Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Huntingdonshire District Council has gone live with a new online mapping and information service supplied by Astun Technology. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ enables local residents to use their postcode or part address to find information about council services, and to locate facilities on maps. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ provides information about councillors, next bin collections, historic and new planning applications in
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The purpose of TdhGIS is to perform spatial analysis of data based on vector defined geometric data. This may include : Allocating point data to polygons. (e.g. assigning structures to hydrological basins). Allocating polygon data to other polygons. (e.g. allocating population data by census block to political boundaries). Creating thiessen polygons (e.g. for all hospitals within a state, define
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The role of a facilitator is to provide technical guidance and assist in the organisation of the data specification activities that take place in one of the Thematic Working Groups, while the editor prepares the UML schema and documents the data specifications according to the agreed pre-defined format. More information on the terms of reference
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
No one denies that all living organisms need food in order to survive, but not everyone draws an immediate connection between food and social, economic and environmental security. Food security is, in fact, something that the European Union takes very seriously. A new project, Plant and Food Security (or PLANTFOODSEC), is an initiative of the
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Research Councils UK (RCUK), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Universities UK (UUK) today (21 July) issued a joint statement on impact. The statement recognises the range of benefits that come from excellent research and states a commitment to continue working together to build on that excellence. RCUK, HEFCE and UUK have for
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) recently reached a new official position on “Combined Mobility”. The document shows how traditional public transport can overcome some of its shortcomings and offer high flexibility and convenience for meet mobility demand of modern fellow citizens: by building up the so-called “sustainable mobility alliance” with car-sharing, cycling and
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
This article describes how Lidar (Laser or Light Detection and Ranging) can be used to collect data about coastal habitats. The article gives an introduction of the measurement principle and also explains how to plan for a Lidar-survey. More information about the conversion of collected data and the output of Lidar can be found in
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The crater of the Chilean volcano Puyehue displays a striking, circular outline in this image from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite – so this was not the culprit when a volcano in the southern Andes erupted on 4 June 2011. Instead, as the images from the German
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
This study used an affordable ground-based portable LiDAR system to provide an understanding of the structural differences between old-growth and secondary-growth Southeastern pine. It provided insight into the strengths and weaknesses in the structural determination of portable systems in contrast to airborne LiDAR systems. Portable LiDAR height profiles and derived metrics and indices (e.g., canopy
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Mika and Rafel Serrano are not your typical farmers. They own just a small piece of land and no livestock at all, but they are still able to live off their farm. The secret to success for many small growers like the Serranos is the sale of produce directly to consumers, without letting intermediary vendors
