Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Yildirim Holding AS, a Turkish container port operator that owns 20 percent of France’s CMA CGM SA, has agreed to buy 50 percent of Malta Freeport Terminals from CMA CGM for €200 million, Bloomberg news agency has reported. The Malta port has a “seriously strategic location” for Yildirim’s port operations because of its proximity to France,
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Civil engineering, green architecture, urban planning, project and construction management, interior design, surveying, interior architecture and environmental science. China is determined to ensure proper management of its rapid urbanisation, much of which is being done by private enterprise. Its urban population has risen by 446 million over the past 30 years and is now increasing at
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
The Sierra Leone government has signed a $750 million (525 million euro) accord with energy company Joule Africa to complete a major hydro-electric power project, state television reported Monday. The Bumbuna hydro-electric project in the north of the country was launched in 1975 and stalled during Sierra Leone’s civil war, with phase one later completed in
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract for $2.5 million (CAD) with ScanEx Research and Development Centre (ScanEx) to provide RADARSAT data information to multiple ground stations in Russia over three years. The information will be used by Russian commercial, academic, and government users for applications that include mapping and emergency response.
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Geospatial data–including digital maps, imagery, and a variety of other digital files–are valuable resources for many different types of research, applications, and administrative functions. But unlike physical maps and documents, digital data can be difficult to reuse and preserve in the long run, because of changing software and formats, inadequate documentation, loss of media, and
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Operational satellite-based monitoring of floods on Russian rivers – “Floods-2011” project – is conducted by ScanEx RDC. Data of optical and radar imagery in direct reception mode are received by UniScan ground stations in Moscow, Magadan, Megion and Irkutsk. ScanEx specialists process the images and upload satellite and analysis data to the “Kosmosnimki-Floods” thematic geoportal.
Monday, May 30th, 2011
The ISPRS 2012 Congress in Melbourne, Australia, (25 August – 1 September) will introduce the use of electronic poster sessions to the ISPRS community. No longer will participants need to travel the world with cardboard tubes containing their paper poster. Read More
Monday, May 30th, 2011
WhereCamp EU 2001 was held in Berlin, Germany May 27-28 and was attended by an internaitonal audience that including a wide range of individuals involved in business, education and government geo-application development. Following previous WhereCamp approaches, the diverse and wide ranging topics for presentation were arranged and decided upon by attendees during each morning. The
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Topics include : – 3D city model requirements (based on analysis of applications) and presentations – 3D data acquisition and processing (based on CAD, LiDAR, image or video) – 3D city model reconstruction, building modelling (outdoor and indoor integration) and other aspects of aboveground and belowground city modelling
Monday, May 30th, 2011
The question of how to get 3D technology into every living room is set to dominate Computex this week, as the technology becomes cheaper and migrates from multiplex cinemas to ordinary homes. “In the past, TV display resolutions were low, so people could only watch 3D movies in theaters, where they also had to wear goggles,”
