Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
1Spatial announced that their long-term, strategic relationship with IGN France has been strengthened further with the French national mapping agency widening their use of 1Spatial’s Radius Clarity technology.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The Climate Challenge Fund is the Scottish Government’s major communities and climate change programme. This review investigated the impacts and success factors of 21 projects. Largely, the review found that projects were making a difference locally – delivering food growing spaces, providing home insulation, encouraging changes in energy behaviours. Summary of the Review is available and Report
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Some GPS-related news. The Japanese government – with the the assistance of private firms – is ramping up research on a Japanese version of the Global Positioning System in a bid to turn satellite-based technologies into a key export, the Nikkeireports. Plans are afoot to conduct joint reserach and development on this – nine firms and two
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Application of space imaging possibilities in APEC economies needs to be extended in the near future. Such was the conclusion of the participants of the international conference “Application of Satellite Data for Sustainable Fishery Support in APEC” (June 10, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia). The conference was attended by specialists of eight economies of the Asian-Pacific Ocean
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Freescale Semiconductor introduces a new high-precision pressure sensor for altitude detection designed to help users further leverage advanced navigation capabilities and emerging location-based services such as GPS assist and e911. The Freescale Xtrinsic MPL3115A2 pressure sensor, based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, complements the accelerometers and magnetometers in the Xtrinsic portfolio to meet the growing
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Vertica, an HP Company announced availability of Vertica 5.0, the latest version of the Vertica Analytics Platform, which offers greatly improved flexibility and real-time performance for customers’ most demanding business intelligence and analytic workloads.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
“Sweden wants to highlight the strong impact that black carbon, ozone and methane have on the environment alongside long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. A reduction could produce the necessary rapid effects required to assist the climate,” says Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren. SLCFs only exist for a short time in the atmosphere, but
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Nokia today announced that Michael Halbherr has been appointed executive vice president to spearhead Nokia’s revised mission in mobile and location-based services. Effective July 1, 2011, Michael Halbherr will become a member of the Nokia Leadership Team, reporting to CEO Stephen Elop.
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
After reconstructing sea level patterns over the last 2,000 years for the first time ever, researchers have found that the dawn of the industrial age initiated an unprecedented rise in waters. But critics complain the study is too narrow. Read More
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
atlasFX is an innovative map publishing solution for ArcGIS Server. Creating tangible flex based online maps hast just become easier. Just drag & drop your map service using atlasFX as the central configuration tool. Within minutes you can create different online maps for different needs and different audiences. No programming required. Read More
