GEO World back issues from June 2009:
Position is geotechnology as important as energy?
Jun 01, 2009; ... Natural resources and energy are the themes for this issue, which was distributed at our GeoTec Event in Vancouver. These topics currently are at the top of everyone's discussion list, and rightfully so. Energy is one of the major concerns of our times. It might even be the top ...
CDC and IBM monitoring swine flu.(NEWSLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... To help combat the "swine flu" influenza A (H1N1) virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are working to provide consumers and partners with social-media tools that access information about the outbreak ....
Acropolis Modeled in 3-D.(NEWSLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Laser-scanning technology was used to create 3-D models of the historic Acropolis in Greece. To develop the GIS, the project included field measurements to generate a polygonometric network and terrestrial laser scanning of the walls and the Erechtheion monument, image acquisition, ...
Sewall and Winrock deliver carbon project consulting.(NEWSLINK)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... James W. Sewall Co. and Winrock International teamed to provide carbon-mitigation solutions to forestland owners and investors. As the role of forests in sequestering carbon gains global attention, landowners and investors have growing opportunities to realize financial returns from ...
GIS helps California Audubon identify bird habitats.(NEWSLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Conservationists, bird watchers, farmers and developers across California now can access bird-habitat information from a digital bank of maps and data created with GIS technology. Commissioned by the National Audubon Society and BirdLife International, the Important Bird Areas (IBA) ...
Resource of the month.(NETLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... MARKETMAKER MarketMaker is an online tool to link farmers with grocery stores, food processors, specialty outlets, food-industry representatives and consumers who want to buy their products. University of Illinois Extension created the software five years ago when specialty beef ...
Autodesk Inc.(NETLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Autodesk's AutoCAD Exchange is an online destination for AutoCAD users to connect and learn from experts, provide feedback to product developers, and access professional tools that can help them improve job ...
ESRI.(NETLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ESRI launched the Resource Center for Water Utilities Management, which offers step-by-step videos and templates for editing asset data, sharing information with the mobile workforce, and ...
Geographic technologies group (GTG).(NETLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... GTG now offers customized directions from its ...
Infoterra.(NETLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Infoterra developed a browser-based desktop survey solution for Crawford & Co., a provider of ...
James W. Sewall Co.(NETLINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... James W. Sewall and Forisk Consulting released MillVantage, an online geodatabase of information on mills and wood-consuming bio-energy facilities, ...
The Schneider Corp.(NETLINK)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa, assessors combined their individual GIS Web sites to form a new beacon site that provides one location to obtain assessment data, maps and other related information. Also, McCook County, S.D., ...
California names first geospatial information officer.(PEOPLELINK)(Michael Byrne)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... In spring 2009, Teri Takai, California's chief information officer, appointed Michael Byrne as the state's first geospatial information officer (GIO) The new GIO post falls in line with an IT-management overhaul that has been occurring in the state in recent years in August ...
Dan Brooks.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Dan Brooks joined 3-GIS ...
Mark Paraskeva.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Mark Paraskeva was appointed Autodesk Inc.'s new ...
Akhlesh Kaushiva.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Akhlesh Kaushiva, vice president of commercial IT services, Avineon, was appointed to the Geospatial Information and Technology ...
Flight Landata Inc.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Flight Landata Inc. elected Bruce Blessington as ...
North Carolina corporate office.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Geographic Technologies Group added Brent Johnson as GIS solutions manager at its new ...
Oren Etzioni.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Geosemble Technologies Inc. appointed Oren ...
Lawrence E. Morse.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. named ...
Ray Helmering.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Ray Helmering was named GeoEye Inc.'s vice president of ...
Kate de Groot.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Intelligent Addressing appointed Kate de Groot as an ...
T. Wayne Hampel.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... T. Wayne Hampel joined James W. Sewall ...
Jeff Young.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... LizardTech hired Jeff Young as business-development manager for ...
Jeff Lovin.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors elected Jeff Lovin, vice president ...
Ward Parkinson and Tom Kealey.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Ward Parkinson and Tom Kealey joined ...
John White.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The Newark College of Engineering named John White, senior direct sales ...
Steve Mendenhall.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Psomas added Steve Mendenhall as team leader, Surveying and ...
Tim Brogdon.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Skylla Engineering hired Tim Brogdon ...
Rhett Caltrider.(PEOPLELINK)
Jun 01, 2009 ... SPOT Image added Rhett Caltrider as ...
Census bureau counts down to 2010.(GOVERNMENTCONNECTION)
Jun 01, 2009 ... With the 2010 Census only a year away, the U.S. Census Bureau continues to prepare for the massive national head-counting project. Data from the census should help leaders make key decisions, from congressional representation to the allocation of more than $300 billion annually in federal ...
NOAA delivers Great Lakes data to Google Earth.(GOVERNMENT CONNECTION)
Jun 01, 2009 ... NOAA is providing Google Earth with data that include detailed 3-D mapping of the Great Lakes, a move that should help public users virtually explore the depths of the lakes. The Great Lakes are the largest system of fresh surface water on Earth, containing roughly 18 percent of ...
Landsat 7 marks milestone.(GOVERNMENTCONNECTION)
Jun 01, 2009 ... In spring 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) marked a milestone for the Landsat 7 satellite, which surpassed 10 years of recording features of the planet's land mass. Landsat 7 was designed to last only three to five years. Landsat 7's companion satellite, Landsat 5, ...
USGS provides information on Antarctic and Titanic ice.(GOVERNMENT CONNECTION)
Jun 01, 2009 ... A new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report indicates that climate change is causing Antarctica's glaciers to melt more rapidly than previously known. The report was prepared in close collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey. The study documents for the first time that one ...
