Using location-based information, public safety and security organizations will increase their situational awareness by better understanding incidents–and their management options.
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Earth Observation essential for geohazard mitigation
More than 250 scientists from around the world gathered for a five-day workshop at ESA's Earth Observation Centre in Frascati.
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New Environmental Management System Helps Responders Clean Up Spills
The Environmental Emergencies Branch has created a system'the Environmental Emergency Management System or "E2MS"'that capitalizes on the CGDI's vast reservoir of interoperable geographic data layers. By combining spatial-information management tools and technologies with spatial data and information, E2MS uses the CGDI to enable emergency organizations, federal government departments, and provincial emergency-measures agencies to respond more effectively to oil and chemical spills.
GEOIDE Market Intelligence Portal
A new section is now available on the GEOIDE website: the GEOIDE Market
Intelligence Portal (English only). This
section is opened to everyone (member and non member) who is interested of having the latest news from the geospatial industry,
From The Economist: The World on your Desktop
As the internet becomes intertwined with the real world, the resulting "geoweb" has many uses. Read The Economist's September 2007 report on the geoweb...