SAN JOSE, Calif. - As the FAA’s Part 107 takes effect this week, there are several opportunities for end users of UAS technology to become educated at this November’s Drone World Expo (DWE) taking place November 15-16 at the San Jose Convention Center. DWE has...
URISA Announces 2016 GIS Hall of Fame Inductees
Des Plaines, IL - The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association is pleased to announce the induction of three deserving individuals into its GIS Hall of Fame. URISA’s GIS Hall of Fame honors persons and organizations that have made significant and...
Jeff McKenna Wins 2016 Sol Katz Award for Community Leadership
Jeff McKenna, the past president of the OSGeo foundation and the co-founder of the international FOSS4G conference, was honored on Friday with the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during closing ceremony of the FOSS4G-2016 conference in...
GISCI Announces 2016 Fall Exam Test Period
The next 2016 testing window for the GISCI Geospatial Core Technical Knowledge Exam® as a part of the GISP Certification has been scheduled for December 3-10, and will be administered by PSI Online through their worldwide testing facilities in a computer based...
OGC's 100th Technical and Planning Committee Meetings to be held September 19-23 2016 in Orlando, Florida
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to attend its 100th Technical and Planning Committee Meeting, which will be sponsored by CAE and held at the University of Central Florida from September 19-23, 2016. This meeting will be partly framed by the theme...
ILMF 2016- Call for Papers – Deadline this Thursday!!
The 17th annual International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), taking place in Denver, Colorado, USA, February 13-15, 2017, has announced a Call for Papers and invites interested parties to submit their abstracts by September 1, 2016 online here. ILMF is a technical...
2016 URISA Exemplary Systems in Government Award Recipients Announced
Des Plaines - URISA Is pleased to announce the recipients of 2016 Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Awards. Since 1980, URISA’s ESIG Awards have recognized extraordinary achievements in the use of geospatial information technology that have improved the...
Kari Craun Honored by USGS Peers with Henry Gannett Award for Exceptional Contributions to Topographic Mapping
To commemorate the nation’s first chief geographer, the USGS established the Henry Gannett Award in 2009. As a new addition to the Gannett Award, the National Geospatial Program (NGP) has established the Henry Gannett internal award to recognize outstanding...
FARO Solutions Featured in Investigation Scenes of Japanese Movie Himitsu “ THE TOP SECRET
Aichi – FARO Japan, Inc. (Head office in Aichi, Chief Commercial Officer: Joseph Arezone) announced that its 3D laser scanner, FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D, as well as its handheld scanner, FARO Scanner Freestyle3D, were used as cutting-edge crime investigation...
ILMF – Call for Papers – Deadline September 1
The 17th annual International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), taking place in Denver, Colorado, USA, February 13-15, 2017, has announced a Call for Papers and invites interested parties to submit their abstracts by September 1, 2016. ILMF is a technical conference...