Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing. We seek submissions for the ISW book, which cover unpublished research on the crossroad of Sensor Web and Geoprocessing. The idea for editing this book came up at the successful ISW workshop (http://purl.net/ifgi/isw2011) held at the AGILE 2011 conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Both, extended papers based on abstracts presented
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd. (MES) provides authoritative and expert advice to both the public and private sectors to help understand the impact of major industrial and construction activity on marine environments. To make the sharing of this information as straight forward as possible MES has purchased Publisher for ArcGIS to allow them to create GeoPDF
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
he Alaska Gas Pipeline announced today that its open season efforts have not resulted in the customer commitments necessary to continue work on its Alaska North Slope gas pipeline project, which has an overall estimated capital cost of $35 billion (2009 dollars). Denali will withdraw its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission pre-file application and, over the
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Department of Transport (DoT) in Abu Dhabi has won the Excellence Award in Geographic Information System (GIS) Implementation for the second successive time by GISTEC. The award was announced at GISWORX ’11, the 2011 GIS Workshops and Exhibition for Esri Users. This Excellence Award was given to the DoT for its work in Geographic Information Systems
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
AeroMetric completed the nation’s first ‘robust data collection’ on the Valley International Airport project in Harlingen, Texas, a 3-runway airport, located west of the Gulf of Mexico. A National Geodetic Survey (NGS) review confirmed the accuracy of the data, which is critical for flight operation safety. NGS acceptance opens the way forward for the creation of the first electronic Airport Layout Plan
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
This report documents the configuration, calibration and validation of the river water quality model for the mainstem of the NSR from Devon to the Alberta-Saskatchewan Border. The model represents hydrodynamics, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, organic carbon, nutrients, algal interactions and other parameters influenced by tributaries, municipal wastewater treatment plants, industrial facilities, combined with sewer overflows
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
3D Systems Corporation announced today that it entered into a distribution agreement for North America with voxeljet technology, GmbH, a leading provider of ultra high-speed 3D production printers for large patterns used for precision metal parts castings in a variety of transportation and healthcare applications. Separately, the company announced plans to install a VX800 large
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Risk preparedness for natural hazards in the face of climate change is a future task for Bavaria. A new website shows how natural hazards occur, and prevention is possible. The said Dr. Markus Soeder, Environment Minister , today at the official commissioning of the barrier Jenbach in Bad Aibling, Rosenheim. “Natural hazards will increase even further due to climate change –
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Bombardier Transportation has signed a contract with Saudi Binladin Group, to design, build, operate and maintain an automated people mover system for the King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) Development Project in Jeddah, Arabia. The total value of the contract is $96 million (68 million euros). Saudi Binladin Group is the contractor responsible for the design and construction
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
The calm Gulf of Finland bathes in the spring sun in Sandöfjärden off Raseborg in the southwest of Finland. The water looks clear at the surface, but the bottom area is almost dead: the only living creatures there are bacteria. Ari Honkonen and Asko Mustonen of Vesi-Eko as well as farmerAarre Arrajoki are attaching cables to an oxygenator, which is to pump
