Jointly hosted by Wellington City Council and Land Information New Zealand, the 4th Digital Earth Summit 2012 will bring over 400 scientists, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs, managers, administrators and students from around the world, who use the power of collaboration in order to address challenges to human society.   The theme this year is "Digital […]

  The Map Room points out a beautiful visualisation created by NASA that shows the world’s ocean currents in a way that looks like it could have been created by Van Gogh himself. Simply beautiful, and there’s a link to a video, too.   With April Fool’s Day having just passed us by, eSpatial have […]

  Nominations for the Queensland Spatial Excellence Awards (QSEA) in both the individual and industry categories are now open.   An annual event presented by the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) and the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI), the QSEA are unique to the Queensland surveying and spatial industry.   Now in its seventh […]

  Position Partners has opened a new office in Fyshwick, Canberra, servicing the ACT and the South West and South Coast of NSW.   The new branch will offer the company’s full range of Topcon laser, GPS, survey and machine control solutions, in addition to service and repair, hire and training facilities. A wide range […]

  The US Army has procured BAE Systems’ commercial data management software, GXP Xplorer, to help search for and retrieve geospatial data from various legacy repositories.   Under the terms of the contract, the US Army’s Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Enabled Common Ground Station will deploy 50 GXP Xplorer enterprise server licenses starting in […]

  The free 2012 UNSW SSIS/Advisory Board Research Workshop entitled “Trends in Geospatial Technology: Implications for Research” will be held at UNSW on 13 April 2012.   Topics covered include: Trends in photogrammetry/imaging Cartography & geoinformation, & implications for geospatial developments in general Trends in remote sensing GNSS and modern geodesy Navigation & Earth Observation […]