Friday, September 30th, 2011
A display of the latest designs for the West Kowloon Cultural District has opened in Hong Kong. This is the third and final public engagement exercise and will last for a month, after which the scheme will be finalised for submission to the Town Planning Board around the end of 2011. Foster + Partners’ masterplan is
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Seen as ideal for shallow water wind turbine construction work, four specially designed leaner versions of the Saab Seaeye Cougar XT ROV have been ordered by Pommec, the leading Netherlands-based technology provider to the diving industry. Custom designed to be both low profile and powerful enough to handle the strong currents found in the shallow waters
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Getmapping which has been pioneering WMS (Web Mapping Service) services in Britain is now the force behind the AeroGRID consortium’s provision of Pan-European Imagery via WMS. AeroGRID’s WMS imagery hosted by Getmapping now includes over 2 million km² of 12.5cm to 50cm resolution imagery of Europe including the whole of Benelux, Britain, France, Germany, Spain,
Friday, September 30th, 2011
NDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, has completed a rigorous two year analysis into GeoVisionary and has given the system the official go-ahead. GeoVisionary will act as an umbrella 3D visualisation system for data from various sources; principally Andra’s Geo database, which holds samples and geoscientific data and SAGD, a database which holds
Friday, September 30th, 2011
2011 Global Partner Conference of GeoEye company – the Operator of highly detailed RS satellites – was held in San-Francisco (California, USA). It was attended by representatives of RapidEye (Germany), Japan Space Imaging (Japan), ESRI (USA), ERDAS (USA), ScanEx RDC (Russia), Gesecology (Chile), etc. At the end of the conference GeoEye representatives handed in memorial
Friday, September 30th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and EuroGeographics recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote interoperability through open standards to benefit the European geospatial community?
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The spotlight shone on ESRI Canada at the Ontario Business Achievement Awards (OBAA) as the company received the Innovation Award for 2011. Sponsored by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the OBAA recognizes outstanding businesses in the province that have demonstrated innovation and entrepreneurship. Out of hundreds of nominations, ESRI Canada was selected for advancing the
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Aerial mapping company Bluesky is urging property owners to get independent assessments of solar potential following press reports of rogue traders and mis-selling. The consumer watchdog Which? invited certified companies to quote for a domestic solar panel installation and found three quarters overestimated how much energy the panels would produce while most underestimated the time
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is sponsoring the 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Cape Town next week – the company’s experts are eager to share their vision for cost effective innovation during the five-day congress.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and EuroGeographics recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote interoperability through open standards to benefit the European geospatial community. The two organizations both seek to promote compatible, standards-based Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) from the local to global level, and the OGC is positioned to help EuroGeographics support a
