Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Geosparc, the company commercially supporting the open source GIS application framework Geomajas, today announced that it will be present at Foss4G, the international conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, in Barcelona (Spain) from 6 till 9 September 2010 at Booth 12. At Foss4G the Company will demonstrate numerous applications built with Geomajas and officially
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
At FOSS4G, once closed the selection period we are glad to present our final program:http://2010.foss4g.org/program.php More than 700 people have already subscribed and the number is growing every day. If you have not subscribed yet, do it now: http://2010.foss4g.org/registration.php Some workshops are already sold out so don’t loose the chance to choose your favourite workshop. See you in Barcelona!
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
On Wednesday Sweden hosted a meeting of environment ministers on the Baltic Sea environment. Ministers and high-ranking representatives of all Baltic Sea states attended the seminar entitled “Building marine policy on best available knowledge”. This is the first meeting under the Swedish Chairmanship of Baltic Sea cooperation body HELCOM. Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Enosat, in collaboration with the Association gvSIG, is going to carry out an online course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing applied to vine-growing for the English-speaking community. This new edition of the course is launched in English, hoping to repeat the success of the previous edition in Spanish. The GIS software used for this
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Chiang Mai git4ndm congregation will provide an International forum to the professionals and researchers involved in application of Geoinformatics for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Preparedness such as Earthquake, Flood, Typhoon, Drought, Cyclone and Tsunami etc., The conference is also extended to have parallel track on Rehabilitation and Risk Management. Read More
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
“Urban sustainability – Learning from the best” is the title of a new catalogue of best practices produced by the European Commission on the basis of the 2010 and 2011 European Green Capital Awards. The aim of the catalogue is to share experiences and visions between European cities as well as inspire cities to introduce new
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
BALTIC IT&T – A total of 25 local and regional organisations from four European regions (Midi-Pyrénées, Navarra, Abruzzo and Latvia) took part in the various activities of the Geomatics Regional Information Society Initiative (GRISI) project – training, establishment of geomatic platforms, and preparation of more than 120 new geographic databases and 27 new Internet sites, with
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
NORWAY POST – The world’s first floating tidal power demonstration plant was last weekend deployed at sea near Harstad, Northern Norway, and is ready for testing. Production of electricity starts in October. This is an important milestone for us. From October the tidal power plant will produce clean, renewable energy from the Gimsøystraumen tidal current at Lofoten
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
BBC – Work to build a nuclear power plant at Bushehr began in 1974, but came to a halt in 1979 with the Islamic revolution. The project was revived in the 1990s with assistance from Russia, which is now preparing to begin loading nuclear fuel into the site’s first operational reactor. Satellite images show how the
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
Microsoft’s photogrammetry division—Vexcel Imaging, GmbH—today reported an impressive 30 sales for its UltraCam digital aerial camera systems during the company’s 2010 fiscal year (July 2009 – June 2010). In addition, 11 camera upgrades were sold. Details of the sales are as follows: 1) Large-format cameras—UltraCamX, UltraCamXp and UltraCamXp Wide Angle—totaled 18 and 2) Photogrammetric medium-format cameras—UltraCamL and
