Friday, September 30th, 2011
Seen as ideal for shallow water wind turbine construction work, four specially designed leaner versions of the Saab Seaeye Cougar XT ROV have been ordered by Pommec, the leading Netherlands-based technology provider to the diving industry. Custom designed to be both low profile and powerful enough to handle the strong currents found in the shallow waters
Friday, September 30th, 2011
The advent of Web 2.0 made available techonologies and services such as blogs, social networking, Wikis and RSS/XML feeds that allowed many users to the create their own content and share it through simple and freely available tools. The shift to a user-generated content paradigm on the web fostered changes in sharing and analyzing geographic
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Amberg Geotechnics, a new software application unveiled at the Intergeo exhibition in Nuremberg on 27–29 September 2011, provides a host of benefits for underground construction practitioners. This highly efficient and user-friendly surveying tool permits quick and cost-effective identification of high-risk areas in underground construction projects.
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Worries of a potential volcanic eruption have prompted Spanish authorities to evacuate residents and tourists on one of the Canary Islands. Thousands of tiny tremors have recently intensified, with the biggest one reaching a magnitude of 3.4, they said. The seismic activity indicates magma on the move. Read More
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Nokia today announced plans to take additional actions to align its workforce and operations. The measures support both the execution of the company’s strategy and the savings target the company announced earlier this year, and also target to bring efficiencies and speed to the organization. Earlier this year, Nokia announced changes primarily focused on aligning its
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Getmapping which has been pioneering WMS (Web Mapping Service) services in Britain is now the force behind the AeroGRID consortium’s provision of Pan-European Imagery via WMS. AeroGRID’s WMS imagery hosted by Getmapping now includes over 2 million km² of 12.5cm to 50cm resolution imagery of Europe including the whole of Benelux, Britain, France, Germany, Spain,
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Discover specific solutions for your businesses. Discover and test interactive solutions and tools (virtual reality and augmented reality solutions, projection systems, new tactile and interactive interfaces, etc.) to design and promote your products or services irrespective of your sector of activity (industry, urban planning, communication and marketing, museography, etc.). Read More
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Can digital technologies improve the eco-design of buildings? Environmental legislative constraints increasingly require architects to turn to environmentally conscious and sustainable designs for buildings. Improving town management using 3D. Town management involves comparing complex problems for which an increasing number of digital mock-ups have appeared over the last few years. Read More
Friday, September 30th, 2011
The workshop will be held on 5th October 2011 in picturesque premises of the Kozel Castle which is very close to the Pilsen city, Czech Republic and is organized as a pre-conference workshop of the Geomatics in projects 2011 conference at 6th October 2011. The joint workshop will be held in English. You can register by sending an email on: kjanecka (at) kma.zcu.cz
Friday, September 30th, 2011
NDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, has completed a rigorous two year analysis into GeoVisionary and has given the system the official go-ahead. GeoVisionary will act as an umbrella 3D visualisation system for data from various sources; principally Andra’s Geo database, which holds samples and geoscientific data and SAGD, a database which holds
