Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Released today, on behalf of the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council, Australia’s Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2010–2030 sets 10 targets to measure the nation’s progress in protecting our natural environment. Read More
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure – GSDI 12 World Conference took place in Singapore from 19 to 22 October 2010. The partners organizing this conference included the GSDI Association, the Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia & the Pacific (PCGIAP) and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). “Governments at all levels in all countries depend on
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Design professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction industries will be able to save time, improve collaboration and reduce review cycles using the industry’s first web-ready large-format printing solution – available today. The new HP ePrint & Share and HP Designjet T2300 eMultifunction Printer (eMFP) solution allows design teams to easily access, share and print large-format project files
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Spanish energy group Iberdrola Renovables will begin to install wind turbines in its 80 MW wind farm project in Mihai Viteazul, Constanta county in 2011. The Spanish company has stated it plans to develop up to 50 wind parks in Romania with an installed power capacity which could total 1,500 MW. In the long-term this would require
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Fugro NPA motionmap products are unique off-the-shelf, multi-client, geographic datasets revealing millimetric ground and structure motion trends. motionmap datasets can be utilised within a wide range of market sectors for a variety of applications, including: Engineering – Utilise within the complete life cycle of an engineering project. Input into site selection processes, assess stability impacts of
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Calgary’s downtown is dense with 20 and 30-story buildings, holding 50% of all Calgary jobs. Parking is expensive, upwards of $20 per day. A new planning concept, the downtown PRT circulator, offers many unique benefits: enhances the existing LRT system re-connects a city split by railroad tracks stretches downtown to encompass the Eau Claire area
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
GeoIndex datasets are made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Services (WMS). View in compatible software or in portal-style websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS services. These web services allow you to bring the GeoIndex data layers into your own mapping software (GIS systems etc) to be viewed and compared alongside your own
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Inkaba yeAfrica is a collaborative German-South African Earth Science initiative that is both multidisciplinary and intercultural, dovetailing next-generation science and technology with a strong training and capacity-building component. With over 100 scientific contributions, more than half of them from students and young researchers from both countries, this workshop reflects the full scope of modern geoscience
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – Istanbul’s municipal authorities will cooperate with Turkey’s Transport Ministry on the construction of a third airport in Istanbul that will surpass the volume of the country’s largest current airport, the city’s mayor told daily Milliyet last week. Read More
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
KHALEEJ TIMES – ‘Fate of the World’ puts the Earth’s future in players’ hands, placing them in charge of an international environmental body which could save the world from the effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions or let it perish by continuing to rely on emissions-heavy fossil fuels. Through different scenarios, players can explore options such as