Friday, August 19th, 2011
The conference “Re-source” should help to accelerate the implementation of strategies and action programs and the sustainable use of natural resources internationally advanced. Experts and interested parties from academia, politics, government, industry and commerce, and NGOs from the three countries will present their ideas. In recent years, focused on measures to improve material and energy efficiency increased
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Russia said it had lost track of a newly-launched, multi-million-dollar telecommunications satellite on Thursday, the latest in a series of setbacks that have dogged its space industry. The $265-million Express AM-4 satellite, described by its makers as the most powerful satellite ever built in Europe, launched late on Wednesday aboard a Proton-M rocket from the Russian-leased launchpad
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Rogers Communications have launched a security system that lets home owners control appliances and thermostats remotely using their smartphones. The service was launched in Ontario on Wednesday by the vice-president and general manager of Rogers Smart Home Monitoring, Ian Pattinson. Read More
Friday, August 19th, 2011
GE Appliances & Lighting today announced the opening of a revolutionary new data center at its Louisville, Ky., Appliance Park headquarters. GE approached the design, construction and operation of this facility with the intent of reducing data center energy consumption and lowering environmental impact, while providing tremendous computing power to support major product and infrastructure
Friday, August 19th, 2011
About three years ago spatial data quality was the topic of the day. Everyone seemed to be talking about it. It was important, and seemed to be gathering momentum for a thrust into the direction of improved spatial data quality factors, how to assess them and go on. Suddenly it seems as if that period
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The Multi-scale Soil Information System (MEUSIS) can be a suitable framework for building a nested system of soil data that could facilitate interoperability through a common coordinate reference system, a unique grid coding database, a set of detailed and standardized metadata, and an open exchangeable format. In the context of INSPIRE Directive, MEUSIS may be
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Objective of the research is to define the magnitude of the Actual Soil Erosion Risk in the alpine area and linked it with a perspective of medium long terms in relation to climate change. The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) was applied to the whole alpine space. It allowed to produce, with a spatial
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Africa as a continent and more specifically Zimbabwe as a country, faces several developmental issues which research has shown can be managed and minimized through open access to spatial data. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) helps in the efficient use, management, manipulation and dissemination of spatial data for the benefit of communities and nations.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Innovyze announced that following a competitive review, the General Directorate for Water and Sewerage of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq, has elected to deploy multiple licenses of Innovyze’s InfoWater Suite, the industry’s premier ArcGIS-centric water supply and distribution modeling, management and optimization software.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Riots always happen when cities consider themselves to be at a high point in terms of their urban development,” says Dutch architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout, speaking to me from his home in Rotterdam. “We’ve studied riots in every decade since the 1960s, and every time you can see that the officials of the city felt
