Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Building Information Modeling brings unique challenges tothe design team: when implementing BIM on a larger scale, architects often run intobottlenecks in model accessibility and workflow management. On November 23, 2011 colleagues around the world from GRAPHISOFT, Tekla Structures, DDS-CAD, and Arktec will demonstrate the power of Open Collaboration without borders. Based in Birmingham, Boston, Budapest,
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been working diligently over the years to build capacity within the geospatial community through the adoption of standards. There have been many successes during that time, some of which have led to even more interesting changes within the community, causing further speculation, interest and questions. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The Norilsk-Nickel operated vessel Monchegorsk arrived at the port of Dudinka on Thuesday after a 41 day long round-trip to China via the Northern Sea Route. The ice-classed diesel-electric vessel sailed from Murmansk on September 15 via the port of Dudinka by the Yenisei River and further to Shanghai with metal. She became the first
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – “We are planning to launch two Nigerian satellites on board our carrier in December,” Lavrov told reporters on Wednesday after a meeting with his Nigerian counterpart Odein Ajumogobia in Abuja. NigeriaSat-2 will be used primarily for resource management and mapping of the Nigerian territory, while NigeriaSat-X will assist with disaster relief and global
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
ADB – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is investing up to $20 million for its first-ever investment in a private equity fund solely focused on supporting the development of water-related infrastructure in the region. ADB’s Board of Directors approved the equity investment in the Asia Water Fund which will invest in water and wastewater assets in the
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Sales revenue of the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) in the first 9 months of 2010 reached EEK 1.3 billion. During the same period last year, RMK earned EEK 890 million in sales revenue, with growth reaching 46%. RMK’s net profit in the first 9 months of this year was EEK 296 million. That is six times higher compared
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
The European Galileo project is gaining momentum – on 12 November 2010, the DLR Society for Space Applications (GfR) from the Spaceopal GmbH in Munich, the contract for the operation of the Galileo Control Centre received Oberpfaffenhofen. Earlier, the German-Italian joint venture Spaceopal with the European Space Agency ESA in Brussels had concluded a contract for the
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
The Z+F IMAGER 5010 sets new standards in the field of 3D laser scanning. The tried and tested, extremely fast phase comparison procedure was developed further and installed in a device with the latest technology. The IMAGER 5010 has won admiration for its incredible speed and simple operation, enabling people to work efficiently and quickly. The
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
For the base-DLM (old data model), updated data of the federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Brandenburg, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia were included in the distribution. For Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt, this is the last time data update in the old data model. In future, only updated data from these countries in the new AAA
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
ESPON – The first research themes have focused on the functionality of major urban agglomeratons, the diversity of development options for rural regions, demography and migratory flows, the risks for regional economies of energy price fluctuations, territorial impacts of climate change and progress in techniques in support of territorial impact assessment of EU sector policies. Read
