WEM needs assessment report now available

An extensive report created by ESRI for Wisconsin Emergency Management outlines many isues that apply to other organizations and agencies in Wisconsin.

Coastal LiDAR coming to Wisconsin

Army Corps of Engineers to begin collecting data in May 2006

Retiring UW professors to be honored

Symposium and dinner banquet to be held May 20th

Wisconsin receives NSDI grant for GIS council

Award will examine the implementation of a statewide GIS coordinating council

Survey says…

The results are in from a recent SCO services survey. What did we find out?

Is Geocaching in your future?

Getting outdoors for some quality family time sounds like a great excuse for plunking down a couple hundred dollars on the latest GPS gear.

Lets put geography back in geospatial

I don’t know about you, but I always have a hard time explaining to friends and neighbors what I do for a living. Why is it so hard to for me to remember that geography is fun?!

Fun With GPS

Donald Cooke’s book Fun with GPS is best summed up this way: a guy dreams up wacky uses for GPS, then tells the rest of us how he did it.

Landsat 5 Resumes Operations

Landsat 5 imaging operations were suspended in November of 2005 as a result of difficulties with power delivered by the solar array drive. These technical difficulties have been resolved and imaging has resumed. While USGS …

GIS Day Expo 2005 at UW-Madison

On November 16th the UW-Madison Department of Geography sponsored the third-annual GIS Day Expo at the UW Memorial Union.