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
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
An award-winning new website is using realtime imagery from ESA’s Envisat satellite to provide a wealth of information on sea ice to aid safe passage through the treacherous waters of the Antarctic. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
NASA scientists improved watershed pollution monitoring models by incorporating satellite and ground-based observations of precipitation. The NASA data replaces weather station observations, and will allow states to monitor non-point pollution and improve water quality. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The connection delivers productivity improvements to architects and other specifiers by providing a quick and easy-to-use method within ArchiCAD for creating links between the information modeled in ArchiCAD and that modeled in NBS. Clause titles and references can be added with a single mouse-click; NBS guidance can be viewed in context to assist decision making;
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disclosed plans to expunge from the Abuja Geographic information Systems, (AGIS) functions of land Administration as well as land related departments. Following this, the agency would now be repositioned to serve as a service agency to land Administration. FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed disclosed this yesterday in Abuja
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
How are the methods and ideas of ecosystems services to be applied in practice? Many people see the idea of ecosystem services as some kind of new and all embracing panicea in relation to assessing, understanding and promoting projects. In reality ecosystem services methodology is very closely related to other economic assessment methods; this conference will explore this relationship in
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Far North First Nation communities will have the opportunity to apply for funding assistance to acquire skills and training related to community based land use planning. The Northern Training Partnership Fund will help Far North First Nations build land use planning capacity within their communities and be better prepared to benefit from future resource-related
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
CompassData, Inc. is excited to announce that a reseller agreement has been signed with Mississippi based Spatial Information Solutions. Under this new agreement, Spatial Information Solutions and their Accuracy Analyst™ customers will have full access to the CDI archive of over 14,000 Ground Control Points. Accuracy Analyst™ version 2.0 provides software-based map accuracy and content enhancement solutions. CompassData
