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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

GALILEO Satellite Named After School Girl

Adrianna Cyprus will be the name of an EU satellite, set to be sent to space in the coming years as part of the EU’s space navigation system, Galileo. The satellite was named after Adrianna Yiallourou, a 10-year-old...

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Geoinformatics 2012 – Hong Kong

The Geoinformatics conference series was initiated by the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences(CPGIS) in 1992. This annual international conference has provided a unique forum for exchanging ideas and knowledge on geo-information sciences between...

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

NT Spatial Excellence Awards – Nominate Now

The inaugural NT Spatial Excellence Awards will be presented at the NT Spatial 2012 conference dinner on the 22nd March at the Darwin Convention Centre. The goal of the awards is to recognise and promote the achievements and excellence of...

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Sprint Workshops to help up NZ GISP-AP numbers

I’ve been collaborating with the NZ SSSI representatives to pull together these workshops, initially in Wellington, which have been designed to help you sprint through preparing your GIS-AP certification portfolio. GISP-AP (GIS Professional - Asia-Pacific Certification) is software-independent...

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

CIFOR Looks for New Director General

Few international research centres are able to engage with a broad range of forest-related issues, stress the perspectives of poor countries and communities, combine policy and research, question conventional wisdom and constantly focus on how to have...

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

United Arab Emirates University Receive Professional GIS Training with SuperGIS Desktop

SuperGeo Technologies announced that the Department of Geography and Urban Planning of United Arab Emirates University selected SuperGIS Desktop Lab Kit and GIS Learning CD for supporting its GIS establishments. Evolving GeoSystems, SuperGeo’s distributor in UAE, further...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012

Information has been central to IUFRO’s brief since its foundation in the nineteenth century, and it has maintained a specialist research group dealing with information in various forms for well over a century. Following the latest re-organisation,...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Yandex Chooses NAVTEQ Data To Support Online Location Services

NAVTEQ has been selected to supply map data to Yandex, Russia’s premier internet company. The current agreement gives Yandex access to NAVTEQ global map data for use on any Yandex domains around the world with highly detailed NAVTEQ...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Compression-Based Tools for Navigation with an Image Database

We present tools that can be used within a larger system referred to as a passive assistant. The system receives information from a mobile device, as well as information from an image database such as Google Street View, and...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Vietnam – 30 Major Transport Projects By Year End

The Transport Ministry is targeting the completion of more than 30 major projects this year to make a milestone in transport infrastructure development. Last year, hundreds of projects were delayed due to the Government's public investment cutting...