http://geoville.com/news Geoville breaking news Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:54:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The quality management system of GeoVille, which has first been implemented in 1999, is fully compliant with ISO 9001 standards and has been certified in 2010. The ISO 9001 certification has been carried out by Quality Austria - a member of the International Certification Network (IQNet). Download of the certificate ... http://geoville.com/news/2010/09/01/geoville-an-iso-9001-certified-company/ GeoVille has been awarded with an ESA Service Trial, which will provide EO derived land cover and land cover change maps with a focus on rice and rainfed crops for an area of more than 16,500 km² in south-east Madagascar. The service is directly driven by the requirements of UN-IFAD, ... http://geoville.com/news/2010/08/03/geoville-starts-service-production-in-south-eastern-madagascar-for-un-ifad-and-esa/ GeoVille Environmental Services features in the latest edition of “Letzeburger Gemengen”, a magazine for the communes in Luxem- bourg. In an interview the Managing Director Stefan Kleeschulte summarises the activities of GeoVille Environmental Services on the local market. Download of publication (0,7 MB; French): Cartography of the 21st century ... http://geoville.com/news/2010/07/15/cartography-of-the-21st-century/ As part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Services Element, the Global Monitoring for Food Security project of ESA aims to provide Earth Observation based services in order to assist stakeholders, nations and international organizations to better implement their policies towards sustainable development. GeoVille develops Soil Moisture ... http://geoville.com/news/2010/06/24/supporting-food-security-assessments/ From April 20th-22nd the LISA user group, consisting of thematic experts from all provinces, several federal agencies and the European Topic Center, met for an intensive 2 day workshop. On the first day, the users were updated on the results of the first production, the verification and good performance of ... http://geoville.com/news/2010/04/28/lisa-user-workshop-gumpenstein/ With the Bid 2 Win program Intermap® and GeoVille® helps professionals put their best foot forward when bidding engineering projects: they can use accurate and uniform NEXTMap® data for free in their bids. In the Bid 2 Win program, NEXTMap’s high-resolution map datasets – including digital elevation models and images for ... http://geoville.com/news/2010/01/29/nextmap%c2%ae-bid-2-win-pay-only-if-you-win/ Since establishment of the user specified data catolgue, design of the data model, technical verification by the scientific committee and delivery of the relevant geodata by the province and the state departments, the production of the first LISA prototypes has started on schedule in January 2010. For more information on ... http://geoville.com/news/2010/01/25/lisa-produktion-ist-angelaufen/ GeoVille’s study on urban development, natural hazards and climate change risks in Dakar, Senegal was featured within the World Development Report 2010 published by the World Bank. For further reference please click here. http://geoville.com/news/2009/11/23/geoville-work-contributes-to-world-banks-world-development-report-2010/ GeoVille features now an online data store providing simple search and ordering functionality for 3D data. The new online data store provides product information and enables the download of free sample data. NEXTMap ® Europe is a transnational, high-quality surface and terrain model with 5 m resolution (1m vertical ... http://geoville.com/news/2009/10/07/geoville-nextmap%c2%ae-online-data-store/ More than 30 representatives from public organisations - representing the future user group of LiSA - participated in the 2nd User Meeting in Salzburg. The 2 days meeting served to discuss LiSA class definitions, catalog specification and the object oriented data model. LiSA is financed under the Austrian Space Application Programme ... http://geoville.com/news/2009/09/29/lisa-land-information-system-austria-2nd-user-meeting/ One of the more recent customers of GeoVille Group is the Wolrd Bank. In house experts have developed dedicated, satellite derived geographic information products and successfully executed a number of natural risk and climate change adaption studies in Africa for this customer. The Austrian economy news magazine “Wirtschaftsblatt” has now ... http://geoville.com/news/2009/09/07/worldbank-projects-featured-in-economy-news-magazine-wirtschaftblatt/ Maps of soil sealing and land consumption - produced under the lead of GeoVille Group - were featured in the “GeoBerichte”-journal published by the State authority for Mining, Energy and Geology of Lower Saxony. Download of publication (3 MB): GeoBerichte 14 http://geoville.com/news/2009/08/03/geoville-featured-in-report-on-soil-sealing-in-lower-saxony/ After 2 years in business, GeoVille Luxembourg has moved to create space for expansion. The office is located within the industrial zone of Bombicht just 10 minutes from the international airport of Luxembourg. Please note our new address as of 1st August 2009. GeoVille Environmental Services sàrl 3, Z.I. Bombicht L-6947 Niederanven Luxembourg http://geoville.com/news/2009/08/03/new-geoville-office-luxembourg/ After 10 years of constant growth, GeoVille Austria has moved to create space for expansion. The brandnew office is located within a high-tech service center in the heart of Innsbruck’s business district. Please note our new address as of 29th June 2009. GeoVille GmbH Sparkassenplatz 2, 3rd floor A - 6020 Innsbruck Austria http://geoville.com/news/2009/06/25/brandnew-geoville-office-austria/ In order to overcome the shortcomings of existing LC/LU data sets for regional, national as well as European management and reporting requirements, the project Land Information System Austria (LISA) was initated by GeoVille together with other Austrian stakeholders. The objective of LISA is to achieve a consensus on a new ... http://geoville.com/news/2009/06/25/geoville-and-austrian-key-stakeholders-initiate-land-information-system-austria-lisa/ With its in-house developed processing chain RegioCover©, GeoVille now serves a nationwide digital land use map, termed Regiomap Austria, with an unsurpassed price-quality ratio. Regiomap Austria was produced using an object oriented image analysis and interpretation approach based on 2007-2009 15m TERRA ASTER satellite data. The resulting digital land use ... http://geoville.com/news/2009/06/25/with-regiomap-austria-geoville-provides-a-new-nationwide-land-use-map-for-the-telecom-industry/ GeoVille Environmental Services signed a framework contract with the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the provision of geographic data. The framework agreement has a duration of 4 years and includes the provision of data licenses to EEA as well as the provision of data manipulation services. http://geoville.com/news/2009/06/18/geoville-luxembourg-signs-framework-contract-with-eea/ GeoVille Environmental Services signs a Value Added Reseller agreement with Eurogeographics. Through this agreement GeoVille will be able to offer a wide selection of pan-European harmonised digital topographic and administrative data ranging from scale of 1:100.000 to 1:1.000.000. http://geoville.com/news/2009/06/18/geoville-luxembourg-reseller-of-eurogeographics-data/ GeoVille takes its responsibility for the environment serious and has offset its 2008 emissions by investing in a Verified Emission Reductions (VER’s) windpark project in Turkey. To reduce emissions at the source most GeoVille employees use public transport to commute to work. Certificate http://geoville.com/news/2009/03/25/geoville-a-co2-neutral-company-3/ At this years GeoConvent, Austria’s prime geoinformation event for the industry and governmental sector, Dr.Hoffmann, CEO of GeoVille Group and invited keynote speaker, provided an overview of the current GMES status to Austrian stakeholders. GeoVille also featured a tradeshow booth promoting NEXTmap and TerraSAR-X products as well as workshop ... http://geoville.com/news/2009/03/05/introducing-eo-products-and-applications-to-austrian-stakeholders/