Monday, December 6th, 2010
Trimble’s leading UK distributor, KOREC, has announced the launch of the Trimble® FastMapTM Mobile Drainage Network Surveyor system, a high accuracy mapping solution developed by the Trimble Professional Services group. The system offers industry specific functionality for highways and drainage contactors working in the UK on behalf of the Highways Agency or utility water companies.
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Landmap is pleased to launch the new Landmap Kaia Client to the academic community. This is a major overhaul of the Beta release Kaia client with many big changes including new data additions and methods of download from the interface. We have undertaken this change in the hope of providing a better user experience and provide improved access
Monday, December 6th, 2010
First Minister Alex Salmond today announced an annual award, to be presented under the auspices of Scotland’s marine energy Saltire Prize, to recognise outstanding contributions to the development of wave and tidal power. The Saltire Prize, which has attracted more than 150 registrations of interest from 31 countries and already two confirmed applicants, will see £10
Monday, December 6th, 2010
The European Lidar Mapping Forum (ELMF) was held at The Hague, Netherlands Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2010. Although the city endured the largest snowfall and plunging temperatures in 40 years, the environment inside was much more comfortable where over 600 attendees from 42 countries were in attendance displaying and discussing state-of-the-art lidar mapping devices
Monday, December 6th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – In addition to all that is involved in launching the world’s first green-energy body, the organisation’s new head has placed a priority on producing a map of the world’s solar and wind resources. Adnan Amin, the Kenyan economist who stepped in last month to take over as interim director general of the International Renewable
Monday, December 6th, 2010
THE HINDU – The freshwater biodiversity of the country is being assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It is after a gap of 13 years that the freshwater biodiversity of the country, including fish, molluscs, insects and plants, is being assessed using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. The last such
Monday, December 6th, 2010
ITT Corporation announced its agreement to purchase the business operations of EchoStorm Worldwide. The privately held EchoStorm delivers innovative video and data management technology for military, government, and commercial applications. EchoStorm, founded in 2003, provides a suite of secure, net-centric commercial products that enables users to capture, manage, and disseminate full-motion video in near real
Monday, December 6th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – Farming is strategic but there is plenty of room for improvement. This has been the year European farming is being reshaped to fit better into the Common Agricultural Policy. The EU Commission wants to make CAP greener, fairer, more efficient, and more effective. A public consultation phase, which closed last month, brought a record
Monday, December 6th, 2010
GNSS market forecasting is of great interest to private and public GNSS stakeholders, for business and strategic planning and policymaking. According to the new GSA report, the market for GNSS will grow significantly over the next decade, reaching in 2020 up to €244 billion for the overall GNSS enabled market (accounting for the full retail
Monday, December 6th, 2010
ICIMOD – Experts from leading institutions and government organisations working in the field of climate change in the Himalayan region called attention to mountain issues and challenges in the light of climate change. They linked these issues to the debate on how to mainstream the sustainable development agenda while planning adaptation and mitigation activities, including
