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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
UBC master’s students Samantha Brennan and Aidan Whiteley—with the guidance of their cartography and society professor, Jon Corbett—are still engaged in the research project they began as undergraduate students in 2009. When the Okanagan campus undergrads realized that forest fire maps were inaccessible to the public, they enlisted Corbett’s help in building a fire-mapping tool
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The astonishing story of a Norman town lost for centuries is being brought back to life. Cutting edge LIDAR technology, deployed by armed forces to detect underground bunkers, has uncovered the streets, towns and dwellings of an early Norman settlement known as Newtown just outside Thomastown. Within 15 miles of Kilkenny, the medieval settlement has been the
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
First Call for Papers – The interdisciplinary GI_Forum focuses on an international audience, communicating in English, and sharing an interest in translating theory, methods and techniques into a broad range of GI application domains. Young researchers are especially invited to contribute and discuss their research; together with established scientists they will find a vibrant community from
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Apisphere, Inc., the company behind Geomate.jr (www.mygeomate.com), an easy to use GPS-based geocaching device, has teamed with SDG Creations, Ltd. to offer a GPS and geocaching-based curriculum written by a teacher for teachers called Educaching (www.educaching.com). The object of Educaching is to get teachers and students out of the classroom to experience a fun and
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
FARO Technologies, Inc. and KOREC, a specialist of surveying applications, have signed an agreement. Under these terms KOREC will supply the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D. FARO is delighted to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with KOREC to supply the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D Laser Scanner, an instrument which uses laser technology to produce
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
FARO announces the availability of the new version of SCENE WebShare, its powerful tool for easy and safe sharing of scan data over the Internet. Thanks to WebShare scan projects can be published on a web server with only one click. WebShare permits easy access and sharing of laser scans generated with a FARO Focus3D within
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
A new joint agreement has been struck between Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and Shell UK Limited (Shell) for the development of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at SSE’s gas-fired power station in Peterhead. The agreement will enable the project to accelerate a programme of pre-FEED (front-end engineering design) studies, with the intention that
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The Vancouver Police Department maintains peace and order in British Columbia’s largest city, which has over half a million residents and is a popular venue for large events. To support their focus on intelligence-led policing, they deployed ESRI’s enterprise geographic information system (GIS) technology that provides users across their organization with better access to mission-critical data,
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the immediate commercial availability of its new AECOsim Energy Simulator software and commercial availability in early Q1 2012 of its new AECOsim Building Designer software (currently in Bentley’s early adopter program). AECOsim Compliance Manager for LEED certification was released in May. The AECOsim family of products provides interdisciplinary building design, analysis, and simulation software focused on helping architectural,
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
With more and more councils now shifting their costly face to face and phone transactions online, Herefordshire Council announces it has chosen Dotted Eyes’ web mapping solution to enable residents to instantly visualise planning applications in their area, replacing legacy technology. Residents within Herefordshire will soon be able to use the council’s website to easily pinpoint
