Monday, August 8th, 2011
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
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 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
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
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
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
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...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Australian scientists are putting the finishing touches on a highly advanced tsunami warning system in a remote desert region north of Perth. Researchers say the array of sensors is the first in the world able to make...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Krakatau (also known as Krakatoa), a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, has been intermittently active for the past several decades. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately...
