April 24, 2013

Earth at Your Fingertips - Free eBook

NOW on iTunes: The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a free 100 page ebook for iOS users. The book, entitled, "Earth from Space: the Living Beauty" contains over 100 pages and includes interactive maps, satellite imagery collected from ESA's missions, and animations demonstrating various aspects of the world.

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Mapping Ecological Change with NEON

With Earth Day nearing, it is an opportune time to highlight a developing project, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).  NEON is funded by the National Science Foundation.  Elizabeth Blood, the National Science Foundation program director responsible for overseeing NEON, Dave Tazik, NEON's director of biology and project scientist, and Tom Kampe, NEON's assistant director for remote sensing ...

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Landsat 8

One of NASA’s latest missions involves the Landsat 8, an orbiting satellite whose purpose it is to map the earth and track changes as seen from space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been launching Landsat satellites into space since the early 1970s. The first Landsat satellite was launched in 1972.  The Landsat archive, managed by the USGS Earth ...

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GIS Capability Maturity Model Open for Comments

URISA has opened up its draft document, "GIS Capability Maturity Model" for public review from April 23 to May 31, 2013.

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GIS Survey: GIS Certification

Do you have a GIS certification such as a GISP or an Esri technical certification? Fill out the survey to explain why you do or do not hold a certification.

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Geospatial Book Pick

Esri Press  has republished C. Dana Tomlin's foundational text, Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling, originally printed in 1990. The book has been revised and reissued under the title GIS and Cartographic Modeling .

Upcoming GIS Events

• First Asia Pacific 3D Documentation Conference 
  Date(s): April 25 – 26, 2013 
  Location: Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore

• Geospatial World Forum 
  Date(s): May 13 - 15, 2013 
  Location: Beurs-World Trade Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• Geoweb Summit 
  Date(s): May 23, 2013 - 4pm - 9pm 
  Location: Brooklyn, NY

• 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography 
  Date(s): June 30 – July 5, 2013 
  Location: Helsinki, Finland

• GI_Forum 2013 
  Date(s): July 2 – 5, 2013 
  Location: Salzburg, Austria

• British Cartographic Society Annual Symposium 
  Date(s): September 3 - 5, 2013 
  Location: Hothorpe Hotel, Leicestershire, England

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Geospatial Industry News  

• Mayrise Software Underpins Multi Million UK Highways Contract
• Critigen Announces Business Partner agreement with Trimble for Industry Solutions
• Supergeo Unveils SuperVeyor 2013 for Flexible Field Data Collection
• FOSS4G-CEE
• 3D Laser Mapping Launches New Environmental Monitoring Solutions
• Bluesky LiDAR Data Used Inform Flood Prevention on Ancient Heathland
• Turn Excel into a GIS Data Logger
• Call for Papers Reminder: GSDI and AfricaGIS Conference
• Space and Time Come Together Through Esri and OSIsoft Partnership
• Esri Map Shows Real-time Effects of Heavy Rains and Flooding in the Midwest

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