Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Isfahan, Iran’s second city and a global Islamic cultural hub, has set its sights on becoming the Republic’s leading ‘e-municipality’ and a regional e-government leader. The ancient city of 1.7 million people, which was once of the world’s largest cities, is four years into a five-year ICT masterplan to develop infrastructure and improve citizen services and government
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
EDINA, a JISC-funded data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, is offering this workshop to introduce geospatial metadata, online Go-Geo! resources, and the open and closed versions of ShareGeo, a spatial data repository. Workshop participants will also be introduced to a range of accessible web sources for spatial data. The workshop is part an effort
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
LEDAS Ltd today announced the release of version 4.0 of LGS 3D, its powerful geometric constraint solver. This is the core technology for parametric design software, allowing users to express their design intent in 3D parts and assemblies through geometric and dimensional constraints. Version 4.0 introduces important new functions that customers will find useful for assembly
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
ITAR TASS – Russian Railways Company will pay start paying compensation to the passengers of the high-speed Sapsan trains from November 1, if they arrive with a more than 30-minute delay. The size of compensation will depend on the delay. A delay of 30 to 60 minutes (inclusive) will entail a payment of 25 percent of the
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
GUARDIAN – Prince Charles has warned that the world’s ecosystems face collapse because of a dangerous over-reliance on industrial farming systems that work against nature rather than with it. In a speech to launch a new sustainable farming project with the supermarket chain Morrisons, the Prince of Wales said farming needed to shift quickly to low-impact,
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – Germany’s Wadden Sea National Park, along the North Sea coast, turned 25 this month. As the world struggles with agreements to reverse biodiversity loss, the Wadden Sea shines as an example of transnational conservation. Read More
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
BUSINESS STANDARD – The Indo-Russian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), already planned to be loaded with top-end combat features like advanced stealth and super-cruise capability, could also be plugged, uniquely, into a network of satellites. With Moscow willing to grant India unprecedented access to military signals from Russia’s constellation of GLONASS (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System) satellites,
Monday, October 25th, 2010
GeoCue Corporation, the inventor of LIDARgrammetry, has an extensive portfolio of intellectual property for creating and exploiting a variety of LIDAR data using image processing and conventional photogrammetric techniques. LIDARgrammetry, among other features, provides producers and exploiters of LIDAR data methods of using these data in conventional photogrammetric workflows. These tools are encapsulated in the
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator® and PDF Maps for Apple iOS, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 3.2 for Adobe Photoshop. Along with support for Adobe CS5 and Mac OS 64-bit, it includes the ability to create and export geospatial PDF documents and terrain shading functionality.
Monday, October 25th, 2010
NORWAY POST – Norway and Japan will increase cooperation in space. The Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have now signed a new and broader agreement. Read More
