^2012-10-22

The Earth Observation Community continues to develop toolboxes for accessing EUMETCast – GEONETCast data (satellite and environmental data and/or resulting products) and supporting their subsequent, efficient geospatial processing with ILWIS. A new toolbox specifically for Ethiopian data is now available and the existing AMESD-SADC (for South African data) and ISOD Toolboxes have been updated.

^2012-10-02

The Hannover Messe hosts this year's INTERGEO 2012, showcasing the latest trends and innovations in the GI market. From October 9 - 11, key market leaders and international decision makers from all sectors meet to present and discuss current technological trends and practical developments. 52°North takes advantage of this platform to present current work, to demonstrate its products and to discuss the potential of new technologies for practical applications.

^2012-09-21

The EO community is in the process of setting up an Earth Observation Capacity Building Portal to facilitate the dissemination of relevant capacity building materials developed to support the Earth Observation (EO) Community. GEONETCast users worldwide will be able to access course materials, project information, information about important events, and chat with other workshop participants, for example. Since the portal is under construction, only a selection of materials accompanying several AGRICAB GEONETCast workshops is currently online. More content will be made available in due course.

Please contact the EO community contact to receive a user name and password. The EO Community welcomes feedback from the user community.

^2012-09-20

The ILWIS community has released ILWIS 3.8.1. This version includes several new features, such access to OpenStreetMap layers and a tool for 3D analysis of spatial temporal events. Martin Schouwenburg presented a preview of these new features in the ILWIS blog. In addition, a number of bugs have been fixed. More details can be found in the Changelog.

Download:

• ILWIS 3.8.1 complete set up
• ILWIS 3.8.1 multiple files

^2012-08-27

The deadline for submissions for the 52°North Student Innovation Prize has been extended to November 15, 2012!

In other words, the competition is still open for students who have not yet completed a Master’s Degree or Diploma in Geoinformatics, Informatics or a related field. The prize awards an innovation which best demonstrates/describes the practical application of new technology/ideas in the field of Geoinformatics. The winning proposal will be officially announced at the beginning of 2013.

In case of any questions, please contact Ms. Ann Hitchcock ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
The current call is online.