Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
The urban poor make up half the city’s population, early estimates of the 2011 census indicate. The headcount was conducted by the Pune Municipal Corporation between February 9 and February 28. “Detailed figures and census data will be available only after the Census Commission releases the official data,” said city census officer Praveen Ashtikar. He said
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Christchurch last week, there is such a prevalent feeling amongst those not directly involved in or affected by events, to offer help in some way. For those of us in the geospatial field disaster support often takes the form of facilitating data to help decision makers,
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
At the workshop you can take advantage of the focused technical sessions on SLOPE/W, SEEP/W and SIGMA/W to sharpen your numerical modelling skills under the direction of GEO-SLOPE’s expert engineering team. Details of the Europe 2011 Geotechnical Modelling Workshop are available online, and space is limited to 30 participants, so register today!
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
The Faculty of Geosciences organizes a summerschool ‘The Dutch Delta in 2050’ from the 27th of June till the 1st of July. In this summerschool secondary school students will try to answer the questions: How do we respond to challenges like flood-risk and climate change? How will we make sure people can still joyfully live
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Landuse change models are typically calibrated to reproduce known historic changes. Calibration results can then be assessed by comparing two datasets: the simulated landuse map and the actual landuse map at the same time. A common method for this is the Kappa statistic, which expresses the agreement between two categorical datasets corrected for the expected
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
In a report, the Commons Science and Technology Committee highlighted last April’s volcanic ash cloud – which grounded thousands of flights – as an example of poor risk assessment. The risk of such disruption had been been discounted only a year earlier. Read More
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Terrain, an Athens-based cartographic company, is publishing the first highly detailed, large-scale maps (1:10,000 to 1:100,000) of Greece using GIS data exclusively acquired by mobile teams of cartographers. By foot, bike, auto and boat, Terrain surveyor teams, traveling with Ashtech MobileMapper 100 handheld smart GNSS receivers loaded with ArcPad, are mapping Greece in unprecedented rich
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Geospar today announced the new release and immediate availability of its GIS software framework to build web-based, high performance, secure and scalable GIS solutions: Geomajas 1.8.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Bentley recognizes that software interoperability is crucial to the successful, cost-effective design, delivery, and operation of infrastructure. Bentley is continually working to achieve the highest level of interoperability within our solutions and with other vendors’ software. We are also actively involved in many key industry organizations to foster the development and propagation of interoperability standards worldwide. Read More
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Bentley recognizes that software interoperability is crucial to the successful, cost-effective design, delivery, and operation of infrastructure. That’s why Bentley is offering the following free iWare Apps for enhanced interoperability leading to streamlined workflows. Read More
