Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Expecting the new 2011 imagery season ScanEx RDC starts to collect orders to create the imagery tasking plan with respect to SPOT 4/5 and FORMOSAT-2 satellites. This year additional fees for target imaging were cancelled for the first time.
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Fugro-BKS Fugro NV, has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamXp digital aerial camera system. “We are delighted to add the UltraCamXp to our range of airborne sensors,” stated Alan Campbell, Fugro-BKS Managing Director. “The camera’s wide footprint is ideal for uninterrupted collection of larger areas on aerial survey missions throughout Europe,
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
GeoERP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) capabilities for land, contracts, roads and infrastructure management. The system integrates extensive GIS capabilities into the authority’s existing workflow and logics to deliver perceptible process improvements and real value gained from the GIS. The system provides the authority with management capabilities to increase
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
The National Geographic Institute IGN goes on sale to the public interest, the publication of the book “Argentina 500k”, a work that shows the scale 1:500.000 Argentine territory, both on satellite images as topographic line plus its corresponding display on DVD. It is a work done in record time by the staff of IGN and
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
UN warns that the current model of urbanization is on a collision course with the climate and that if governments do not act quickly global warming could make 200 million people remain homeless by 2050. If the calculations of emissions of greenhouse gases cities encompass processes such as consumption and energy generation, transport and industrial
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Some P.E.I. farmers are turning to a new kind of software to keep nitrate levels in check and make their job easier — using an iPhone. “They’ve got apps for everything and now we’re developing an app, the is developing an app for producers like ourselves,” said Kevin MacIsaac, a potato farmer in Bear
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Ministries of electricity in Egypt and Saudi Arabia decided to make a tender to erect Egyptian-Saudi power linkage project by the mid of April 2011, said Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younis. The project is to be carried out as of January 2012. Younis said that the project is a sort of power exchange between
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
A chunk of England’s publicly owned forest will still be sold off, Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary has admitted, despite the public outcry over plans to privatise woodland. In an embarrassing admission earlier this year, the minister was forced to back down from plans to change the law so the government could sell all the
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
More than one third of Germany’s 21,500 wind turbines are located in the nation’s east. This concentration of generating capacity regularly overloads the region’s electricity grid, threatening blackouts. German Economics Minister Rainer Brüderle recently warned that Germany faces frequent power blackouts because too much ‘green electricity’ is being pumped onto the grid. While this is a problem
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
The situation on the European energy marked makes it more important to keep the Shtokman project on schedule, said Gazprom’s Alexey Miller and Statoil’s Helge Lund on Tuesday. Chairman of the Gazprom’s Management Committee Alexey Miller and Chief Executive Officer of Statoil Helge Lund met at the Gazprom headquarters to discuss the situation in the European
