Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Two of the world’s leading science agencies, CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), are joining forces to tackle one of the world’s biggest problems – how to feed a global population that is growing by 75 million people per year. Scientists from CSIRO and CAS will meet in Australia next week to discuss
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Colortrac, an important innovator in the field of wide format scanner technology, have released a new version of their SmartWorks Pro large format scanner software allowing customers to select from one of 10 new fully nationalised versions to suit their local needs. The fully translated Graphical User Interface (GUI) and embedded Contextual User Guide allow SmartWorks Pro customers to further refine their scanning
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The report, “Infrastructure and Growth in Zimbabwe: An Action Plan for Strengthened Recovery,” was released today, 7 March 2011, at an international investors’ conference in Harare. It is part of the analytical work aimed at helping to strengthen the AfDB’s leadership in Zimbabwe’s infrastructure sector.
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The “Day with the Heritage” are training courses in History, Art and Heritage in where, in an informal way, participants travel themes to build itineraries biographical and space. Whose principal aim is to raise awareness of the importance of heritage ed memory of places, these courses lead us through a virtual journey through space and time
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
According to a new study from satellite observations, the losses exceed those at the two poles of glaciers and mountain ice caps, raising fears that rising sea levels greater than predicted so far. Read More
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Two groups of students of the Hasso Plattner Institute were at the creative competition “Apps4Berlin” victorious, an initiative of the Senate. With its smart phone application “BEPART” for improved citizen participation in urban planning processes, the HPI bachelor students Martin Büttner, Jonas Gebhardt, Niemeier Luke, Jannik Streek and Nicholas Wittstruck came at number 1 in
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
From now on, the citizens of the city of Bremerhaven on its own website can view the solar potential of their information on house roofs. Among the 45,000 surveyed buildings can gradations of solar output level directly be detected by using color, how the individual roof photovoltaic system or solar water heating are suitable for
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
In just eight weeks, virtualcitySYSTEMS created over 200,000 buildings in LoD1 and LoD2 from airborne LiDAR for the Frankfurt Survey Department. The total area of the project encompassed 250km² including Frankfurt International Airport. Object attributes from the municipal ground cadastre were saved to the building geometry and finally saved in CityGML 0.4.0 and 1.0. A
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
For over 10 years, virtualcitySYSTEMS has created 3D city models and providing GIS integration services for customers in the private and public sector. As systems integration consultant, we have developed a process to deliver complete solutions to our clients – from initial consulting, data processing and migration all the way to city modelling and GIS and
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Government Chief Scientist Professor Sir John Beddington discusses the imperatives for action for a sustainable global food system, his subject at this month’s SDUK conference:“This is a unique time in history decisions now and over the next few decades will disproportionately influence the future.”We also look at diverse research projects: Creative Climate’s narratives of
