MINNEAPOLIS —GEOSYS, a leading global provider of agronomic decision support tools, today announced a collaboration with SST Software to add in-season satellite imagery for users in North America and Australia via the agX® Platform, which acts as a portal for users...
2015 Gannett Award Presented
To commemorate the nation's first chief geographer, the USGS established the Henry Gannett Award. This year's recipient is Nicholas Mastrodicasa, Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities, for his leadership in the Alaska Statewide Digital Mapping...
Bluesky Launches Soil Map of England and Wales Online
Leicestershire, UK, 16 March 2016 – Aerial mapping company Bluesky and Cranfield University have launched an online map showing soil types across England and Wales. The National Soil Map has been created from soil datasets produced by Cranfield University and is...
SPAR 3D Offers More Hands-On Learning and Live Demonstrations
The Woodlands, TX — SPAR 3D Expo & Conference has announced several new developments for its 13th edition, which will be held April 11-14, 2016 at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center. The event is focused on 3D technology applications...
EIVA Announces New Generation of Survey Navigation and Positioning Solution
NaviPac 4 is the result of a major overhaul of the survey navigation and positioning software developed by EIVA. The flagship of the software suite from the engineering specialist was announced on Tuesday at Oceanology International 2016 in London. The new...
OGC publishes Testbed 11 Geospatial Information Management Engineering Reports
14 March 2016 – The OGC Members recently approved release of all the public OGC Engineering Reports that resulted from the 2015 OGC Interoperability Testbed 11. Testbed 11 is the most recently completed of the OGC's long series of major geospatial interoperability...
Poland Chooses MobileMapper 300 to Spot-Check Compliance for EU Direct Pay Subsidies
Krakow, March 14, 2016 — The agency responsible for the supervision and control of European Union agricultural subsidies in Poland, the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture (ARMA), has purchased 118 MobileMapper 300 smart antennas. The...
New Maps of 2015 Floods Help S. Carolina Plan for the Future
The U.S. Geological Survey has created 20 new flood inundation maps that can help South Carolinians take steps to prevent or reduce future flood damage in the areas affected by the widespread floods of October 2015. The maps, which document the extent and depth of...
Despite Ban, Ozone-Eating Chemical Remains Prevalent
Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), once commonly used as a cleaning agent, is a known air toxin that eats away at the ozone layer. Its production has been banned for many years, but a new CIRES and NOAA study reports those rates are still 30-100 times higher than amounts reported to emission inventories.
Landsat Satellite Spots Sunken Ships
Using data from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite, researchers have detected sediment plumes extending as far as four kilometers downstream from shallow shipwreck sites, demonstrating how satellites may be used to locate the watery graves of coastal shipwrecks.
