Sunday, October 7th, 2007
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK – The EIB has renewed its policy on lending to the transport sector. As in all areas of EIB activity, transport lending has been driven by EU policy. In the present context of heightened attention to climate change the Bank is committed to a review of its lending approach in the transport
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
EnOcean GmbH will demonstrate its innovative self-powered wireless sensor technology for intelligent green buildings on Stand C22 at M&E 2007, The Building Services Event, taking place 10-11 October, Olympia, London. Powered by energy drawn from light, movement or even changes in temperature, EnOcean’s technology is rapidly becoming accepted as the standard for innovative sensor solutions
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
STATKRAFT – Statkraft has decided to build the world’s first prototype osmotic power plant. The company is also stepping up its initiatives to develop the technology further. Osmotic power is a renewable energy source. Calculations indicate that the technology could contribute around 1,600 TWh on a global basis annually. Read More
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
CubeWerx, a leading provider of spatial data warehousing and OGC compliant web services software products, today announced that it has implemented direct support for Google Earth in its Web Map Server product, CubeSERV-WMS. This new functionality will allow users of CubeWerx’ map servers and Google Earth to:
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Media Cybernetics announces the release of IQbase 2.5 scientific image management software. This image management software enables organizations to effectively store, query, and share large numbers of images and related data. Users can collaborate within their organization and with outside partners by sharing image data through their network or via the Internet.
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
1Spatial, in conjunction with Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland® (OSNI) are holding a half-day briefing that highlights the importance of managing spatial data quality whilst fully exploiting the use of the Northern Ireland Mapping Agreement (NIMA). The half-day briefing is ideal for those in the Public Sector who want to find out how to manage their
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Land use and land cover changes have significant impact on the environment and accordingly this topic has gained increasing political awareness during the last decade. Using modelling and simulation, we can increase our understanding of the land-use system and reduce uncertainty concerning decisions. The current paper describes the development of a grid based land-use simulation
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Historical maps are a vital and often used source in a variety of disciplines and applications. Since a decade or two, they have moved into the GIS-community. A large scanning project by Lantmäteriverket will make most of the maps in Sweden available as raster images. Two major projects have modelled the maps for storage in
Friday, October 5th, 2007
We present a visibility and dominance analysis used for a visual impact assessment of a planned high building located in a central area in Trondheim, Norway. Our visibility analysis results in cumulative viewsheds depicting from which areas one can see one or more of the viewpoints representing the planned high building and from where you
Friday, October 5th, 2007
What are the optimum number of contour levels in a sea floor map with coloured depth intervals? This question is answered in terms of information theory. Information theory computes the channel capacity of an information source as the di.erence between the map entropy and the degree of misinterpretations (equivocation). In order to get the parameters
