On Tuesday 28 August, as part the Congress, ISPRS hosted a one day Earth Observation Forum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the International Symposia on Remote Sensing of Environment. There are a number of fora that bring together different sectors of the space industry, including GEO, CEOS, GGIM and meetings organised by […]
New ISPRS technical commission presidents and council announced
By Spatial Source on 3 September, 2012During the congress, the new technical commission presidents were announced, as well as the next ISPRS council elected. The new Technical Commission Presidents are: TC I: Charles Toth TC 2: Songnian Li TC 3: Konrad Schindler TC 4: Jiang Jie TC 5: Fabio Remondino TC 6: Jianya Gong TC 7: Filiz Sunar TC […]
Ozri 2012 starts next week
By Spatial Source on 27 August, 2012The biggest GIS conference in Australia, Ozri, starts in Sydney next week. There will be a interesting presentations from a host of different international presenters, including: Esri Australia Principal Consultant Gary Johnson, who believes that GIS technology, which is already used widely by insurers in risk assessment, is the silver bullet for banks […]
Esri CTO Joins Dialog
By Spatial Source on 27 August, 2012Dialog Information Technology recently announced that Josh Venman, formerly Esri’s Chief Technology Strategist, is joining the National Google Enterprise practice to head the Geospatial Consulting Team. According to Dialog, Josh brings a wealth of experience in the Geospatial/GIS market to the practice, and will be providing architectural consultancy for organisations that are looking […]
Geocortex User Conference
By Spatial Source on 27 August, 2012A Geocortex Technical Training and Workshop event will be held in Sydney on Tuesday 4th September – Wednesday 5th September 2012. Day 1 is a technical training day for users and developers of Web GIS applications. Day 2 is an applications seminar that will benefit anyone interested in the rapidly developing world of […]
Ergon recruits game developers for geospatial project
By Spatial Source on 27 August, 2012via IT News Ergon Energy is experimenting with open source gaming engines and physics models in an effort to capitalise on a massive geospatial data set from its ongoing laser-mapping project. The Queensland utility has completed 10 percent of its year-old ROAMES project, expected to map out some 150,000km of power lines […]
Cameron Shorter joins OSGeo board
By Spatial Source on 27 August, 2012Congratulations to Cameron Shorter, Geospatial Solutions Manager at LISAsoft and supporter and promoter of the OSGeo-Live DVD, who has been appointed to the OSGeo Board. Cameron had this to say on his blog: I feel quite humbled and very honoured to have been voted onto the OSGeo Board. I'll do my best […]
University of Salzburg establishes Geoinformatics as interdisciplinary domain
By Spatial Source on 27 August, 2012Combining the success stories of the previous “Centre for Geoinformatics” with the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ “Institute for Geographic Information Science”, the University of Salzburg, on August 1, 2012, founded its new “Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS”. This step acknowledges the important new interdisciplinary positioning, placing Geoinformatics at the intersections of technical, natural and […]
Best of the Blogs 28 August 2012
By Spatial Source on 27 August, 2012GIS Lounge has a fascinating post that talks of research undertaken at TelAviv University and the University of California, Los Angeles, which has created a method for more precisely pinpointing the geographic origin of a person's ancestry, by developing an understanding of the spatial diversity of genes. LiDAR News has a piece on […]
12d Innovation Awards winners announced
By Spatial Source on 22 August, 2012It's hard to shock engineers, but that was the impact when Samuel Cech told the 12d Model International User Conference of life during and after the massive Christchurch earthquakes. The days of fatal destruction — and the strength of a community when necessities like shelter, fresh water and sanitation can no longer be […]
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