Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
PR – Conwy County Borough Council has chosen Yotta DCL’s cutting edge automatic inventory surveying service to help update its asset inventory register. Yotta DCL will survey Conwy’s entire 1700km network of county roads using its innovative YAV 1 digital asset capture survey vehicle. Armed with survey data for carriageway, footway, gullies, signs, channel blocks
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
When I picked up this book I did not know what to expect. It is not a topic that is often discussed or written about. Authors Rosario C. Giusti de Perez and Ramon A. Perez take us on a journey inside the world of urban development for developing nations. As two of the earliest users
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Sometimes an interview just happens. I meet a person with an interesting point of view or topic to discuss and we sit down and chat about it. Other times I am more direct and send a note requesting time with an individual. And then there are the times when events happen, words are exchanged and
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
PR – The European Space Agency and Astrium GmbH have today signed a contract worth €263 million to provide the EarthCARE satellite, the sixth Earth Explorer mission of ESA’s Living Planet Programme. As prime contractor, Astrium GmbH is responsible for the satellite’s design, development and integration.
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
The GI2008 Symposium took place recently in Dresden, Germany. The symposium brought together a wide range of public, private and educational people, all interested in the pursuit of geoinformation and geospatial applications for sustainability purposes. As an educational and capacity building event, GI2008 featured many unique cross-border applications. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston attended the
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
GenerativeComponents (GC) is a next generation product from Bentley Systems, Incorporated. The product enables architects and engineers to explore designs and geometry together in new ways. It enables ‘what-if’ scenarios to be explored either through geometry and or the relationship of building elements and forms dynamically. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston met with Huw W.
Friday, May 9th, 2008
PR – Akeena Solar, Inc. a leading designer and installer of solar power systems, today announced results for the first quarter of 2008.
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Geographical information systems (GIS) can offer tangible benefits for those charged with the management of our transport network. However, even with sophisticated spatial analysis tools, advanced display options and compatibility with other systems GIS is just another piece of software if proper consideration is not given to the data held and accessed by the system.
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
IRISH INDEPENDENT – Dublin Airport could be home to a €4bn high-rise "city" within 20 years, under plans unveiled yesterday. Stretching over 350 acres, Dublin Airport City will be almost a third of the size of London’s Dockland development. The completed project will include more than 600,000sqm of office space, as well as retail space,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
IOC – India is to become the first Tsunami Watch Provider for the Indian Ocean as of June this year. India’s offer was accepted by the Intergovernmental Coordination group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, which was meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia, from 8 to 12 April 2008. Read More
