Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Robotic Total Station, Scanner, Digital Cameras and Machine Control. The new Topcon Imaging Station has it all! The newest addition to Topcon’s robotic total station series – the Topcon Imaging Station — now offers the added productivity and versatility of integrated digital imaging, a world’s first technology Topcon introduced in 2005 with its GPT-7000i total
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
The University of Cantabria, based in Santander, Northern Spain, has joined the growing number of European universities and other further education establishments using AutoCAD Civil 3D for both teaching and pioneering development work. Students of the university’s civil engineering and industrial engineering courses are using the infrastructure design software for a wide range of work
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
The ToolBox is a compendium of good practices related to the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management presented under a structured reference framework. The ToolBox allows water related professionals, to discuss, analyse the various elements of the IWRM process and facilitates the prioritization of actions aimed at improving the water governance and management. The IWRM
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
A NATO working group has now established common standards on the technical integrity of design and construction for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These common standards were recently drawn up in the framework of NATO’s Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD). Currently, special fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles with a take-off weight between 150 kilograms to 20,000
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Malmö, Sweden – The Sustainable City Development Conference 2007 was held recently and final conclusions of the conference have been published. With the main theme “Making sustainability attractive” the conference, Sustainable City Development 2007, was opened for the second time in Malmö with about 450 delegates from 48 different countries. Read More
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
THE INDEPENDENT – There is a “strong case” for a sustainable Severn barrage to be built – but only if it is a public project which complies with environmental laws, a report has found. The Sustainable Development Commission report revealed tidal power could supply at least 10 per cent of the UK’s electricity if fully
Monday, October 1st, 2007
A Seminar and a Workshop on Development Cooperation – Geoinformation for Sustainable Development will take place, respectively, on October 11 and 12 in Brussels. The main aim of the events is to raise awareness regarding the important role which geo-information can play in supporting sustainable development in developing countries. The seminar will for example interrogate
Monday, October 1st, 2007
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 115 : Relevance of Geography Read More
Monday, October 1st, 2007
You’ll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter–built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies. Project Blackbox applies Sun’s trademark innovation, network computing infrastructure and HPC expertise to engineer out complexity and
Monday, October 1st, 2007
REUTERS – Although 60 percent of urban dwellers in developing nations have been crime victims in the past five years, the general fear of criminal and terrorist attack is out of proportion to actual levels of violence, the agency UN-HABITAT said in a 2007 report. This in turn prompts people and planners to focus far
