Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Andasol 3, the concentrated solar power plant built by a consortium of five German companies in the Spanish province of Granada, has been inaugurated. Solar Millennium holds inauguration ceremony for the Andasol 3 concentrated solar thermal power plant. Largest concentrated solar energy site on stream. Andasol concentrating solar power plants supply the electricity needs of half a
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Bombardier Transportation invites media representatives to a press conference at APTA EXPO 2011 where the global leader in rail solutions will be showcasing two of its most recent innovations in the field of urban mobility. Join us as Bombardier unveils its cutting-edge light rail vehicle (LRV) platform, for the North American market. This launch will
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
At the end of October a Soyuz will be launched from Europe’s Space Port in French Guiana for the first time, carrying into orbit the first pair of so-called IOV satellites. IOV stand for In-Orbit Validation: it’s the phase when the Galileo system will be assessed through tests using the operations of two experimental satellites
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Expressions of interest are invited from established suppliers of geographic information wishing to market and distribute marine and coastal data to the engineering, environmental and location based services sectors. The data products comprise raster images of the well-known and popular AdmiraltyChart series, marine topographic mapping and seabed surface models created and maintained by marine data specialists OceanWise. The data
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?
