Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
A group of infrastructure funds led by JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to buy UK water company Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland for about 1.3 billion pounds ($2.7 billion). Read More
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that ESRI Finland is adding ER Mapper Professional, Image Web Server (IWS), Image Integration Framework, Image Compressor and Image Viewer to its portfolio of product offerings. Following Leica Geosystems’ recent acquisition of ER Mapper, ESRI Finland will also offer these new products. “ESRI Finland has a long history as
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Easy-to-use and intuitive user interface for digitizing, geographic referencing, reprojection, tiling, and mosaicking. Didger solves the problem of combining data files in different coordinate systems, by providing extensive tools to transform the data into one cohesive coordinate system. You can use Didger to precisely convert paper maps, graphs, aerial photographs, or any other plotted information
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Simply looking at the amount of operational (ERS-2, Radarsat-1, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X-1,COSMO-SkyMed 1) and forthcoming (Radarsat-2, COSMO-SkyMed 2-4, RISAT-1) civil spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems today, it is evident that the use of SAR images is no longer imited to a small research community. Moreover, these weather independent systems open new opportunities in the domain of
Monday, October 8th, 2007
FEHRL, the association of European national road research centres, is pleased to announce the final workshop of the New Road Construction Concepts (NR2C) project set to take place on November 16, 2007 in Brussels. Read More
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Eurovia, consortium leader, has been announced as winner of the contract to build a runway and hangars for the new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. The contract, worth €215 million, calls for building and developing one of the two take-off and landing runways, the taxiways and airplane parking area. The works, which will take from September 2007
Monday, October 8th, 2007
It has been with great pleasure that the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning has worked side by side with the World Road Association over the past three years to ensure the success of the 23rd World Road Congress. This Congress would not have been so successful without your presence. More than 5000
Monday, October 8th, 2007
CH2M HILL, a global full-service engineering, construction and operations firm, has released its 2007 Sustainability Report. The report describes the company’s activities in the areas of environment, people and community, and economic development. Notable accomplishments include the firm’s response to Hurricane Katrina, the largest cleanup and conversion of a nuclear site to developable land in
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Dassault Systemes (DS), a provider of 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, and Seemage, a company in the creation of 3D interactive product documentation, announced that Dassault Systemes recently acquired Seemage. The companies said the transaction will enable DS to provide innovative solutions addressing the growing demand of its customers in the diversified area
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Clipper Windpower Plc announced today that it has established a Centre of Excellence for Offshore Wind in Blyth, United Kingdom, to develop the world’s largest offshore wind turbine at 7.5 MW. The ‘Britannia Project’ has attracted support from the UK’s One NorthEast Regional Development Agency. The development of the 7.5 MW wind turbine will build