Beyond mapping: a narrow-minded approach is sometimes needed.
Jun 01, 2009; ... In previous "Beyond Mapping" columns, advanced and sometimes unfamiliar concepts of distance were discussed. The traditional definition of "shortest straight line between two points" for distance was extended to the concept of proximity by relaxing the "two points" requirement. Then the ...
The "G" in GIS: the meaning of geography: from Arcview to Streetview.
Jun 01, 2009; ... With a humble start in May 2007, covering only five U.S. cities, Google StreetView has been expanding rapidly to now cover major cities in more than nine countries across three continents. Using a car-roof-mounted array of nine panoramic cameras designed to capture 360-degree horizontal ...
There's gold in them hills! (At least according to GIS and fuzzy logic).(Natural Resources)(geographic information system )
Jun 01, 2009; ... Since the 1880s, the La Plata Mountains of southwestern Colorado have undergone numerous mineral extraction and exploration projects. However, a regional analysis of the area's geologic structures, lithology and geochemical signatures hasn't occurred since the area was mapped in the first ...
Utility poles at risk: specialists use multivariate classification to examine structure lifespan.(Spatial Analysis)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Power-delivery engineers design transmission lines that are configured to maintain electrical load during extreme weather conditions over long periods of time. Shortly after every major ice storm or hurricane, the complex engineering standards used to prevent outages become evident. ...
Corn power? GIS examines ethanol transmission.(Infrastructure)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Amid the clamor of national debate over how best to reduce reliance on oil, the call to replace petroleum with ethanol made enough noise to attract government and industry attention. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A federal mandate, passed in December 2007, requires that the ...
Infoterra GmbH.(PRODUCT NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Infoterra GmbH submitted and delivered to the European Environment Agency high-resolution core land-cover data ...
AeroGRID.(DATA)
Jun 01, 2009 ... AeroGRID released detailed aerial imagery of 11 major Polish cities: Warsaw, ...
Tele Atlas.(DATA)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Tele Atlas released its latest version of Tele Atlas Speed Profiles, which provides speed ...
Cadcorp.(SOFTWARE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Cadcorp introduced Cadcorp SIS 7.0, offering integration of Microsoft Virtual Earth connectivity; the facility to create mashups with Google Maps and Virtual Earth; new data management facilities, ...
ERDAS.(SOFTWARE)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ERDAS introduced a suite of extensions that operate with Stereo Analyst for AreGIS, available for ArcGIS 9.3, and upgraded its Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS. The company also introduced FeatureAssist for ArcGIS, which ...
ESRI.(SOFTWARE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ESRI announced that its Production Line Tool Set for ArcGIS--Aeronautical Solution now enables aviation organizations to populate Electronic Terrain and Obstacle databases. In addition, ESRI released ArcGIS Business Analyst Server ...
GeoSpatial Experts.(SOFTWARE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... GeoSpatial Experts introduced the GPS-Photo Link Express Series, a consumer edition of its photomapping ...
Leica Geosystems.(SOFTWARE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Leica Geosystems introduced Leica GNSS Spider 3.2, which provides improved compatibility with GPS L2C and GLONASS satellite signals provided by ...
Safe Software.(SOFTWARE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Safe Software introduced read support for the OpenStreetMap format in its latest ...
Oce.(HARDWARE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Oce released its Oce CS4236 wide-format color scanner, the first Oce ...
SPECIM, Spectral Imaging Ltd.(HARDWARE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... SPECIM, Spectral Imaging Ltd. released AisaEAGLET, a hyperspectral-imaging airborne sensor designed for small aircrafts and unmanned aerial ...
ESRI.(MISC.)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ESRI published GIS Tutorial for Health, Third Edition, which provides ...
Global Marketing Insights Inc.(MISC.)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Global Marketing Insights Inc. completed the "2008 Africa Survey and Analysis of the Remote Sensing ...
Telvent.(MISC.)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Telvent introduced, with its business partner Echelon Corp., ...
Infoterra Ltd.(BUSINESS NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Infoterra Ltd. will undertake an oil-slick mapping and interpretation ...
Allen Precision Equipment.(BUSINESS NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Allen Precision Equipment ...
Autodesk.(BUSINESS NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Autodesk announced that 1 Spatial will be the first UK value-added reseller of Autodesk Topobase ...
CompassData Inc.(BUSINESS NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... CompassData Inc. was added to the Prime Vendor Contract offered by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, ...
Digital Data Technologies Inc.(BUSINESS NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Digital Data Technologies Inc. was selected by Portage County to create and deliver its Location-Based ...
Enspiria Solutions.(BUSINESS NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Enspiria Solutions joined the ...
ERDAS.(BUSINESS NEWS)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ERDAS announced that LPS was recently selected and used for a project to create 3-D models of the Acropolis in Greece. ERDAS also announced that ...
ESRI.(BUSINESSNEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ESRI announced that ArcGIS Server technology is being used by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to develop an enterprise GIS; Lundin Mining Corp. selected ESRI as its global GIS software provider and entered a two-year multinational agreement; Alliant Energy Corp. signed a ...
ESRI Canada.(BUSINESSNEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ESRI Canada partnered with ESRI China Beijing, Trimble China, International Land Systems Inc. and Landstar Digital Technology ...
ESRI (UK).(BUSINESSNEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ESRI (UK) won a contract to supply GIS ...
GeoAnalytics Inc.(BUSINESSNEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... GeoAnalytics Inc. implemented Rolta's OnPoint Web-mapping solution ...
GeoDecisions.(BUSINESSNEWS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... GeoDecisions was selected by the city of Grandview, Mo., to ...