Friday, August 12th, 2011
A three-month consultation period is about to start on which parts of the Scottish Borders should be designated “special landscape areas” and given extra protection when it comes to development. The proposed map includes eight areas – the Tweedsmuir uplands, the Tweed valley, the Tweed, Ettrick and Yarrow confluences, the Teviot valleys, the Lammermuirs, the Berwickshire
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
NVIDIA today announced it plans to appoint Steve Scott, a longtime Cray Inc. executive, to help spearhead the company’s high performance computing initiative. As chief technology officer (CTO) for NVIDIA’s Tesla™ business unit, Scott will be responsible for the Tesla roadmap and architecture. Tesla is rapidly becoming a fundamental technology in accelerated high performance computing and is
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Until now both Google and Yandex seemed unchallengeable in their aggressive push to provide millions of curious Russians with satellite snapshots of places and neighborhoods. But that may be about to change, though the challenge, this time, appears to be coming from a most unexpected quarter: the Federal Agency for Registration, which is the Russian
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Interview with Sanjiv Ahuja, the former Orange head now CEO of LightSquared, which is building a wholesale LTE project in the face of opposition from the GPS industry. At the same time he is chairman of Augere Holdings, with spectrum covering 500m people in Asia and Africa. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray. Read More
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
I applaud efforts by Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) in educating the public on the advantages and wealth of knowledge one can derive from Google Earth (GE). I have long been a proponent of GE as a tool to measure the rapid and rampant plundering of our precious forests. I am sad to say that we probably
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Further steps on the path to a green economy that Government and businesses can take have been published today in order to make further progress towards strong sustainable growth. ‘Enabling the transition to a green economy: Government and Businesses working together’ looks ahead to 2020 and maps out planned Government action across areas including climate change, resource
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
In many cases, the claims management process is an insurer’s largest business expense. Mark McCoy, Esri’s global insurance industry manager, proposes a solution that will help improve costs with a workflow based on GIS, and he asks others to weigh in at the Spatial Roundtable.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
The EURIPIDES Forum, the yearly conference organised by the EUREKA Cluster for smart system EURIPIDES, took place in Helsinki last June. The Forum attracted a large number of participants and high-level speakers. The Forum highlighted new technological trends in various application fields such as intelligent machines and sensing solutions, and in the markets of telecommunication, health and energy.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
The African Regional Preparatory meeting of the Global Geospatial Management Initiative opened this Monday August 8 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The three-day meeting – being attended by experts from African countries and from international organisations – will assess the key challenges, opportunities and constraints relating to geospatial information management in Africa;
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
New European research has shown that a North Sea wind farm has little negative effect on the fauna around it. In fact, researchers found that the presence of the wind farm actually provided a new natural habitat for organisms living on the seabed. Researchers in the Netherlands from IMARES (Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies)
