Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Submissions are currently being sought from young New Zealand designers, architects and engineers for two travel scholarships aimed at supporting the design and reconstruction of quake-ravaged Christchurch. The British Council Christchurch Scholarships, in partnership with Massey University, were launched late last year as a way of supporting Christchurch’s redesign and positively transform the living and working
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Whether navigating with GPS, or find a card on the Internet: Using spatial data more and more people go into their private lives. It is therefore logical that the annual “FOSSGIS” conference on 20 to 22 March in Dessau, not only is open to professionals who deal professionally with geographic information systems (GIS), but also interested laymen. Theme of
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Electronics giant Philips is planning to sell its High Tech Campus in Eindhoven to private investor Marcel Boekhoorn, the Telegraaf reports on Monday, citing sources in the property sector. The paper says Boekhoorn is planning to take over the business park for some €450m and the deal has almost been finalised. Boekhoorn currently owns free newspaper
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
When poor nations become richer, their appetite for natural resources grows. Sustainability experts say policymakers meeting in Rio de Janiero this year need to think about just how much growth Earth can support. Almost a billion people around the world are starving, while another billion suffer health problems linked to overeating. Farming subsidies in rich countries
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Based on geographic coordinates which are input to a GPS device, the group is led to certain waypoints. Once there, it means staying eyes. This notice must be somewhere a next. But where? And how does it look? “If a stone pile in the woods is going, attentive. Is off to the not nature here, “says Corinn. And then the discovery between
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
“Since we started in January at CES 2012, the first time vorführten the contribution of our innovative MEMS sensors for this unique CSR positioning technology and platform, we have requests from several of our Tier One customers receive the interest in this combination solution expressed, “Fabio Pasolini, general manager explained the division at STMicroelectronics MEMS
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Steve Riley, technical leader, office of the chief technology officer (CTO) at Riverbed Technology, will provide the Keynote Address at this year’s Esri Developer Summit. Riley’s keynote, entitled In the Cloud, Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong, will seek to dispel myths and misunderstandings about the cloud and give a fresh perspective on geospatial
Monday, March 5th, 2012
The use of 3D in urban planning, digital cities and 3D city model development is growing rapidly. Planners are interested to connect databases with city information to these 3D visualizations. Esri has been developing the CityEngine software that provides a 3D visualization connection to these databases. 3D Visualization World editor Jeff Thurston recently interviewed Gert
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Global geoinformation technologies and first of all Earth remote sensing from space, satellite-based navigation and Internet geoportals have certainly considerably changed and keep on changing our lives. A certain turnaround in the minds of people deserves mentioning: in the new world of open data it is easier to feel comfort and to actually become not
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Graziers throughout north and central Queensland will soon be able to learn more about land management with an online training program. The program will be trialled in the coming months and rolled out across the state from June. Beef extension officer Jane Hamilton, from the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI), says the internet is
