Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Autodesk’s Project Galileo promises an easy-to-use planning tool for creating 3D city models from civil, geospatial and building data, and 3D models. This new offering will start its life in Autodesk Labs, and will allow users to sketch conceptual infrastructure ideas within the 3D city model. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
LE MONDE FRANCE – The Brazilian president has deplored the unwillingness of rich countries to finance the fight against deforestation. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
REUTERS – The latest version of Google Earth provides a 3D view of trees, an innovation that Google officials say will emerge as a forestry planning tool for governments, environmentalists, and indigenous peoples. While earlier versions of the software showed forest cover from a bird’s eye view worldwide, Google Earth 6 takes users beneath the canopy
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The first deployment of Ushahidi in Russia – the “Help Map” project (Russian-fires.ru) that worked as a mutual aid coordination platform during unprecedented wildfires last summer – received the most prestigious award of the Russian Internet. The “Runet Award 2010” (Premia Runeta) was granted to “Help Map” as the best project in a category “State
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The Report of the 2010 Caribbean Marine Atlas (CMA) Review and Planning Workshop as well as Saint Lucia Coastal Atlas Stakeholders Event is now available as IOC Workshop Report No. 235. During the 2010 CMA Review and Planning Workshop participants assessed progress of the CMA project at the national as well as regional level. In particular they
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
MATIMOP ISRAEL – Acqueau, the Eureka cluster for water, has been officially labeled by the EUREKA Program. ACQUEAU is supported by more than 20 industries from Europe including our national water company Mekorot. Acqueau will support the funding applied research with an objective of 500 millions Euros for 10 years. Read More
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The Java Reconstruction Fund (JRF) pooled contributions from seven donor countries totaling US$94.1 million. A community-driven approach, fueled by the spirit of “gotong royong” – a Javanese expression to illustrate communal cooperation to achieve a shared objective – led to the building of 15,153 permanent earthquake resistant houses and completion of 1,892 infrastructure projects such
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
On December 4 and 5, in over twenty locations around the world, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank will host the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), their progressive initiative that brings together volunteer software developers and experts in disaster risk management for a weekend-long “hackathon” to create software solutions that can help mitigate or respond to disasters
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
RG has teamed up with Flodim, the French sonar specialists, to bring a full range of sonar survey services to the UK. Commercial operations will commence in November 2010 with field units based in Deganwy, North Wales as well as in Manosque in the South of France. We will offer offshore operations from early 2011.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
UK MET OFFICE – Building on a strong history of scientific collaboration, the Met Office, University of Exeter, University of Leeds and the University of Reading are joining forces to form the Met Office Academic Partnership. This formal collaboration will advance the science and skill of weather and climate prediction. Read More
