Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Faro Technologies UK Ltd announces its first Pan-European user meeting for laser scanner customers. The laser scanner user meeting will take place on 9th December at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam one day after SPAR Europe 2010, the event that will showcase the next-generation scanning and 3D imaging technology. The user meeting will be a great
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC) recently hosted their annual lunch at The Bluebird restaurant on London’s fashionable King’s Road. Attendees were treated to three courses of superb food served in the luxurious surroundings of the private Beaufort Room, as well a fascinating presentation from James Bamford and Johannes Kebeck of Bing Maps.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – Gas plants will be eligible for the government’s £9bn carbon capture demonstration programme, Chris Huhne, the energy and climate change secretary, will announce tomorrow. The programme had only been open to coal plants, which in future will be required to fit the technology to capture and store emissions rather than release them into
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
VOICE OF RUSSIA – Russian polar explorers are due to get quite a present for the New Year, given that the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg is going to launch a new research vessel by that time. Thus far it has been the Polar Fleet flagship The Academician Fyodorov that has been continually sailing to both
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
With over 60 delegates from 35 different organisations, the latest Gazetteer Best Practice Day from Aligned Assets has been declared a resounding success. Held at the Media Resource Centre in Llandrindod on 2nd November, it saw six presentations focusing on best practice in gazetteers, all against the backdrop of unique complexities faced by the public sector
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The fourth satellite of the Italian Earth observation constellation COSMO-SkyMed was launched successfully at 07:20 p.m. on 5 November 2010 (03:20 a.m. on 6 November in Italy), via a Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite was duly acquired at 04:27 a.m., Italian time, by Telespazio’s Fucino Space Centre, which
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – The Finnish government is taking a close look at administrative problems afflicting the various municipalities of the Greater Helsinki area. With decision-making affecting the whole region in the hands of competing municipalities, the government feels that the current disparate systems are not functioning well together. This applies to the cities themselves, their existing systems
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
IBGE reveals today, November 4, the resident population in each of the 5.565 Brazilian municipalities on August 1st, 2010, according to the results of the 2010 Population Census, carried out from August 1st to October 31, which enumerated 185,712,713 people in the whole Brazil.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
ARAB NETWORK – The ministry and the WB have recently signed an agreement to finance a 1,500-megawatt North Giza power plant with 600 million dollars. The WB also offered 220 million dollars to fund a project on developing the national power grid, Younis said. The WB will also offer 270 million dollars in contribution to a 100-megawatt
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri, making ArcGIS software tools available for unlimited use by authorized NASA employees and contractors. The agreement reflects NASA’s extensive and growing use of Esri’s ArcGIS software to bring geospatial intelligence to a wide variety of mission-critical efforts, from streamlining operations
