April 20, 2015 — The fourth volume of the comprehensive history of the U.S. Geological Survey, Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare: Volume 4, 1939‒1961, has been issued as an electronic document. Featuring more than 200...
GOCE Helps Tap into Sustainable Energy Resources
April 17, 2015 — Going far above and beyond its original mission objectives, results from the GOCE gravity satellite are now being used to produce maps for geothermal energy development. Geothermal energy is heat from under Earth’s surface. From hot springs to...
BC Assessment Wins Award for Transforming Property Assessment Using GIS
VICTORIA, April 17, 2015 — BC Assessment (BCA) received an Award of Excellence today from Esri Canada for using geographic information system (GIS) technology to improve property assessment and public access to property information in British Columbia. BCA was the...
Esri and Safe Software Release Common Framework for Data Exchange among Electrical Power Utilities
Redlands, California, April 17, 2015 — Esri and Safe Software have paired to develop and openly share a Common Information Model (CIM) template for data exchange. The template demonstrates one approach to translating network data from an Esri ArcGIS database into...
Earth Observation 2.0 “ How Satellite Data Reveal Our Blue Planet
April 17, 2015 — The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is organising the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE) in Berlin from 11 to 15 May 2015. The conference has taken place every two...
Topcon Kicks off 2015 Technology Roadshow with Expanded Tour Schedule
LIVERMORE, Calif. – April 17, 2015 — Topcon Positioning Group announces the kickoff of the 2015 Topcon Technology Roadshow in Toronto, Ontario. The mobile solutions center will embark on its trek on April 22 – 23, and then continue all across North America...
Minister Rickford Unveils the New Edition of the Map of Canada
KENORA, ON, April 16, 2015 — The Honourable Greg Rickford, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, today unveiled the newest edition of the map of Canada at St. Louis School in Kenora,...
Dude Solutions Inc. Purchases GIS and Mobile Mapping Provider Mobile311
CARY AND SANFORD, N.C., April 16, 2015 — Dude Solutions Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of operations management solutions, today announced the acquisition of Mobile311, a geographical information system (GIS) and mobile mapping solution provider. The...
Accela Launches GeoTMS 10.4
SAN RAMON, Calif., April 16, 2015 — Accela, the leading provider of cloud-based civic engagement solutions for government, announced today the launch of GeoTMS 10.4. GeoTMS automates the way local government works by providing solutions to easily process and track...
GEO-Siberia Attendees to see Optech Solutions for Airborne and Underground Sensing
April 16, 2015 — Optech is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at GEO-Siberia in Novosibirsk, Russia, on April 20-22, 2015, where it will display exciting new remote sensing tools for both airborne and underground surveying in booth 303. With its...
