Friday, August 5th, 2011
Land surveyors have long promoted the hiring of a land surveyor prior to purchasing property. It provides buyers with the assurance that what they are paying for is what they are getting. It supports the transaction legally. Geographic Information Systems are in many organizations today. They are used as strategic business tools that enable up-to-date
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
As per report, ThyssenKrupp, French naval shipyard DCNS and the two governments plan to hold talks after the summer break to revive the idea of creating a pan-European military shipbuilding alliance. ThyssenKrupp said that its marine systems division was not holding any talks currently with DCNS on the merger of their marine shipbuilding operations. It added
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies is proud to announce the launch of Orbit GIS X, the new generation desktop GIS. Orbit GT today announces the availability of Orbit GIS X. Totally reworked, Orbit GIS X is the new engine for the Orbit GT portfolio. Being specialized in government, public safety and mapping industry solutions, the release of Orbit GIS X
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
NYSE Euronext announced today that it is making the entire company carbon neutral. Building on its existing energy efficiency and conservation efforts, the company announced today that it has purchased renewable-energy certificates and carbon offsets that together neutralize the remaining environmental impact of the company’s global operations, making it the only global exchange operator and
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has entrusted a Canadian company with managing a vast section of its forest, including containing deforestation, the environment ministry has announced. Ecosystem Restoration Associates (ERA) will handle a project covering nearly 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) of woodlands in the Mai-Ndombe forest, in western Bandundu province, the statement said. The project is
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
There’s not much business in making gadgets for archaeologists, but that has not stopped the modern day Indiana Jones types from adapting the tools of other trades for their painstaking explorations of ancient cities, battlefields and burial grounds. Their latest triumph comes from hacking Microsoft’s Kinect gaming device to create a handheld 3-D scanner capable
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Australia laid out a vision Thursday to join the handful of countries with high-speed rail lines, saying the up to 108 billion Australian dollars (US$116.16 billion) project in its eastern states could ease bottlenecks on its transport network as its population surges. The federal government said the rail link would be capable of carrying 54 million
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
GE has signed a deal to provide 228 wind turbines and the accompanying operations and maintenance services for Wind Capital Group’s projects in Oklahoma and Kansas. This pair of projects will provide more than 350 megawatts of reliable, clean renewable energy for the Midwestern US and create jobs and economic stimulus for local landowners and
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Measurement technology group Hexagon AB said on Thursday a slowdown in rail investments in China had hit its second quarter sales, sending its shares sharply lower. Shares in Hexagon which sells products under brands such as Leica Geosystems as well as its own name, fell 11.76 percent by 1130 GMT. Geosystems, Hexagon’s largest business area,
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
In the Chinese weather satellite program, the first two research and experiment satellites FengYun-3A (FY-3A) and FengYun-3B (FY-3B) were successfully launched into orbit on May 27, 2008 and November 5, 2010, respectively, and the remaining five operational satellites will be launched once every two years. FY-3A/B satellites cover the mid-morning and afternoon orbits. The following
