Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is taking advantage of Esri’s enterprise license agreement (ELA) program to supply more departments and government workers with geographic information system (GIS) software. As a result, many city departments are now building and sharing their data, applications, and services. The new GIS applications and data help the city work more effectively
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Ron Beck, a scientist for the U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program, will discuss the ways in which satellite observations are documenting dramatic changes in Earth’s surface features in a public lecture on Thursday, July 29. From detecting shifting patterns of land use and the harvesting of natural resources to examining the effects of
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
DigitalGlobe today announced the DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge, a contest designed to encourage researchers to investigate how 8-band, high-resolution imagery can enhance image analysis and classification research. The 8-band data is unique in the marketplace to DigitalGlobe, as a result of the newest commercial satellite WorldView-2 launched in October of 2009. The call for proposals
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Thousands of hectares of fragile mountainous forest in north-eastern Tanzania have been preserved through a recently completed seven-year biodiversity project managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Eastern Arc Mountains project, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was concluded last month after an independent evaluation reported that at least 10,000 hectares of
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Paperless Trail Inc., a leading Philippines based digital mapping & GIS applications developer, recently unveiled Business Mapper a tool that helps businesses visualize location of their customers, saturation, supply chain and other location sensitive operations or activities. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Thematic Cartography and Geographic Information Systems team is one of the users of the recently inaugurated Lucio Lascaray building at the new research centre on the Araba campus of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). It draws up all kinds of maps, from geological ones to those of vegetation and even archaeological maps, the
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The book will be focused on socio-economical aspects of spatial analysis and modelling and will therefore represent a meeting point for those researchers and scholars that in recent times are interested by the new challenges presented by the availability of spatial data at all scales and the need for implementing – or re-implementing –
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map of the height of the world’s forests by combining data from three NASA satellites. The map will help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world’s forests store and how fast that carbon cycles through ecosystems and back into the atmosphere. Maps of local and regional
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced that its Express Server™ 6.1 software has received a Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command. Express Server’s submission for certification was facilitated by Spatial Engineering, a leading geospatial engineering firm
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) will develop conforming documentation for key OGC standards and geospatial open source application descriptions. Both sets of documentation will be available online and on the OSGeo-Live DVD, to be released at the international conference for Free and Open Source Software, FOSS4G, in September
