Monday, March 19th, 2012
The Prime Minister will reveal later that the Government is to look into the possibility of using private companies to invest in England’s road network. David Cameron will announce he has asked the Department for Transport and the Treasury to carry out a feasibility study of new financing models. Read More
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Sokkia announces a new reflectorless total station – the FX – that includes on-board MAGNET™ Field application software, a telematics-based communications module TSshield, and a long-range wireless communications system utilizing Bluetooth® Class 1 technology.
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Just days after the somber one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 16,000 people in 2011, Japan was struck by two new earthquakes.On Wednesday, a 6.8 magnitude quake hit Japan‘s northern Hokkaido Island. It was followed hours later by a 6.1 magnitude tremor in the Chiba Prefecture, which is directly south of Tokyo
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that ProjectWise V8i and Bentley Navigator V8i have each won a commercial 2012 Constructech Top Products award in the “Trusted Products” category. The award honors technology solutions that have demonstrated the greatest innovations geared toward the construction market. Products and solutions eligible for the Trusted Products category comprise core technology offerings
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Going into space may be a dream out of reach for us mere mortals, but here’s the next best thing: You can develop an app using data sets from NASA. The International Space Apps Challenge will be held in Jakerta, Indonesia from 21st to 22nd April to attract developers to collaborate together and create app
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Russia plans to install ground support stations for its GLONASS global satellite positioning system in 34 countries across the globe, Russian Space Systems General Director and General Designer Yury Urlichich said. “We are considering 34 countries in which the stations can be installed. There are a lot of such countries. Negotiations with Australia are likely
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
India will produce navigation equipment for the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system. M2MTelematika Director Alexei Smyatskikh, who is in charge of the project to set up the production of the GLONASS equipment in India, says that this will bring down the costs. Read More
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
The House of Representatives has approved a bill mandating the Land Management Bureau to conduct a fresh survey of land titles to separate the bonafide landowners from fake land claimants. The House approved on second reading House Bill 5870 or the “Cadastral Survey Act of 2012″ requiring the implementation of a nationwide cadastral survey aimed at
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will OK 1,298 new eastern Utah gas wells proposed by Gasco Energy, according to a final environmental study released Friday. Once drilled, the expanded Uinta Basin field would represent a significant boost to a gas industry that already has sunk more than 6,000 wells in the state, and Gov. Gary
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
On the FIG web site we publish each month a paper called the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors. It can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in February 2012 is written by Chryssy Potsiou and Ifigenie Boulaka Greece:Informal Development
