Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
International architects Zaha Hadid, whose projects include the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, will be focusing on Business Information Modelling (BIM) good practice at a knowledge-sharing forum organised by Océ UK in London on 15 September from 8.30 to 11am.‘Utilising BIM’ is the theme of the free-to-attend event for architects at Océ’s London
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Rotterdam’s public transport company RET is planning to use facial recognition technology to make sure people who have been banned from using the city’s trams don’t sneak on anyway, local television station RTV Rijnmond reports. RET is planning to install cameras in every compartment on the tram 2 route to test the system. Read More
Monday, September 12th, 2011
In 2007 I was in Hobart, Tasmania at the Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference, and I was fascinated to hear a presentation by Tim Barker and Neale Hooper of the Government of Queensland called Open Content Licensing of Government Information – Creating a Spatial Information Creative Commons (A legal platform to support inter-jurisdictional sharing of data), outlining
Monday, September 12th, 2011
When a series of images acquired with the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X – operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) – are combined into a sequence, the result is truly amazing; even gas storage tanks can have an eventful life of their own. The position of their covers reveals
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Acision announced the first details of its Cloud Services Delivery Model, with solutions planned to be made available from October. Acision’s new approach to deploying Software as a Service (SaaS) will enable mobile operators to quickly and cost effectively respond to rapidly changing technology developments and end user preferences, by having the ability to access and
Monday, September 12th, 2011
A three-year series of pole-to-pole research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere, scientists announced today. The far-reaching field project, known as HIPPO, is enabling researchers to generate the first detailed mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Sheffield shines out as the soar-away winner of the solar stakes in the UK, with more solar power generation added in the city per household than in any other British city, according to a league table published on Monday. Northern cities have been the unexpected winners from the boom in renewable energy that has followed
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Megha-Tropiques, the novel Indo-French climate satellite, is planned for launch on October 12. The 1,000-kg satellite – a combination of the Sanskrit ‘megha’ or cloud and the French word for the tropics – will give a better understanding of the crucial convection systems, humidity in the tropics, said ISRO’s Chairman, Dr K. Radhakrishnan. Read More
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Heard of e-governance, e-commerce, e-banking, e–learning: but many of us might not be knowing G-governance. “G-governance” or good governance is a relatively new term that is often used to describe the desired objective of a nation-state’s political development. The principles of good governance, however, are not new. Good governance is, in short, efficient administrative set-up
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges provides a much needed survey reflecting upon recent institutional experience yielding analysis that concludes that there exists financially rigorous rationale to justify conservation of biodiversity for economic reasons, above and beyond the usual rationale of conservation only for biodiversity, spiritual or ethical reasons.
