Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
In an interview with DW, the head of an effort to reform the way the UN deals with environmental problems outlines his suggestions for how the world could move from countless talk shops to action. Frank Biermann is the chair of the Earth System Governance Project and a professor at Amsterdam’s Free University. He is leading
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
The new version of the software for handling RS data – ScanEx Image Processor – is available now for its users. ScanEx RDC specialists issued the new version of the ScanEx Image Processor 3.6 software application. This application has been widely used by different public organizations and private companies in Russia and abroad for in-depth
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Calvium announces that the latest app from The Guardian newspaper – “King’s Cross, London – Streetstories” – is being powered by Calvium’s AppFurnace platform. The Guardian app is an immersive audio walking guide with a difference – as users wander through the streets of King’s Cross, the app automatically activates sounds, music and stories relevant to
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
he International Water Management Institute (IWMI), with headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has been named the 2012 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for their pioneering research that has served to improve agriculture water management, enhance food security, protect environmental health and alleviate poverty in developing countries. This announcement was made on the UN World Water Day. H.M.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
A new UK facility aimed at improving measurement of carbon emissions and boosting development of clean technology is due to open. The Centre for Carbon Measurement will be based at the National Physical Laboratory in south-west London. Read More
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
A striking new museum opens this week in Belfast, the birthplace of the ill-fated Titanic luxury ship. Opening a century after the cruise ship slammed into an iceberg, killing 1,500, the exhibition recalls a tragedy which was long taboo in Northern Ireland’s former industrial hub. Read More
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Anthony (Tony) Follett was elected to the Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference’s Hall of Fame for his, “exemplary contributions of surveying and mapping,” in the State of Alaska. Follett is the sixth AeroMetric employee to receive this award. Follett, who leads AeroMetric’s Alaska office, said, “It was an unexpected honor for me to be chosen
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
IGN France International and the French IGN (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information), in close cooperation with the Geographic Institute of Burkina Faso (IGB), the Economic Commission for Africa and Esri, are organising a regional seminar entitled: “National Spatial Data Infrastructures: which benefits for African emerging countries?” that will be held on April 3rd
Monday, March 26th, 2012
GeoCue Corporation, parent company of QCoherent Software LLC, is pleased to announce that PASCO Philippines Corporation has selected LP360 for ArcGIS as their standard LIDAR production tool. PASCO Philippines has deployed over 40 seats of LP360 for ArcGIS®. Mr. Rico Pajaganas, Chief Technology Officer for PASCO Philippines, stated “After an exhaustive evaluation of LIDAR tools for
Monday, March 26th, 2012
The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to
