Friday, July 8th, 2011
Bulgaria’s Parliament has approved at second reading the founding of a State Company “Strategic Infrastructure Projects”, a mega-structure to be in charge of the construction of three largely neglected highway projects. The new body created with adopted amendments to the Roads Act will seek to accelerate the construction of “strategic infrastructure projects”, namely the Struma Highway (running from
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The Treasury should ringfence money from fuel duty to cut rising public transport fares in a bid to rebuild trust in green taxes, MPs urged on Thursday. The public has lost trust in green taxation because the Treasury appears to use it as a revenue-raiser rather than an effort to reduce pollution, the environmental audit committee
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Three-dimensional viewing is advancing with the development of glass-free, 3D visualization. Mobile phones and televisions are now equipped with the technology and it won’t be long until we see 3D in mainstream geospatial applications. This innovation will expand across many disciplines including surveying, GIS, CAD and visualisation applications. In doing so, the nature of how
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
After the successful launch of BlomWEB Viewer, Blom’s front-end web application for its online geoserver platforms BlomURBEX and BlomURBEX 3D, version 2.0 launches with enhanced features and a collection of new functionalities, tools and datasets. BlomWEB Viewer provides a complete showcase of BlomURBEX and BlomURBEX 3D capabilities in terms of functionality and available datasets, including access
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
ProQuest’s peer-reviewed, open access e-journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP) is introducing a new data discovery tool to its Researcher’s Toolkit that enables users to search more than 3,000 records containing information on tens of thousands of public datasets from the U.S. federal government via data.gov. Now, the data, which is the output of more
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Government agencies, civic organizations, and policy makers can access vast amounts of data and instant reports and maps through Esri Community Analyst, a cloud-based GIS application. This new tool includes demographic, health, economic, education, and business data variables to help users develop informed strategies for policy creation and critical resource allocation.
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
MathWorks today announced that Simulink Design Verifier now includes Polyspace analysis technology for automated error detection in Simulink models. Simulink Design Verifier 2.0 integrates Polyspace error detection with existing property proving and test generation capabilities to help reduce the time required to find and fix the root cause of design errors, decreasing the overall cost
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Providence Resources, the Irish exploration company that has begun the biggest ever exploration programme in Irish waters, said it has completed the first three-dimensional seismic survey of the Barryroe area off the south coast. Providence will examine information from that survey to reach a conclusion on whether there is oil in the area. The Barryroe prospect
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Rutland County Council is set to dramatically increase efficiency with a new gazetteer management system from Aligned Assets. Symphony iManage, the gazetteer management system in use by over 100 sites across the public sector, will be used by Rutland County Council for the management of their Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG), Local Street Gazetteer (LSG)
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
TGS will commence acquisition of a new 3D multi-client survey which covers 1,100 km2 over the Magnus Basin, including the southwest to northeast striking “End of the World” fault. TGS will also reprocess approximately 6,500 km2 of 3D seismic data in the same area to build a combined project of 7,600 km2. The new seismic data will be
