News from the geospatial industry includes an announcement from Esri about a CityEngine course its staff will teach at SIGGRAPH 2011, the Image of the Week from ESA, and a call for CalGIS abstracts from URISA. Nvision and Pointools also make company announcements. Esri Esri will exhibit and teach […]
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GIS News: Horn of Africa Drought, Image of the Week, OpenDataPhilly
The European Space Agency has released Horn of Africa drought imagery and its image of the week showing Patagonia. The OGC is seeking input on two projects, and Esri and Azavea both announced the availability of data from OpenDataPhilly. FIND Map, SuperGeo, Cadcorp, Timmons Group, eSpatial, and URISA round […]
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GIS News: Esri releases, Image of the Week from ESA
The roundup of geospatial news over the past week includes several software and data announcements from Esri, an image of the week from ESA covering the volcanic island of Guadalupe, and the winners of the 2011 Thacher Environmental Research Contest. SuperGeo, Topcon, TC Technology, OGC, Bluesky, eSpatial, IDV Solutions, gvSIG, and Safe […]
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GIS News: Online Native Plant Center, Esri Appoints New Chief Scientist, Image of the Week
The latest geospatial news includes an announcement from Esri on its new Chief Scientist, the launching of an online Native Plant Center by Image Matters, and press releases from Topcon, ESRI Canada, Merrick, and Cityworks. Lastly, ESA’s image of the week is from Alaska’s Yukon Delta. Esri Ocean scientist, geographer, and geographic […]
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Today in GIS: gvSIG Italian Conference Reports, Strait of Bonifacio
Reports from the fourth annual Italian gvSIG conference are available. ESA’s Earth from Space image of the week features the Strait of Bonifacio, located between the French island of Corsica and the Italian island of Sardinia. The strait divides the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea. The image was created by combining […]