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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

ISRSE 2011: Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia

The Technical Program Committee are pleased to announce the preliminary program is now available. The Organizing Committee of the 34th International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE) cordially invites you to visit Sydney and participate in what promises to be an excellent high quality Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment. The theme for the Symposium is

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

VCS Advisory Committee and Technical Experts for the VCS Jurisdictional and Nested REDD Initiative

The Voluntary Carbon Standard Association is establishing an advisory committee and technical experts group to provide guidance to support the new VCS Jurisdictional and Nested REDD Initiative. The initiative is being established to develop a robust framework for operationalizing and accounting for jurisdictional and nested REDD.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

ew Forest Trends Publication – Contracting for Forest Carbon

Forest carbon has the potential to play an important role in climate mitigation. However, forest carbon transactions today raise many challenging issues for participants, including difficult legal questions. Despite almost twenty years of transacting forest carbon, and more than 67.8 million tons of carbon dioxide transacted, transaction costs and legal fees remain significant and unpredictable

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

DigitalAria Launches FXUI Stereoscopic 3D Embedded GUI Engine

DigitalAria  today announced their release of the extended FXUI-3D engine designed to enable a rich multimedia user experience. This embedded GUI graphics engine includes Flash playback and delivers superior graphics capabilities to mobile phone, tablet PC, smart TV, PMP, and other consumer electronics. It supports multiple platforms, including Android, Windows, and Linux operating systems. The announcement

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

AfDB and EIB Finalise Financing Agreement for Cape Verde Wind Farm

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), on Tuesday, 14 December 2010,  closed the financing agreement to provide € 45 million to design, construct and operate onshore wind farms on four islands in the Cape Verde archipelago. This will be one of the largest wind projects in Africa and first renewable

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Britain’s New Generation of Green Power Plants ‘are Caught in Planning Delays’

The opportunity to create up to 50,000 badly needed jobs in the construction sector by building a new generation of “greener” power plants is being thrown away by long delays in the planning process, ministers have been warned. Union leaders have joined the Confederation of British Industry in pressing the government to clear the logjams that

Monday, December 20th, 2010

NZ – Developing a National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Cabinet agreed to the development of a national spatial data infrastructure for New Zealand, and directed Government agencies to get involved now – at the development stage. Cabinet also mandated LINZ, through the NZGO, to assume a leadership role in driving the development of this infrastructure. Read More

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Selects Bentley’s WaterGEMS and SewerGEMS

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), one of the largest water and wastewater utilities in the United States, has selected Bentley’s WaterGEMS and SewerGEMS software. WaterGEMS enhances water distribution and modeling capabilities while SewerGEMS improves the

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Nisga’a Nation of Canada Selects ILS to Implement Land Registry System

International Land Systems (ILS), Inc., has entered into a contract to develop a new cadastral and registry information system for the Nisga’a Nation in Canada’s British Columbia province. The project will be administered by the Land Title Office of the Nisga’a Lisims Government. 

Monday, December 20th, 2010

5 Days of Gifts from MicroSurvey

We’ve lined up a few last-minute surprises. Over the next five days, we’ve got five presents lined up for you. So, each morning, check your email at this time! Read More

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