Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Onset announced the availability of the company’s new Energy and Environmental Monitoring Product Catalog. The 75-page catalog provides product descriptions, technical specifications, and pricing for the company’s full line of HOBO® data logging solutions used in energy management, field research, and water resources management. This includes stand-alone data loggers, web-based data logging systems, and wireless
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
The European Parliament’s final draft report on the Commission proposal for a regulation on GMES programme and its initial operations 2011-2013 was unanimously approved by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) on 11 May 2010. In this approved report, representing the achievement of extensive discussions between the Parliament and the Council of Ministers,MEPs included a
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
After last year’s success, we are pleased to announce the 2nd Symposium on Earth Observation Business. The event will take place once again in synergy with the World Satellite Business Week, organised by Euroconsult. To cover the many areas of discussion in this dynamic segment of the satellite sector, the symposium has been extended to nearly
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Peter Woodsford, chairman at Snowflake Software, received an MBE for his services to the Geographic Information Industry in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list this weekend. The award is recognition of his contribution to the growing maturity and importance of the Geographic Information industry.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
GCS – Current European Green Capital, Stockholm, participated in this year’s Green Week in Brussels, the biggest annual conference devoted to European environment policy. The issue of biodiversity took centre stage at this year’s Green Week. For Stockholm, the conference presented an opportunity to share the City’s experiences as European Green Capital, and to address
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Bentley Institute Press, the SmartGeometry Group, and the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) are extending their invitation to submit summaries of original articles for a new peer-reviewed publication about parametric design methods until 28 July 2010. The highly illustrated SmartGeometry: The Evolution of Computational Design and Practice will highlight innovative parametric design approaches that are at the intersection
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Water supply continues to be a pressing concern in developing countries around the globe. The World Health Organization maintains that 884 million people—one of every eight people on the planet—do not have access to safe water, and that 2.5 billion people—two-fifths of the world’s population—do not have access to adequate sanitation. Polluted water is estimated
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
AGI is extremely pleased to see an important GI figure in both commercial and academic spheres being honoured with an MBE ‘for services to geographic information’. Professor Peter Peter Woodsford has been one of the major figures in the Geographic Information (GI) industry for more than 35 years. At the birth of the industry, he
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Earl Dudley, Inc., established in 1938, is well known for supplying the construction and surveying industries with surveying equipment and supplies, GPS systems, machine control, laser scanners and software. Now, landfill operations in four southern states can look to Earl Dudley for state-of-the-art software, the Carlson Landfill Grade GPS Management System. Designed for use with
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
The European Commission’s Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Applications Action Plan adopted today aims to place European industry in pole position to take full advantage of the global downstream market worth about €100 billion in particular by using its own satellite navigation programmes, Galileo and EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System). EGNOS, the European satellite-based
