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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Snowflake Chairman Honoured with MBE

Peter Woodsford, chairman at Snowflake Software, received an MBE for his services to the Geographic Information Industry in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list this weekend. The award is recognition of his contribution to the growing maturity and importance of the Geographic Information industry.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Call for Parametric Design Articles Extended Until 28 July 2010

Bentley Institute Press, the SmartGeometry Group, and the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) are extending their invitation to submit summaries of original articles for a new peer-reviewed publication about parametric design methods until 28 July 2010. The highly illustrated SmartGeometry: The Evolution of Computational Design and Practice will highlight innovative parametric design approaches that are at the intersection

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

URISA to Present Third GIS in Public Health Conference in Atlanta, June 27-30, 2011

URISA – The Association for GIS Professionals – is pleased to announce the Third URISA GIS in Public Health Conference, taking place June 27-30, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference program is developed through a Call for Presentations which will be issued shortly. URISA is pleased to present this specialty conference, to explore the many

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

ESRI Canada Delivers Effective GIS Solution for Managing Large-Scale Events

ESRI Canada today emphasized the value of leveraging geographic information systems (GIS) in enabling enterprise sharing of data to support collaborative and informed decision making that is essential to the successful management of large-scale events.  ESRI GIS played a key role in supporting public safety and emergency management operations during the 21st Olympic and Paralympic

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

ESRI Canada’s Community Maps Program Promotes Broad Sharing of Geographic Information

ESRI Canada today launched the ESRI Canada Community Maps Program, which facilitates the sharing of geographic information among governments and the public.  The program provides free public access to online national and community basemaps, promoting the development of geographic information system (GIS) applications and fostering innovation.  Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada contributed

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

AGI UK Congratulates Peter Woodsford

AGI is extremely pleased to see an important GI figure in both commercial and academic spheres being honoured with an MBE ‘for services to geographic information’. Professor Peter Peter Woodsford has been one of the major figures in the Geographic Information (GI) industry for more than 35 years. At the birth of the industry, he

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

SSTL – Gulf of Mexico oil Slick Captured by Satellite

SSTL’s satellite imaging subsidiary DMCii has used itsUK-DMC2 satellite to monitor the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.Satellite imagery is being supplied to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), and the US Geological Survey (USGS) following an activation of the International Charter : Space and Major Disasters. Read More

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Fugro-BKS Sign Up to Bluesky’s OldAerialPhotos Website

Fugro-BKS (formerly BKS Surveys) has signed up as a content provider to Bluesky’s online collection of historically important aerial photographs. Visitors to www.oldaerialphotos.com will now be able to search through thousands of additional unique aerial images from the 1950’s onwards including many complete UK county surveys.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Earl Dudley Inc. Signs Exclusive Landfill Grade Software Agreement with Carlson Software

Earl Dudley, Inc., established in 1938, is well known for supplying the construction and surveying industries with surveying equipment and supplies, GPS systems, machine control, laser scanners and software. Now, landfill operations in four southern states can look to Earl Dudley for state-of-the-art software, the Carlson Landfill Grade GPS Management System. Designed for use with

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

EU Sees Opportunities For Space Applications

The European Commission’s Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Applications Action Plan adopted today aims to place European industry in pole position to take full advantage of the global downstream market worth about €100 billion in particular by using its own satellite navigation programmes, Galileo and EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System). EGNOS, the European satellite-based