Monday, August 1st, 2011
Incomplete and inaccurate geospatial information can lead to delays in enforcing laws, subsequently triggering conflicts, a lawmaker says. “We have laws that require government regulations on geospatial mapping,” Daryatmo Mardiyanto from the House of Representatives’ Commission VII said Thursday in Bandung at a seminar and workshop on revitalizing geospatial information management at the Bandung Institute of
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Microsoft is partnering with Dell to build a green data centre that will power Bing Maps‘ suite of geospatial imaging applications. The centre is located on the grounds of a Microsoft facility in Boulder, Colorado. Dell claims that the new data centre is highly efficient in energy consumption, thanks to a cooling system that uses
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Applying Geographic Information Systems, known as GIS – as well as software previously used to examine human illness – University of Florida scientists have been able to find locations where clusters of diseased coral exist. In the last 30 years, more than 90 percent of the reef-building coral responsible for maintaining major marine habitats and providing
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Around August 1 a five-man team led by seasoned adventurer Jock Wishart will depart from Resolute Bay, Canada in an attempt to row 724 km (450 miles) to the magnetic North Pole. Throughout the course of the voyage members of the public can track the team online. Known as Row to the Pole, the expedition
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
ITT Corp.’s Rochester-based geospatial systems division and Massachusetts-based Mercury Computer Systems Inc. have signed an agreement that will see the two develop technology for streaming video surveillance and other imagery taken by unmanned aerial drones to military personnel. The companies did not announce a time frame for the joint effort. Read More
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Russian space agency Roscosmos said Friday it plans to launch two satellites and a space freighter in August. The Express-AM4 satellite will be launched Aug 18 on board a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur Space Centre in Kazakhstan. A Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft will be launched from Baikonur to the International Space Station Aug 24 on
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
With the consultation period for HS2 – the plan to create a high-speed rail link between London and the North – having ended on Friday, the Government is now aware of the widespread resistance to the scheme. Yet it insists that it will move forward, because of the advantages to business and the spur to
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
This dataset was collected during the summer of 2008 by Sanborn on behalf of the Teton Conservation District. The project mapped 141 square miles of area within the Snake River Range and the Teton National Forest. The area covered is west of the Snake River to the Bridger-Teton National Forest boundary, and from Teton Village
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
The Atlanta Regional Commission has approved a 30-year plan to spend more than $60 billion on transportation projects across the metro Atlanta area. The approval on Wednesday of the $60.9 billion Plan 2040 project was an update to a transportation list that was last approved by the commission in 2007. It is not related to
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
National Technical Systems, Inc. a leading provider of engineering services, announced today that it is the first lab that has been qualified by the ZigBee Alliance to offer certification testing of the enhanced version of ZigBee Smart Energy version 1.1 standard. Additionally, NTS has also released an update to its ZigBee Smart Energy test harness
