^2012-05-10

Albert Remke, general manager of the 52°North R&D network and head of Innovation Management at the Esri Germany Group of companies, has been invited to join the advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Research in Visual Computing (Fraunhofer IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany. The Fraunhofer IGD is the world’s leading institute for applied research in Visual Computing. Research fields include, among others, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Virtual and Augmented Reality. The institute contributes to the Visual Computing research and develops prototypes, as well as turn-key solutions for early adopters in industry and public sector.

The Fraunhofer IGD belongs to the German Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research, which is the largest R&D association in Europe. It employs more than 20,000 people, mainly scientists and engineers.

^2011-04-24

The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science is known for its excellent series of workshops and conferences. The 10th Annual Summer Institute on Geographic Information Science comprises takes place in Florence (Firenze), Italy this summer and comprises the follwoing two sessions:

1. "Interoperability 360" (week June 3 to 9, 2012)
2. 10th Anniversary Conference “Spatial Information in Science and Society" (week July 1 to 7, 2012)

Registration for both events is now open and ends on May 7, 2012.

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^2011-04-24

52°North welcomes four students for this year’s Google Summer of Code^TM! Google Summer of Code^TM is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Stipend recipients receive $ 5.000,- for three months of software development. The student developers were chosen from thirty-five 52°North project applicants from around the world. As a first-time Google Summer of Code^TM mentoring organization, 52°North looks forward to mentoring a record four projects!

_2011-04-23

The ILWIS community is pleased to announce the release of ILWIS 3.8. This new ILWIS version represents a major upgrade from ILWIS 3.7. A comprehensive update of the graphics system has resulted in an extensive system of options for managing visualization and tuning it for visual analysis. In terms of functionality and ease of use, animations and 3D visualization have achieved similar usability to the regular 2D visualizations.

_2011-04-23

The Earth Observation Community announces new software for ILWIS – The AMSDEC-SADC Toolbox. This toolbox enables users to handle and process data gained from services developed within the AMESD SADC Thematic Action. The AMESD SADC-Thematic Action aims to empower SADC and its member states to sustainably manage their agricultural and environmental resources. It currently develops three information services to address decision needs for the South African Development Community (SADC) region:

• Agricultural Service: monitors the state of the crops and rangeland.
• Drought Service: monitors drought during the whole year and provides drought outlooks.
• Fire Service: provides a daily fire risk indication, detection and follow-up of active fires (in real time) and burnt area assessments during the fire season.