Technology provider Maptek has donated an I-Site laser scanning instrument to the University of California Berkeley.  After years of renting I-Site scanners, the university can now use the technology for graduate and undergraduate research. Educational licenses of Maptek I-Site Studio, intuitive 3D point cloud processing and modelling software, have also been provided. The donation will help students overcome hurdles they commonly experience in their research projects, such as capturing accurate data quickly and easily.
Graduate students have used scanners in the past for vegetation and hydrologic mapping.

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that it has contributed $100,000 to Water For People in support of the organization’s work improving water systems in emerging economies around the world. Bentley has also donated a selection of eight software products from its portfolio, including MicroStation, WaterGEMS, SewerGEMS, FlowMaster, and Bentley Map. The software will be used by Water For People team members to design, engineer, and construct water systems, as well as to map the functionality of water points in every district. Team members will access the software through Bentley’sSTUDENTserver self-serve website, which will enable them to download, at no charge, current and future versions of the software and provide them with access to training and technical support.

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You are invited to participate to the 4^th International Rail GIS Summit at UIC on May 16^th 12:30 – May 17^th16:30. Learn how other railways are currently using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and what are their plans for future. This two days Summit is a “once-a-year” opportunity to exchange ideas and make valuable contacts with professionals from railway organizations throughout Europe. The conference is free-of-charge.

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On behalf of Global Scan Technologies, we are delighted to invite you for its first remote sensing workshop under the title: “Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Image Processing”. We are looking forward to welcoming leading scientists, engineers and educators from diverse disciplines that make up the Geoscience and Remote Sensing community. This free workshop will provide insight into the latest developments and practical techniques of hyperspectral remote sensing and data processing. Hyperspectral remote sensing is an emerging, multidisciplinary field with diverse applications. We will be offering a world class technical program encompassing hyperspectral remote sensing and its processing techniques for advanced and improved understanding, classification, modeling, monitoring, and mapping of complex terrestrial agriculture, environmental and geological features. This free workshop will provide insight into the latest developments, practical techniques, and potential new business opportunities. Read More

Display devices have always been an integral part of the PC experience. Whether it is in the form of a desktop monitor, a notebook's embedded panel, or the touch screen of a PC tablet, display devices play a vital role in defining the user's visual experience. Connecting more display devices to existing systems has become increasingly more important. Whether it is for home use, allowing different display devices showing different applications or multimedia, more display devices means more possibilities. Or for corporate use, allowing the productivity per work station to increase drastically if more display devices can be used. Read More

Bureaucracy-free assistance in the event of an emergency – this is the aim of the 15 space agencies united within the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has been a member of this network since October 2010, and, on 16 April 2013, will take over as chair of the Charter for six months.

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 URISA is pleased to announce its Fourth GIS in Public Health Conference. The conference will take place in Miami, Florida, June 17-20, 2013 and is chaired by long-time program committee member, Jason K. Blackburn, PhD, Emerging Pathogens Institute & Department of Geography at the University of Florida. This biennial conference has been previously presented in New Orleans (2007), Providence (2009) and Atlanta (2011) and was established to provide an open and participatory forum for advancing the effective use of spatial information and geographic information system technologies across the domains of public health, healthcare and community health preparedness.The educational program was developed through a peer review of submissions received through a Call for Presentations. The broad conference theme for the 2013 event is: Geospatial tools for understanding health issues related to the environment, human population, and animal populations and the intersections of the three.

Preconference courses will be taught on Monday, June 17:

• An Overview of Open Source GIS Software
• Detecting Clusters of Adverse Health Outcomes using SaTScan™
• Geospatial Data Collection for Micro-Environments and Multiple Time Periods: The Use of Spatial Video

The conference is honored to welcome Mei-Po Kwan (Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) as the opening keynote speaker. She will address GIS Methods for Analyzing GPS Data: Applications in Neighborhood and Health Research. Read More

Area scan cameras are often the camera of choice for machine vision inspection, while line scan cameras are traditionally used for applications that require uninterrupted image capture, such as web inspection, or for applications that need large format imaging. While line scan cameras deliver the resolution, sensitivity and speed required for these applications, knowing when and how to select the right camera for a given inspection task can be confusing. Read More

The First International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment (RSCy 2013) will be held on 8 April 2013 in Paphos, Cyprus.  Geoinformation Science is an inter-disciplinary field that involves earth science, information science, and system science. It consists in gathering and analysing information on the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere and, more specifically, their formation, changes and interrelations. Remote sensing, which refers to the use of aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth by means of propagated signals, is one of the techniques used in geoinformation.  The Keynote Speakers and thought-provoking technical program will encourage the exchange of ideas and provide the foundation for future collaboration and innovation. All topics related to Remote Sensing and Geo-information of Environment will be discussed. Read More

Radar specialist Dr. John Walsh passed away in February after a brief illness and a number of gatherings have been organized to honour him. There was a Memorial Reception with his colleagues at Memorial University, northern radar work and other colleagues and friends on April 8. A Memorial Tea for Walsh will be held at the University Club at the University of Victoria on April 25 Read More

The touchless sensing and gesture recognition technologies enable a user to interact with a device to perform a specific task sans the need of touching it.The touchless sensing can be divided into two broad markets based on the applications, namely touchless sanitary equipment and touchless biometric market. The report deals with the analysis of all the technologies of the above-mentioned broad markets and the gesture recognition market. The total touchless sensing and gesture recognition market is expected to reach $15.02 billion by 2018 at a double digit CAGR from 2013 till 2018. The market value in 2012 was approximately $2 billion.

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This session will focus on Aerial/Terrestrial surveys that fuse Oblique Imagery and Lidar with ArcGIS. Techniques will be covered to produce base maps, City Engine 3D models, and explore best practices for utilizing ArcGIS Web scenes to share via cloud technology.

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