Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Until recently, much of the development of building materials has predominantly focused on producing cheaper, stronger and more durable construction materials. More recently attention has been given to the environmental issues in manufacturing, using, disposing and recycling of construction materials. Sustainability of construction materials brings together a wealth of recent research on the subject.The first
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The European Forest Institute (EFI) is an international organization with 21 European member countries, and 126 associate member institutions. EFI is hosting and managing the EU FLEGT Facility, which has the role of supporting the implementation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. The Facility is funded by the European Commission with co‐funding from the Governments
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
“One of our key goals with ArcGIS 10 was to make imagery core to GIS not only by providing easy access to tools for interpreting and processing imagery within ArcGIS, but also by giving our partners an improved platform for integrating advanced image analysis functionality into today’s GIS workflows, “said Jack Dangermond, president of Esri.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Spanish geographic data production is mainly oriented to fulfil the management needsof good governance. However, we can divide it into three levels of geographic dataproducers in Spain:● National Level: Government of Spain.The National Government is composed of 17 Ministries. Many of them are geographicinformation producers (Infrastructures and Transports (IGN-E (National MappingAgency), CNIG-E (National Centre of
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
EO apps seems to fall into 3 categories: satellite tracking, spatially enabled imaging and GPS. Do your own weather forecasting with met sat data on your phone.You can pretend to be satellite and get a satellite real-time view of your position.Get Accumaps DTM on your phone. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Nokia announced today that it has divested MetaCarta Inc. to Qbase Holdings LLC, a privately held US based company. Nokia will retain MetaCarta’s geographic intelligence technology, which it is incorporating in its local search and other services. MetaCarta serves primarily government as well as oil and gas customers. It was acquired by Nokia in April
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
SATELLINE-EASy is a new transceiver radio modem from SATEL. It provides compact and flexible solution for many different long-range applications like land surveying. SATELLINE-EASy is equipped with a wide 70 MHz tuning range; end-user can select the operation frequency within the whole range 403…473 MHz. Only one version in the stock and all the channels
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
T-Systems and the European Space Agency award the most promising business idea for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)The European Earth observation programme GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is driven by the requirements of sustainable development and the need to improve the monitoring of the European and global environment, especially in view
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
TIMES OF INDIA – In the wake of runaway inflation and the ensuing food crisis, the prime minister constituted three high-powered committees of chief ministers and central ministers to recommend ways of containing inflation, improving PDS and boosting agricultural production. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – The number of Arabic-language mobile applications is expected to grow significantly over the next year as regional organisations invest in the development of new content.The value of the global market for apps development will be US$6.2 billion (Dh22.77bn) this year and should grow to $22.1bn in 2013, according to figures from the
