Monday, October 18th, 2010
Getmapping in partnership with Geosense, ESRI South Africa and Precision Surveys has recently completed a 500 sq km aerial survey of Maputo and its environs including the islands Xefina and Inhaca. The survey was commissioned by the Municipal Council of Maputo to create a new base map for the city’s new geographic and management information
Monday, October 18th, 2010
The exciting new reality of open BIM collaboration will be demonstrated on October 21 in a GRAPHISOFT webcast. Insights will be offered on how true interoperability and real-time design sharing are possible with BIM models right now.
Monday, October 18th, 2010
Matt Walker has joined Astun Technology as Geospatial Technologist. He will be responsible for enterprise deployment of Astun’s range of web based GIS, data integration and publishing solutions to local authorities. Walker has spent most of his career to date working with spatial data specialists Dotted Eyes, where he became Technical Director. During his time there
Monday, October 18th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Tackling global loss of wildlife is as big a challenge as addressing climate change, conservation experts have warned as an international meeting gets under way aimed at stopping species and habitats vanishing across the world. Governments are meeting in Nagoya, Japan, hoping to agree on 20 targets to conserve nature and tackle problems including
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
SLD – Competition for the Arctic has been growing intense since 2007. The Arctic neighboring states have proclaimed or renewed their national strategies on the Arctic. In the short-, mid- and long-term perspective, the question of who is entitled to the Arctic region and its vast store of resources remains unanswered in 2010. Read More
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
7th SPACE – The number of turbines now production in mean that operators are looking at reducing O&M costs to see significant gains in profitability. With no fuel costs, a wind farm is totally dependent on smart use of operational expenditure (OPEX) to be profitable. In less than five years, a wind turbine will likely
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Two weeks after announcing its investment in DriverTech, Rand McNally unveiled future enhancements for the TruckPC mobile fleet management solution at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference and Exhibition in Phoenix. Rand McNally Truck PC, powered by DriverTech, utilizes Rand McNally’s leading IntelliRoute® TND™ truck navigation on DriverTech’s secure, industry-tested, on-board computing platform. The recently announced deal between the
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The CS650, CS655, and CWS655, our newest soil-water reflectometers, feature many improvements over their predecessors. These improvements include the ability to measure bulk electrical conductivity (EC) and soil temperature in addition to soil-water content. Innovative techniques allow the new sensors to make accurate water-content measurements for a wider EC range (up to 3.7 dS/m) without
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
What are the current trends and possible future policy options in migration, fertility, and mortality in European regions? How will an ageing population affect European regions in the next decades? What types of policies can be aimed at accommodating and changing demographic and migratory trends? These are some of the questions that will be open for
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Technological advances are driving European research and people are increasingly becoming dependent on technology to make their lives more efficient. Visual analytics marries analytical reasoning with visual interactive interfaces to resolve complex problems. The EU-funded VISMASTER (‘Visual analytics – Mastering the information age’) project, which received more than 530 000 in funding under the ‘Information
