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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

OSGIS 2010

The early bird registrations for the Second Open Source GIS UK (OSGIS) conference  at University of Nottingham ends on 4th June 2010.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

NAVTEQ Map To Power Mobile Devices’ Telematics Platforms and Connected PNDs

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, has announced that Mobile Devices has chosen to utilize NAVTEQ data globally in its line of dedicated and standardized platforms for fleet management and telematics applications.  Mobile Devices is using NAVTEQ maps for Europe,

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

NASA Takes to the Air With New ‘Earth Venture’ Research Projects

Hurricanes, air quality and Arctic ecosystems are among the research areas to be investigated during the next five years by new NASA airborne science missions announced today. The five competitively-selected proposals, including one from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are the first investigations in the new Venture-class series of low-to-moderate-cost projects established last year.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Australia – Potential Field Methods Prove Effective for Continental Margin Studies

Remote geophysical data acquisition tools, such as gravity and magnetic surveys, have proved very successful in mapping the underlying geology of the Australian continent. Similarly, these geophysical methods can also be applied in Australia’s offshore areas for mapping the continental margin using marine vessels (surface and submarine) and aircraft. The use of airborne magnetic surveys

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Leica FPES v10.1 Boosts Productivity and Efficiency in Flight Planning

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce a new version of its powerful Leica Flight Planning & Evaluation Software (FPES). Leica FPES v10.1 allows a fast and automatic load of DTM data with sophisticated computation capabilities. Beside many other enhancements Leica FPES v10.1 supports Windows OS including Windows 7, and a flexible data import and export

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

BISE and Baseline: New Tools to Combat Biodiversity Loss in Europe

At the opening session of the Green Week conference in Brussels, the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) unveiled two new tools to combat biodiversity loss: BISE (the Biodiversity Information System for Europe) and ‘Biodiversity baseline’. BISE is a web portal centralising information about European biodiversity in a single location. The baseline offers

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Depiction 101 Webinar, “Finding and Creating Data”

One of the challenges in working with Depiction is finding data and formatting data you have to use in your files. This session will help users overcome that challenge. Read More

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

3D Laser Mapping Appoints Francois Stroh as Mining Manager

3D Laser Mapping, the international developer of laser mapping solutions,  has appointed Francois Stroh to the position of Global Mining Product Manager.  Stroh, an engineering surveyor with more than ten years experience of laser  scanning sales, installation, training and support, will have responsibility for  3D Laser Mapping’s global mining division. Stroh will be based in

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

RapidEye Enters Distributor Agreement With Geoserve In The Netherlands

RapidEye announced today that Geoserve BV has signed a contractual agreement with RapidEye to be its sole data distributor in the Netherlands. Currently, RapidEye is working on completing its worldwide network of distributors in order to facilitate easy access to RapidEye products in their customers’ own language and region. Learn  More

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Roger Crystal Assumes Role as ASPRS Foundation President

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Foundation recently appointed Roger Crystal, the former Foundation Vice President, to assume the role of Foundation President in response to Thomas Lillesand’s desire to rotate out of that position after six years of service.  Dr. Lillesand will continue serving the Foundation as a Trustee.   Dr. Cliff