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Monday, August 8th, 2011

Consultations on Comprehensive City Land Use Plan Set

A series of public consultations on the Draft Comprehensive City Land Use Plan (CLUP) targeting the various sectors here has been scheduled to ensure maximum participation of the stakeholders in the finalization of the crucial plan. As this...

Monday, August 8th, 2011

2011-2012 GSDI Small Grants Program Announcement

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national, and international spatial data infrastructure developments that would allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues...

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Australia’s R-SPEC V2.1 Common Specifications

The A-SPEC group was formed to streamline the processes undertaken to display new assets within each member’s GIS and Asset Management Systems.A common specification for the supply of digital data was identified as a major opportunity for the consortia members to...

Friday, August 5th, 2011

USGS Projects in Afghanistan

With decades of experience in developing country-scale geographic information system (GIS) databases and in performing major geologic mapping and resource assessment programs within the Middle East, Eurasia, Asia and South America, the USGS is working to develop...

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Esri to Exhibit CityEngine at SIGGRAPH 2011

Esri will exhibit and teach a course about CityEngine, its software for 3D modeling and urban planning, at the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference in Vancouver, Canada, August 7–11. The SIGGRAPH conference is one of the world's...

Friday, August 5th, 2011

XXII ISPRS Congress in Melbourne 2012

Please download the 2nd Announcement and call for Abstracts for the ISPRS Melbourne Congress. Could you please circulate this widely amongst colleagues and members of your organisations The Congress will run from 25th August to 1st September...

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Australian Geophysical Survey Boundary Polygons Available

A file containing survey boundary outlines in MapInfo TAB format for surveys in WA (WAEIS Phase 2 magnetic and radiometric; Albany-Fraser, Sandstone and South Gascoyne Gravity), SA (Frome), NT (West Arunta Gravity) and NSW (SE Lachlan). Read...

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Satellites in the Developing World

Within 24 hours of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, space agencies and companies around the world tasked satellites with providing free images of the earthquake’s aftermath. Experts quickly analyzed and interpreted images taken from space,...

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Hiroshima A-bomb Archive Site With 3-D Satellite Map

A recently launched website aimed at passing down the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to future generations, using a 3-D digital satellite map, is gaining public attention, following a similar site on the Nagasaki atomic...

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

APRSAF 18 Announced

We are pleased to announce that the eighteenth session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency
Forum (APRSAF-18) will be held from 6 to 9 December 2011 in Singapore. The APRSAF-18 will be jointly
organized by...