Articles in the GIS News Category

Mar 2016 | No Comment

To better prepare for and respond to national emergencies, the Department of Homeland Security in the US needed to adopt new technologies that facilitated community collaboration..

Feb 2016 | No Comment

The city of Hudson will spend an estimated $222,000 to create digital mapping for its storm sewer, sanitary sewer and water utilities. The city expects to receive…

Jan 2016 | No Comment

India’s Union Minister for Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, has recently announced the launch of National Centre of Geo-Informatics…

Dec 2015 | No Comment

Two computers sat side-by-side at a recent demonstration showing the mapping available to Kane County Emergency Communications (KaneComm) dispatchers before…

Nov 2015 | No Comment

Blue Marble Geographics has released an update to the Global Mapper LiDAR Module. The latest edition of the module includes numerous functional enhancements and performance improvements that have been designed to improve the quality and utility of LiDAR and other point cloud data…

Oct 2015 | No Comment

The recent earthquake and tsunami in Chile showed once again how important a precise early warning system is. Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute are…

Sep 2015 | No Comment

The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded approximately $4 million this week to four universities – California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley…

Aug 2015 | No Comment

EuroGeographics has signed a contract to provide pan-European geographic information and related services to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union…

Jul 2015 | No Comment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Version 2 Interface Standard. It provides rules for standardizing how inputs and outputs….

May 2015 | No Comment

FARO Technologies has released newly designed PointSense for Autodesk’s Revit® building design software. It introduces functionality to improve the evaluation and conversion of point cloud data to Building Information Modeling (BIM).