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Friday, September 11th, 2009

Job: Sustainability Assessment Officer, Wiltshire Council

This is an exciting new post where you’ll have the opportunity to ensure that sustainability is at the heart of Wiltshire Council’s spatial planning processes. Working in a small, friendly team, you’ll ensure that the Council’s Local Development Documents and associated policies meet necessary environmental, social and economic sustainability criteria, through Strategic Environmental Assessment and

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Autodesk Offers Wide Variety of Resources and Support for Education Community

The beginning of the new academic year is here and Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, is expanding its support for students and educators as they return to campus. Autodesk has announced that it is increasing access to its 2010 offerings, valuable curricula and additional resources for

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

FME Server Proves to Solve Spatial Data Access Challenges

Safe Software, the leaders in spatial ETL announced today that FME Server is being implemented by organizations around the world to solve common data access challenges. In particular, FME Server’s on-the-fly transformation capabilities have proven invaluable in removing format and data model barriers. This has enabled organizations to more easily centralize data, share up-to-date data

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

RapidEye Joins ESRI’s Business Partner Program

RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of Earth observation satellites, announced today that they have joined the ESRI® Business Partner Program.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

GeoMentoring Project Maps Gunpowder Point in San Diego during ESRI’s EdUC

During ESRI’s recent series of integrated user conferences held in San Diego, California, the National 4-H GIS Leadership Team and Equipo GIS, an international youth group, were invited by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to conduct geographic information system (GIS)-based service projects on two units of the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Solara Launches Global, 2-Way Handheld Interactive Satellite Text Messenger

Solara Remote Data Delivery Incorporated announced today the release of the Field Tracker 2100, an interactive text messenger with automatic GPS tracking and 2-way communications anywhere on earth. The Solara Field Tracker 2100 operates over the Iridium satellite network, making it the only handheld device with on-screen interactive text messaging and GPS tracking with truly

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Matrox Introduces New DisplayPort Solutions

Graphics Cards – Choose any combination of pivoted, independent or stretched display configurations with these remarkable graphics cards which offer 1GB of memory. Combine two M9148 cards in a single system to drive up to eight DisplayPort or DVI monitors  

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

RapidEye Invites You to ‘Sample the World’

RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of Earth observation satellites, announced today that they have released a selection of sixteen demonstration products generated by the RapidEye system. The samples of the RapidEye Standard Image Products show a variety of areas around the world including agricultural, forestry and urban areas.

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

EEA Invites Submissions of Evidence on Global Trends

Understanding the state of Europe’s environment and its future prospects is impossible without an appreciation of the situation and trends outside the continent. Many environmental issues are inherently transboundary and are influenced by numerous other international forces, including social, technological, economic and political interaction. At the same time, many global socio-economic drivers operate over decades,

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Satellite Sensor Maps Global Atmospheric Ammonia Emissions

Using radiation measurements obtained by the MetOp satellite, scientists have produced the first complete map of global ammonia emissions – a pollutant of key environmental concern. The map, based on observations throughout 2008, shows inaccuracies in current ammonia inventories and identifies new hotspots. Read More