Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
On 6 July 2010, Hexagon AB entered into an agreement to acquire US-based software provider Intergraph Corporation. 1) Hexagon acquires Intergraph, a global provider of enterprise engineering and geospatial software. 2) Cash purchase price of 2 125 MUSD on a cash and debt free basis. 3) The acquisition will further strengthen Hexagon’s position as a world
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of human-ecological urban system are undergoing rapid change. There are two major threads: systems and complexity, and advances in the landscape ecology research traditions. The first focuses on how to more appropriately capture the joint dynamics of both human and ecological needs. The second focuses on methodology.
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Evolution Robotics, Inc., a leading robotics technology company, today announced that Mint™, an automatic floor cleaning appliance designed exclusively for hard surface floor cleaning, has been awarded a silver IDEA (International Design Excellence Award) in the “Home Living” category by the Industrial Design Society of America. The 2010 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA®) competition is
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
DEFRA – The schemes fund green farming methods such as creating wildlife habitats and protecting the English landscape. Although Defra’s schemes are effective and have been designed to make them attractive to farmers, the European Commission concluded that payments should only be made at certain points during the year instead of on a rolling basis
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Norway took over the presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea states on July 1st. Norway will base its presidency on the priorities adopted by the Council of the Baltic Sea States: environment, energy, economic development, education and culture, and civil security. In addition Norway will have a particular focus on
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
CALGARY HERALD – The multi-modal strategy, to be delivered to government by December, will have a profound impact on the province’s economic growth and competitiveness in the coming decades, policy observers noted. It will be particularly important for the Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton regions, which are expected to be home to about 77 per
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region is also available for download. Atlas pages are to be downloaded individually (144 pages in total), either in PDF format (higher quality) or JPEG format. The user can navigate the Atlas by using the Navigation Buttons and/or selecting a section from the Contents Menu. There are 144
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
JRC – Available Thematic Data Layers for Commission Decision of on guidelines for the calculation of land carbon stocks for the purpose of Annex V to Directive 2009/28/EC. The Climatic Zone layer is defined based on the classification of IPCC (IPCC, 2006). The zones are defined by a set of rules based
Monday, July 5th, 2010
The Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008), developed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has been released. The model provides worldwide coverage of gravity data at 5’x5′ mean resolution with geoid accuracy of 15cm. EGM2008 is constructed from a combination of GRACE satellite data, topographic data, altimetry on sea, and gravity observations on land areas. EGM2008
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered the construction of a 600 MW thermal-power plant in the central province of Thanh Hoa on Saturday. Eighty-five per cent of the VND22.26 trillion (roughly US$1.15 billion) Nghi Son 1 project will come from Japanese official development assistance with the rest contributed by Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN). Once
