Thursday, October 13th, 2011
This book presents information about climate adaptation and flood risk scenarios for coastal cities. Jakarta, Rotterdam and New York are selected for investigation. The book considers areas that are not adjacent to coastal areas that contribute to flood risk impacts such as drought and temperature changes. The authors wonder if new infrastructure can be designed
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
The goal of the Alpine Space Project “ALPSTAR, Toward Carbon Neutral Alps – Make Best Practice Minimum Standard”, is to achieve climate neutrality in the Alps by 2050. At the initial conference on 27th and 28th October 2011 in Chambéry participants will discuss the policy requirements on energy, transport and the economy in order to
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Europa Technologies has today announced an extension of its popular viaEuropa hosted map service to support AddressBase – the new definitive spatial address data for England and Wales. The announcement means the geo solutions provider is the first Ordnance Survey licensed partner to utilise AddressBase in a cartographic capacity since its launch on 30 September 2011. viaEuropa
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Before renewable utilities build offshore wind farms, engineers must scrutinize the wind field at a proposed site using light detection and ranging (lidar) systems — an optical remote-sensing technology that illuminates a target with pulses from a laser. To overcome limitations in the current standard lidar systems that make measurements of vertical wind profiles, Dr. Herrington from the Stevens
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Real-Draw seamlessly combines vector tools with the rich look of pixel based images and innovative natural paint techniques into a single graphics editor. Version 5 will change the way you think about vector and bitmap graphic once again with natural paint styles, liquid shape and other innovations that you had not seen elsewhere. Read More
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Broader and improved access to satellite data is boosting the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. The aim of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme is to provide accurate, timely and easily accessible information. This will improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and support
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Environment Systems has won a contract to carry out a study of the condition of the Georgia Rangelands using satellite imagery and its own established remote sensing expertise. The study is being undertaken under the Alliances Programme run by Mercy Corps and funded by the the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The programme is
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
The Homes and Communities Agency will have a key role to play in Government plans to release enough public land to build up to 100,000 new homes by 2015, the Agency’s chief executive Pat Ritchie said today. Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced that four central Government departments – Health, Defence, DEFRA and Transport – have
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Cadenza is a platform for comprehensive reporting and analysis of factual and spatial data. Using Cadenza, all users can search for, analyse and visualise all kinds of data. Cadenza is not just a ready to use software product, but also serves as an integration framework for specific applications: Additional components can be easily integrated. Cadenza
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Policies for higher fuel efficiency in vehicles could contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of transportation, which is responsible for 23 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, according to experts at a meeting in the Mexican capital. Mexico emits some 709 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year, of which 60
