GEO Business 2014 is the newest major geospatial event in the UK. And it is unique in being the result of a collaboration between the British geographic information organization Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and three […]
The Canadian Geomatics Sector employs 27,000 people. It provides geospatial information products and services to the user community for geospatially enabling decision‐making and policy planning. The Geomatics Sector is also responsible for the development and […]
Everyone in the geospatial industry knows that 80% of data has a geospatial component, but I have never seen a reference or link to the research on which this is based. GIS Lounge has tried […]
In the last year or so I have come across a number of UAVs at the various conferences I have attended. They range from hexacopters to fixed wing aircraft, but all of them suffer from […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 2.1 billion fish, crabs, and shrimp are killed annually by being pinned against cooling water intake structures (impingement) or being drawn into cooling water systems and affected […]
MultiSpeak was developed under the auspices of the National Rural Electric Assn (NRECA) and is intended as an industry-wide standard for the exchange of information for electricity distribution utilities and all vertically-integrated segments except power […]
Currently investment in energy is about $1.6 trillion per year. Most of today’s investment spending, well over $1 trillion per year, is spent on extracting, transporting, and refining fossil fuels or building coal and gas-fired […]
A draft schedule of presentations at FOSS4G 2014 in Portland has been posted. It includes eight tracks over three days, plus invited talks and keynote speakers. Together the speakers represent 20 different countries.