Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Berlin-based map app service Skobbler wants to grab a share of the offline mobile map market before the other web giants wade in with their own connection-free platforms. Skobbler this week launched the latest version of its detailed map system, ForeverMap, giving users the ability to browse mobile maps of any country in Europe but
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
The University of Salzburg Centre for Geoinformatics and the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences offer an annual forum to the worldwide geoinformatics community, bringing together English-speaking researchers and practitioners across disciplines and industries. Simultaneously, the GI_Forum connects participants into a well established co-located regional symposium – Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) – sharing
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
This year, Dassault Systèmes (booth C1 – C6) will be demonstrating how the human being is placed at the very heart of 3D technology! ” HUMAN AT THE CORE ! ” is a special event taking place on Wednesday 2 February, at the end of the day, during which Dassault Systèmes will illustrate how the human
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
The importance of forests for food security is rarely studied. The subject has been well studied in the following paper (full paper on attachment). The study used a novel empirical model to examine problems of forest policy on food security and livelihoods. It also reviewed progression of forest policies for environment conservation which reduced poor
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Land use and land cover changes, including legal and illegal deforestation, are amongst the most important factors that contribute to the social and environmental challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. Deforestation alone is responsible for about 12% of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, whereas another 6% stems from peat oxidation and fires
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
To help authorities and emergency services plan for the risk of flooding in the unlikely event that a reservoir failed, maps showing areas that could flood have now been published online. Dam breach and flood modelling techniques were used to produce a national set of reservoir flood maps for England and Wales. The maps were created
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
A recent study by Helsinki Region Transport (HSL) seeks to restore the maligned reputation of local trains in a situation in which rail transport has suffered from the recent severe winter weather. Local trains have proven to be the most energy-efficient form of public transport in the Helsinki region. A local train will take a passenger three
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
If guide books ever bothered being honest, they’d look a lot like Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Rebecca Solnit’s dark, cartographic poem to the Bay Area. The book — a collection of maps and essays written by both Solnit and others — reads like an alternative field guide to a city known to outsiders primarily through
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Abengoa Solar announced today that it has finalized $1.45 billion financing to build Solana, the world’s largest parabolic trough concentrating solar plant. This plant, with a total investment of around $2 Billion, will generate 250 net megawatts (MW). Santiago Seage, CEO of Abengoa Solar, stated, “Solana is the first large scale CSP plant for Abengoa
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
The Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) market, a growing segment of the larger building efficiency industry, is quickly gaining momentum as an effective means for end-users to implement energy efficiency applications in commercial buildings. Such solutions range from reactive energy efficiency optimization software to predictive supply and demand side energy management architectures. According to a new report
