Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Spanish geographic data production is mainly oriented to fulfil the management needsof good governance. However, we can divide it into three levels of geographic dataproducers in Spain:● National Level: Government of Spain.The National Government is composed of 17 Ministries. Many of them are geographicinformation producers (Infrastructures and Transports (IGN-E (National MappingAgency), CNIG-E (National Centre of
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
EO apps seems to fall into 3 categories: satellite tracking, spatially enabled imaging and GPS. Do your own weather forecasting with met sat data on your phone.You can pretend to be satellite and get a satellite real-time view of your position.Get Accumaps DTM on your phone. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Nokia announced today that it has divested MetaCarta Inc. to Qbase Holdings LLC, a privately held US based company. Nokia will retain MetaCarta’s geographic intelligence technology, which it is incorporating in its local search and other services. MetaCarta serves primarily government as well as oil and gas customers. It was acquired by Nokia in April
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
SATELLINE-EASy is a new transceiver radio modem from SATEL. It provides compact and flexible solution for many different long-range applications like land surveying. SATELLINE-EASy is equipped with a wide 70 MHz tuning range; end-user can select the operation frequency within the whole range 403…473 MHz. Only one version in the stock and all the channels
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
T-Systems and the European Space Agency award the most promising business idea for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)The European Earth observation programme GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is driven by the requirements of sustainable development and the need to improve the monitoring of the European and global environment, especially in view
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Emissions from land use change, mainly tropical forest loss, contribute an estimated 17.4% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2007). The maintenance and enhancement of natural carbon stocks, e.g. through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD), is now considered a key climate change mitigation measure. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager® spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop® is pleased to announce that the upcoming release of Geographic Imager, version 3.2, will include the ability to dynamically apply terrain shading and colourization to digital elevation models within Adobe Photoshop. The Geographic Imager Terrain Shader functionality
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, will be exhibiting in booth #810 at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference, July 12-16 in San Diego, Calif. ESRI’s annual user conference brings together a global GIS community allowing ESRI customers, partners and competitors a chance
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The National Geographic Society has awarded two Alexander Graham Bell Medals to Dr. Roger Tomlinson and Jack Dangermond for their extraordinary achievement in geographic research. The medals were presented by National Geographic Society Chairman Gilbert M. Grosvenor this afternoon at the ESRI International User Conference. A press release is included below.National Geographic’s Bell Medal has
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
This year as part of the ESRI User Conference in San Diego we are holding a GeoDesign Track, a day long program of presentations encompassing the world of GeoDesign and GIS. The track is composed of four sessions. All sessions will happen in the Marriot Marina, room Salon F, with the exception of the lunch
