Friday, July 30th, 2010
NV Energy, a US-based utility company, has received approval for its $301 million smart grid and smart meter project from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada. The company has also received $138 million grant in stimulus funding from the US Department of Energy for the implementation of the advanced service delivery (ASD) project. The company plans
Friday, July 30th, 2010
L’MONDE FRANCE – Insufficient prevention resources eventually resulted in land affected and vulnerable making constructible, repression (almost) non-existent. There are many causes to the fires, but fundamentally it is human factors that contribute to them. Read More
Friday, July 30th, 2010
OSNI® ACEmap® provides the definitive location mapping for Planning Applications, Property Conveyancing and Land Registration in Northern Ireland. Read More
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Germany’s electricity supply could make a complete switch to renewable energies by 2050. The technology already available on the market could make this possible even today, but it requires that electricity be used and produced very efficiently. These are the results of a study done by the Federal Environment Agency. Read More
Friday, July 30th, 2010
TanDEM-X BLOG – On 12 July, the first deceleration manoeuvres began, to prevent TanDEM-X from overtaking TerraSAR-X. On 16 July, the distance between the satellites had shrunk to 370 kilometres. This distance corresponds to a time gap of 48 seconds, during which Earth continues to turn, so that the trailing satellite does not cover the
Friday, July 30th, 2010
With the financial crisis fading into the past, speculation on agricultural commodities markets has returned in force. Food prices are climbing once again as hedge funds rediscover the immense profits that can be made — led by a British chocolate baron. Even by the standards of London’s exclusive Mayfair neighborhood, businessman Anthony Ward leads a
Friday, July 30th, 2010
GLOBAL ARAB NETWORK – Head of the Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences Dr Ayman al-Desouki and Nabil ben Amin of the Saudi authority for specifications and quality signed the accord.The agreement is aimed at promoting joint action in the domain of space sciences and remote sensing research, said Desouki in statements
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Broadwind Energy, Inc. today announced that it has opened an office in Hamburg, Germany, and named Michael Stegelmann as managing director of Broadwind Energy Europe GmbH. “Many turbine manufacturers have engineering offices in the Hamburg area, and this new office will enable us to keep pace with rapidly evolving wind turbine technology,” said Lars Moller,
Friday, July 30th, 2010
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am pleased to invite you to Nanjing, China for the joint ICA/ISPRS/FIG International Symposium on LIDAR and Radar Mapping: Technologies and Applications (LIDAR & RADAR 2011)! The LIDAR & RADAR 2011 symposium in Nanjing is the first time of this type of event on this active remote sensing
Friday, July 30th, 2010
In the previous post, we finished by calculating population density for the city of Chicago. Today we will continue to build on that same dataset and will look at a cool way to visualize our spatial data using SSRS in SQL Server 2008 R2. If you haven’t done so yet, run through the tutorials in posts oneand two
