Esri joined the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Geological Survey in congratulating the winners of the Visualise Your Water Quality high school citizen science challenge. In the challenge, students from 13 US states used GIS software and open water-quality datasets to investigate nutrient pollution in their local watershed, raising awareness for issues […]
Canon Europe has launched four new monochrome large format devices, the Océ PlotWave 345, 365, 450 and 550. Designed especially for workgroups across architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and manufacturing industries, the high-performance system handles large sets of technical documents, saving on both time and cost. The Océ PlotWave 345 and 365 are well suited […]
HP is collaborating with Nvidia to deliver workstations for 3D content creators, media professionals, game and application developers, and others to create visually engaging and immersive virtual reality experiences. New HP Z Workstation configurations are Nvidia VR Ready systems, equipped with Nvidia Quadro professional GPUs. The new configurations provide the performance necessary for content […]
Boson is Flir Systems’ smallest, lightest, and least power-consuming, high-performance uncooled thermal camera for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It is the company’s first thermal camera core to incorporate a low-power, multi-core vision processor running Flir XIR expandable infrared video processing architecture. The camera features a high sensitivity 12-micron pixel pitch detector that provides high-resolution […]
MMD, Asia Pacific brand licensing partner of Philips Monitors, has unveiled the new Philips Brilliance 109 cm 4K monitor. The Ultra High Definition (UHD) professional display offers crystal clear images in a bigger picture, and designed with discerning customers in mind: demanding professionals requiring detailed images for meticulous applications, such as CAD solutions, 3D […]
The French National Institute of Geographic and Forestry Information (IGN) has awarded Airbus Defence and Space and Thales GeoMaps contract to supply the French Ministry of Defence database with digital geographic data on a range of scales, including city maps. The data will mainly be based on images acquired by the two Pléiades satellites, […]
CyanoLakes is implementing a project to provide the South African public with information that protects them from toxic cyanobacteria blooms. Funded by the Water Research Commission, the three-year project seeks to exploit satellite-based earth observation data to monitor more than 100 dams around the country, providing historical as well as real-time information. The Earth […]
East View Geospatial announced the availability of PlanetDEM 30 Plus, the latest product from Planet Observer. As part of an ongoing partnership between the two companies, East View customers will now have access to a multi-source elevation model that provides 30 m resolution at a global scale, with detailed, accurate and reliable data. The […]
Esri invites submissions for the Esri User Conference’s Esri Story Map contest for a chance to win prizes and peer recognition at the conference. The company launched the contest to celebrate the creative and innovative uses of this new storytelling medium. Submissions will be judged on factors such as design, user experience, impact, and overall creativity […]
The 2015 Nigerian Settlement dataset has been generated primarily from 30 m resolution Landsat 8 satellite imagery acquired during 2014-2015, and provides national coverage of Nigeria. Satellite imagery has been used to identify and delineate all settlement boundaries, ranging from large urban cities to small rural villages. In addition to settlements, the dataset also […]
