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Monday, May 17th, 2010

Intergraph Chairman and CEO Halsey Wise Named Finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year

Intergraph Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Halsey Wise has been named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 Alabama/ Georgia/Tennessee award program. Wise was among 20 outstanding entrepreneurs from the region selected by an independent judging panel made up of past winners as well as business and community leaders.

Friday, May 14th, 2010

NOAA’s Modernized Positioning System Key to Improved Mapping, Emergency and Land Planning

NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey – the official U.S. government source for determining precise latitude, longitude and elevation – is undergoing a modernization effort that takes into account advances in GPS and other technologies. The effort is important to all activities requiring accurate positioning information including levee construction projects, the design of evacuation routes in hurricane-prone

Friday, May 14th, 2010

INTERGEO East 2010 Forging Links in Istanbul

When INTERGEO East opens its doors on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 in Istanbul, it will make a clear geographical statement. It will be the first time that the two-day trade fair and three-day conference for land management, geoinformation, the building industry and the environment has been held in the Turkish metropolis, which is the only

Friday, May 14th, 2010

European Earthquake Data Portal is Now Available

Thanks to a unique joint initiative by observatories, research institutes in and around Europe a broad set of seismological data is becoming available. Within NERIES, the seismic portal has been developed as a single point of access to diverse, distributed European datasets, and is now, after an experimental phase, available for general use at www.seismicportal.eu The

Friday, May 14th, 2010

gvSIG Workshop at FOSS4G

From 6th to 9th September, the FOSS4G will be held in Barcelona . In this event there will be a 3 hours gvSIG Workshop, (6th afternoon). All the information about the workshop is available on . There will also be a gvSIG Mobile and gvSIG Mini tutorial . Registration to the workshop as well as

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Small City Hits Big Homerun with GIS & Asset Management Software

The city of West Point, UT has recently expanded their GIS and work management software, reducing costs and increasing return on investment.   As one of the fastest growing cities in Utah, West Point adopted Elements Management Software by novotX in late 2006 to integrate their developing GIS with a work management package.  Top priorities

Friday, May 14th, 2010

FOREST EUROPE – Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe

Participants will learn about the contributions of the European forest policy process and what it is doing to achieve the 2010 Biodiversity targets. Other important aspects, such as the existing and potential role of sustainable forest management to meet the 2010 target and post-2010 strategy will be highlighted and discussed.

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Call – IEEE GRSS and ISPRS Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

JURSE 2011 intends to be a unique forum for urban remote sensing with respect to the Information Technology and Geoscience community. A continuously increasing amount of multiple sensory data offers opportunities to address new questions and solve existing problems more effectively in urban remote sensing. To exploit the full potential these diverse data sources offer,

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Bentley Announces Availability of FAA-Compliant Data Model for Bentley Map V8i

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the immediate availability of a Bentley Map V8i data model for airport information modeling that is compliant with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mapping guidelines. The new data model includes a comprehensive database schema, feature

Friday, May 14th, 2010

SierraSoft Introduces Topko CE Version 5.0 for Cadastral and Topographic Survey

SierraSoft has released Topko CE 5.0, software for field data collection that supports all the features and capabilities of the Ashtech ProMark 500 GNSS receiver. In a clear and foolproof way, Topko CE 5.0 manages the complete range of ProMark 500 capabilities, including receiver configuration, all surveying procedures, even the most complicated, such as localizations