Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
First ever rapid rail system for Africa opens the next phase of the system, featuring proven Bombardier Electrostar trains and Bombardier Cityflo 250 train control to bring high quality public transport to the Gauteng Province. Bombardier Transportation today celebrated the opening of the extended first phase of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The product provides Simple and rapid modeling of control points with many additional options including Curve and surface connection to function G3 (Flow), Handle in the graphics for easy modification of the geometry result, Integrated analysis for evaluation of results in almost all functions, Fast user-controlled generation of surface meshes and Functionality for sketching of
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) announced the availability of a new Building Information Modeling (BIM) content solution for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry, a new executive to lead the BIM team and a free downloadable Whitepaper, Becoming BIM-ready, available at www.catalogdatasolutions.com.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) announced on Tuesday (2) the report of its monitoring system Real Time Deforestation of the Amazon (Stop) for the month of June. Were detected 312.7 km ² of forest cutting in the region during the period – an area equivalent to 195 times the Ibirapuera Park. The number is 28.3%
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
When the City Planning Commission and City Council last year completed action on the first true master plan ever created for New Orleans’ long-term development, they were only halfway through the task of changing the way the city regulates land use. Still to come was the first real revision in decades of New Orleans’ comprehensive
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
With the wide acceptance of global warming as both real and potentially problematic, geoengineering — defined by the UK’s Royal Society as “the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change” — is currently experiencing a surge of interest. Despite the differentiated nature of the challenges, the greatest risk and uncertainty
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Polarcus Ltd. plans to begin soon a 3D multi-client seismic acquisition project over the Bjarmeland Platform in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. Industry pre-funding is supporting the survey, which could cover an area of 1,100 sq km (425 sq mi) by the time it is completed. The Polarcus Samur vessel is expected to take up to
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The new seismic data is being acquired by the PGS Ramform Viking towing 12 X 6,000 m with 75 m separation and utilizes PGS’ GeoStreamer Technology. Data acquisition will continue through Q3 2011 and the vessel will return in 2012 to complete the survey. Data processing will be performed by both TGS and PGS.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Home owners in high-risk flooding areas will have a harder time finding insurance as a result of the enormous damages inflicted by last month’s record-breaking thunderstorm. Certain areas are now being blacklisted by insurance companies who have received over 60,000 claims resulting from the three hour downpour. Read More
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a fundamental issue for the coordination of distributed entities and events. Nondeterministic latency, which may decrease the accuracy and precision of time synchronization can occur at any point in the network layers. Specially, random back-off by channel contention leads to a large uncertainty. In order to reduce
