Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
The growth of mega-cities around the world poses unique challenges for managing infrastructure, health, communities and transportation. This expansion is near impossible to understand and plan for appropriately without the assistance of spatial information and geospatial technology. Geographic informatiom systems (GIS) and computer-aided design (CAD) are both helping to address these challenges. Yet, other areas
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – North and South Korea are in a state of heightened tensions following attacks on Yeonpyeong island. How many of these incidents have there been – and where were they? Read More
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Clark Labs will be unveiling new tools for REDD+ at the Forest Day 4 event in Cancun that will enable users to measure carbon emissions with the BioCarbon Fund methodology as well as model the impacts of alternative economic policies with a new interface to the OSIRIS modeling tool. These new features will be publicly
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Mauell Corporation, a leader in the design and implementation of purpose-built utility control room environments, today announced a strategic partnership with Space-Time Insight. Integrating the spatio-analytics software product of Space-Time Insight with its field-proven control theater technologies, Mauell will be able to deliver a more situational aware operation. Read More
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
ABC.AZ – Igor Shchegolev, the minister of communications & mass media of Russia, that project “Satellite Access to Internet” is implemented under supervision of the Modernization Commission of President Dmitry Medvedev. “Taking into account mountain relief of Azerbaijan and impossibility of on-air signal and cable laying in some areas of the country, I believe that satellite Internet
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Take the world’s largest country: Russia. It would be taken over by its Asian neighbour and rival China, the country with the world’s largest population. Overcrowded China would not just occupy underpopulated Siberia – a long-time Russian fear – but also fan out all the way across the Urals to Russia’s westernmost borders. Ch ina
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
7TH SPACE – We set out to construct a linkage map for a North American Atlantic salmon family and to compare this map with the well developed map for European Atlantic salmon. Results: We used microsatellite markers, which had previously been mapped in the two Atlantic salmon SALMAP mapping families from the River Tay, Scotland, to
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Munich City Utilities (SWM) have placed an order with Siemens Mobility for 21 new C2 type underground trains worth about 185 million euros. At the same time, SWM have taken out two options on a further 46 underground trains, totaling 276 cars, which can be exercised until 2016 and 2020, respectively. The total volume of
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
DataCAD Software & Services GmbH, a provider of technical software solutions for the industry, today announced the release of ToleranceCalc v6.0 from Geomate. It enables users of all popular CAD applications to analyze 1D and 2D tolerances of parts and assemblies with unprecedented ease, speed, and accuracy.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
FOSTER + PARTNERS – The Masdar Institute, devoted to researching sustainability, is the first building to be fully operational within Masdar City. The masterplan, by Foster + Partners, incorporates lessons which have evolved over centuries of traditional Arabian architecture. The Masdar Institute is the first building of its kind to be powered entirely by renewable solar
