Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Satellite navigation systems maker TomTom said on Tuesday it had booked a 31% drop in sales in the final quarter of 2011, booking net profit of €12m, compared with €52m in the year-earlier period. In particular, consumer sales of its satnav systems were down 40% in the fourth quarter and 28% over the full year, in
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
GIS is helping to tell the story of Gareth Morgan’s ‘Our Far South’ expedition to Antarctica. The objective of the expedition is to raise New Zealander’s awareness of the importance of the area between Stewart Island and the South Pole. This includes highlighting the reasons why this area is so valuable, the threats it is
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Lumion is all about creating great movies with zero effort. With Lumion 2.1 you can now visualise indoor scenes. The enhanced GPU render engine can render more detailed materials and rapidly renders scenes containing many lights. Amazing new technology allows users to place and move lights in real-time like magic. Read More
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Cubic Corporation has been awarded a new five-year contract to continue its support of force modernization in Lithuania. This U.S. funded Foreign Military Sales effort is a continuation of Cubic’s constructive simulation and force modernization programs in Lithuania, with a primary task being the development of a modern Combat Training Center.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
CoPilot GPS will let users download maps onto their iOS device to use, even when they’re not connected to a network. The app will offer mapping capabilities, including millions of pre-installed points of interest, as well as route-planning capabilities. To that end, CoPilot GPS will deliver many of the same features found in ALK’s CoPilot Live
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
The Utah House of Representatives gave its approval to the first of multiple bills that would require the federal government to turn over land in Utah to the state or local governments. The House gave the nod to Rep. Ken Sumsion’s House Bill 511 which would empower counties and cities to use eminent domain to gain
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
A document setting out the objectives of a Strategic Plan for Environment and Development, to replace the 20-year-old Structure Plan, was unveiled for public consultation today. The Minister for Tourism and the Environment, Mario de Marco said the plan focused more on redevelopment of already used land, and the de-coupling of development and economic growth. Read
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing 3-D imaging lidar as a navigation aid for deep-space exploration. Lidar operates in the same fashion as radar but with shorter wavelengths since it uses light rather than radio waves. A pulsed laser beam scans targets by measuring the time it takes for the light to bounce back;
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Department of Cadastre of Real Estate creates geometric plans, documents of land boundaries setting-out, land development projects, registers of renewed registration of lands, vectorisation and digitising of maps, documents for property rights settlement of construction works. Read More
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Climate change is one of the major present-day priorities. Business houses have begun to acknowledge the phenomenon. They are concerned about climate change, and the systemic and sector-specific risks associated with it. Owing to the high levels of risk faced by countries such as India, the immediate need to shift to a low carbon growth path
