Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Focusing on the Baltic Sea Region the project “ASTRA – Developing Policies and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region” assessed the regional impacts of climate change impacts and developed adequate adaptation strategies and policy recommendations together with relevant stakeholders. The ASTRA consortium consisted of research institutes, regional and local planning authorities
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
PR – The air navigation and aviation industry will have an easier way to create and manage centralized spatial data, increase their efficiency, and rely on an end-to-end workflow management with the release of Production Line Tool Set (PLTS) for ArcGIS 9.3—Aeronautical Solution. ESRI’s latest release of the software continues to be the foundation of
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
The 20th AGI (Association for Geographic Information) Event and 2nd Geocommunity Conference 2008 was held this past week at Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK to an audience of 600 under the theme ‘Shaping a Changing World’. The evening prior to the event featured a pre-conference icebreaker which included the Earl of Oxford’s Men, a Shakespearean entertainment group who
Friday, September 19th, 2008
In the most densely populated area of the Netherlands, the city of Amsterdam undertook the monumental challenge of designing a community for 45,000 inhabitants on 495 hectares of nonexistent land. Creating a new landmass by reclaiming seven islands from dredged sand in IJmeer, a lake on Amsterdam’s east side, residents with a fondness for waterfront
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Cultural Landscape: Assessment, Protection, Shaping is the first monograph volume in a series as part of the international project “Protecting Historical Cultural Landscapes to Strengthen Regional Identities and Local Economies” and is partially funded by the European Union Programme INTERREG III B CADSES. The volume is edited by Jozef Hernik and Jacek M. Pijanowski and
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
PR – Green Star Alternative Energy, Inc. (Pink Sheets:GSAE) announces the development of a new wind energy project in the Republic of Serbia. The 20 Megawatt (MW) Belo Blato wind farm will be the initial phase of a 300 MW development plan. It will be the country’s first alternative energy project to generate renewable, emission-free
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Geographic dynamics is concerned with the study and application of geographic information from creation through to geocomputation and visualisation. A group from the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) met with intelligence and non-government participants. That workshop resulted in the book Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains, a collection of articles edited by Kathleen Stewart Hornsby and
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Motivation speaker Daniel Burrus spoke at the Intergraph Conference a few years ago. He said: “Time is the currency of the 90s”. If that was the case then it is certainly the case now. So how do you make time? The answer is simple. It comes from an old quality mantra: ‘do it right the
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
PR – JAXA has been regularly observing the Arctic and Antarctic Circles as the two years between March 1, 2007, and March 1, 2009, are the International Polar Years. We are happy to announce that we have published on our website some of the images acquired by the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
PR – Karen Clark & Company, an independent provider of catastrophe risk management services, today announced the introduction of the KC Wind Damage Scale™, a new tool for quickly assessing the likely insured damage from tropical cyclones.
