the mission objectives and the service definitions for the European satellite navigation programmes Galileo and

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

Google Earth Gets Its Very Own Website

The one-stop Earth shop does indeed contain a raft of tutorials, info on the mobile version(for Nexus One, Droid, etc, iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad), and showcases some of the best content, although the latter is inexplicably lacking a tour of the world’s black helicopter hotspots. Read More

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

Earth from Space: Sahara Sand

Envisat captures sand and dust from the Sahara Desert blowing west across Mauritania (top), Senegal (middle) and Guinea Bissau (bottom) and over the North Atlantic Ocean before turning in a northerly direction just above the Cape Verde islands. Read More

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

ArcGIS Server 10 Geoportal Extension Speeds Data Discovery

Esri expands the power of geoportals with the release of the ArcGIS Server 10 Geoportal extension. The extension allows organizations to quickly set up Web sites, called geoportals that help them manage and share their geospatial information externally with the public or internally with employees. Geoportals manage resources by registering (storing and cataloging) the resources’ metadata. At