EO4AGRI project, focusing on Earth observation for agricultural purposes, is coming to its end. The workshop of the EO4AGRI project will present final EO4AGRI Strategic Research Agenda and recommended Roadmap towards improving the European capacity for operational agriculture monitoring based on information derived from…
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) partnered with Gateway Global American Youth and Business Alliance Academies Inc. (AYBAA), an education management and workforce solutions provider in the St Louis region, to bring Entry to Executive, an industry certification program,…
Seabed Geosolutions has secured a contract for a baseline 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey as well as a future 4D monitor OBN survey in Brazil. The project is to be acquired in water depths greater than 2,200m and the…
Imagine you want to see the world around you, but the only option is looking through a window. The view is fine. You can see what’s in front of you, and if you stick your neck out far enough, you…
Parrot announced a partnership with Colorado Drone Chargers (CDC), a provider of field ready, high speed drone charging systems. Parrot and CDC designed a revolutionary charging system for the ANAFI USA batteries, allowing professionals to simultaneously charge four Parrot ANAFI…
Sarah Bell from Esri presents robust mapping and design tool named Maps for Adobe 2.0. Sarah Bell says: “In 2015, I gave my very first NACIS talk on a fun mapping tool prototype we were calling ArcGIS Maps for Adobe…
Funded by the European Commission, EUXDAT project (European e-Infrastructure for Extreme Data Analytics in Sustainable Development) started in November 2017. October 2020 is its last month. EUXDAT proposes an e-infrastructure, which addresses agriculture, land monitoring and energy efficiency for a…
This mid-term report of challenge #3 in Covid-19 INSPIRE hackathon contains the most interesting and valuable achievements, which have been done so far. There are 19 registered participants in our challenge. A collaboration with challenges has been established or being…
Covid-19 INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is the two-month virtual event, run by Czech company Plan4all. The hackathon has 13 challenges. Every challenge is introduced in a webinar. If you miss the event, you can replay it. The challenge #11 of the…
Ib Green, CTO at Unfolded and the lead architect of deck.gl, has announced that deck.gl, which has been developed under the stewardship of Uber’s Engineering organization over the last 5 years, has now taken a big step and moved to…
Tools developer Ephtracy has Aerialod, a free interactive path tracing renderer for visualising height maps for use in game development or visual effects work. The software imports height maps in a range of standard formats and converts them into renderable…
At their company blog, Trimble Geospatial explains concepts and problems with coordinate systems. Part 1. Part 2 Part 1: Five Basic Geodetic Concepts Explained Trimble has built GIS data collection software for more than two decades and works closely with…
On their company blog, Trimble Geospatial has published a series about coordinate systems. Part 1. Part 2. Part 2: Common problems with coordinate systems configurations “Why does my data look that way?” Now that we’ve covered the basics of coordinate…
Steve Haynes from Esri has published an update about ArcGIS Earth on their company blog. ArcGIS Earth is an interactive 3D experience for users to plan, visualize, and evaluate events on the globe. ArcGIS Earth provides situational awareness of an…
Covid-19 INSPIRE hackathon 2020 has 13 challenges, #5 is about collaborative map making with the help of so called map whiteboard. Since the inception of map whiteboard challenge and the first draft release in summer 2020, various improvements have been…
The “SymCore” standard will increase consistency between different maps by defining agreed upon symbology rules. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the Symbology Conceptual Model: Core Part (SymCore) as a new OGC Standard. The Symbology Conceptual Core Model…
Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the…
Commission 7 of the International Federation of Sureyors conducted its annual meeting in an online format between the 20th and 22nd of October 2020. The theme of the conference was Building community resilience: Urban-rural land linkages and strategies to deal…
GIS Day is just one day, so choose wisely, e. g. three points from the following huge list of possible ways to participate in the celebration of geography. The following list was previously published at gisday.com, maintained by Esri. 1.…
QGIS is the open source software, fully comparable to Esri ArcGIS as it is described in this document, founded by Tim Sutton. Anita Graser (@underdarkGIS) and Gretchen N. Peterson (@PetersonGIS) updated their book named QGIS Map Design for new QGIS…
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