Friday, June 11th, 2010
Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures, Second Edition, published by ESRI Press, details the European Union’s (EU) ongoing efforts to develop comprehensive, multinational spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). Designed as a reference for geographic information system (GIS) professionals and decision makers, the new edition promotes a general understanding of SDI concepts and provides examples of practical applications. Read
Friday, June 11th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. announced today that Chief Financial Officer Joseph (Joe) F. Greeves was awarded the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Public Company CFO of the Year title in a ceremony held June 9, 2010, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in McLean, Va. The Council’s CFO Awards recognize local chief financial officers and financial executives for outstanding achievement
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Trimble is holding its 2010 Surveying Student Paper Competition. The winning student author will have the opportunity to present their survey application paper at Trimble Dimensions 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The winner will receive a trip to the conference plus 3 nights’ accommodations to take part in Trimble’s internationally recognized conference with surveying professionals
Friday, June 11th, 2010
MAPPS President Jeff Lovin CP, PS, urged West Virginia geospatial practitioners to become more politically active, calling on the community “to be active, rather than passive”, in order for the United States “to realize the full potential of GIS”. In the keynote address, “On the Map: Building a Better America Through Increased Use of Geospatial
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Climate talks in Bonn healed some of the wounds left by the great disappointment of the Copenhagen Climate Summit last December. Following two weeks of talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), there is now renewed hope that the building blocks for a global climate deal can be adopted at the next
Friday, June 11th, 2010
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will explore further guidance for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands. This is a crucial step towards a decision by the UN Climate Summit in December in Mexico to allow countries to reduce emissions through rewetting drained wetlands. Conservative estimate show that globally anthropogenic CO2 emissions from drained
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) CanmetENERGY CO2 Research Facility (CanCO2), located in Ottawa, is an integrated and efficient pilot-scale CO2 capture facility. At the facility, pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and mercury are simultaneously removed, and CO2 is purified and compressed for transport, storage or use. The transportable, trailer-mounted, modular CanCO2 is
Friday, June 11th, 2010
The North American continent is constantly changing, and mounting environmental concerns like climate change, sustainability, and water resources make it more essential than ever to have an efficient and consistent approach to monitoring land cover and land cover change. That’s what the North American Land Change Monitoring System, or NALCMS, intends to provide. The system
Friday, June 11th, 2010
The International Geospatial Society (IGS), the new individual member arm of the GSDI Association, held its first presidential election recently by electronic ballot. We are very pleased and proud to announce that the first President of IGS is Mabel Alverez from Chubut Province, Argentina. She teaches at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco
Friday, June 11th, 2010
RMSI announced its participation at nextmonth’s ESRI International User Conference, scheduled from the 12th to 16thJuly, 2010 in San Diego, California, USA. In addition to being an exhibitor(Booth #2215), RMSI will also have a significant presence at the mapgallery showcase where it will display recently completed projects inUtilities, Land, and Cartography. Read More
