This is a list of recent news. More information is available for members.
Astrium Expands in Greece (27 July 2010)Astrium has created the company Spot Infoterra Hellas. The Greek company Geomet, a long-standing partner of Spot image and Infoterra in Greece, will be merged into the new entity. Through this move, t... 3rd International Cartographic Conference on Cartography and GIS, 15-20 June, 2010 (22 July 2010)The conferences The 3rd ISDE Digital Earth Summit, 12-14 June, 2010 and
The 3rd International Cartographic Conference on Cartography and GIS, 15-20 June, 2010 have recently taken place.
All pap... OGC and AGISEE begin activities in South-East Europe (24 June 2010)Тhe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org ) and AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (http://www.agisee.org) have established a coope... AGISEE has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with GEOkomm Networks (02 June 2010)AGISEE has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding and partnership agreement with GEOkomm networks (http://www.geokomm.net). GEOkomm networks is a network for the geoinformation industry in the Germa... Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures (01 April 2010)AGISEE organizes a workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures. It will take place on 16 June in Nessebar, Bulgaria, as part of the 3rd Internation... AGISEE informs about INSPIRE (10 March 2010)AGISEE has launched web pages to inform their members about the European directive INSPIRE and its implications. More information is available on the member pages. South-East European INSPIRE interest group established (15 February 2010)A new group has been established in the INSPIRE forum, where everybody interested in INSPIRE and in the region of South-East Europe can exchange opinions, comments and experiences without becoming for... GEO Announces Call for Participation in GEOSS Pilot (06 February 2010)The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
(OGC®) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 3 of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) issue... OGC and World Meteorological Organization to Collaborate on Meteorology Standards (06 February 2010)The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance the development and use of geospatial standards. ... Haiti Relief Effort Resources Arranged by OGC Members (31 January 2010)Soon after the earthquake struck in Haiti, several OGC members set up online geospatial information resources to support rescue and relief efforts there. A special page on OGCnetwork (http://www.ogcne... GSDI 12 World Conference - Call for papers published (18 January 2010)GSDI 12 World Conference,
Singapore,
19-22 October 2010,
Theme: Realizing Spatially Enabled Societies:
http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi12
The Call for Papers may be found with all web links active at... Award ceremony celebrates outstanding European Spatial Data Infrastructures (09 December 2009) Twelve outstanding Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) from 9 European countries were highly commended at an International Conference in Turin on November 26th and 27th 2009 in Turin, Italy. The aim ... Feeling the way: Robotic device developed in MIT’s Touch Lab can help visually impaired people navigate around a virtual model of a real building. (23 November 2009)For many people, it has become routine to go online to check out a map before traveling to a new place. But for blind people, Google maps and other visual mapping applications are of little use. Now, ... International Geospatial Society Created (17 November 2009)The International Geospatial Society is a new venture of the GSDI Association to establish and support an international community of individual specialists and professionals with geospatial, spatial d... ESRI Brings GIS to the Public with Mapping for Everyone (26 October 2009)ESRI has launched a Web site that allows users to create maps for free with simple geographic information system (GIS) tools. Called Mapping for Everyone, the Web site includes tools that cover a rang... GSDI 11 World Conference and 3rd INSPIRE Conference (28 September 2009)Conference Report and links by Management Board Member Dr. Florian Petrescu. South East European SDI workshop (18 September 2009)AGISEE, in cooperation with SEERC, the South-East European Research Centre, have organised a workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures in the South Ea... Results of AECOO-1 Testbed Are Available Online as Streaming Video (03 August 2009)Wayland, MA, July 20, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)
and The buildingSMART alliance(TM) (bSa) announce that a streaming
webcast of the May 28 AECOO-1 webinar is available for review:
... A Brilliant Career (31 July 2009)Gottfried Konecny:
Professor Gottfried Konecny, one of the most respected names in photogrammetry, shares some reflections on his work and profession. He worked in post-war Neumarkt as a teenage ... New release of INSPIRE Site (30 July 2009)The new INSPIRE site has been designed with a fresh new look and has been updated with the most recent information.
We hope that you find the new structure clearer, and that simplified navigation a... AGISEE participates in the European funded project eSDI-NET+ (18 May 2009)ESDI-NET+ is a network for the promotion of cross-border dialogue and exchange of best practices on Spatial Data Infrastructures throughout Europe funded by the European Commission e-content+ Programm... GSDI Cookbook in a wiki environment. (23 April 2009)The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) has published the GSDI Cookbook in a wiki environment and would like to invite contributions to this resource from a broad community of geogra... European Parliament and Council reach agreement on spatial information directive (22 November 2006)The European Parliament and Council reached agreement last night on the contents of the proposed INSPIRE Directive, which aims to harmonise spatial information across Europe.
The directive will oblig... OGC Interoperability Day Highlights Successful Standards Applications (21 November 2006)At a recent Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) seminar, Dan Mandl of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center described how NASA is using the OGC's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards to simplify th... The World Bank and Climate Change (21 November 2006)The Bank's Investment Framework for Clean Energy and
Development estimates that developing countries need an annual
investment for electricity supply of US$165 billion through
2010, and an addition... Collaboration Agreement signed with GISIG, the "Geographic Information Systems International Group" (01 September 2005)Collaboration Agreement signed with GISIG, the "Geographic Information Systems International Group" AGISEE and GISIG are proud to announce that they wish...
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