Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Decision support tools for agriculture often require meteorological data as inputs, but data availability and quality are often problematic. Difficulties arise with daily solar radiation (SRAD) because the instruments require electronic integrators, accurate sensors are expensive, and calibration standards are seldom available. NASA’s Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (NASA/POWER; power.larc.nasa.gov) project estimates SRAD based on
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
AVEVA announced today that registration for the AVEVA World Summits 2011 is open. The Summits will be held in Copenhagen 17-19 October, Rio de Janeiro 25-27 October and Singapore 8–10 November. The AVEVA World Summits provide a collaborative forum for managers and decisions makers, with responsibility for strategic business operations. The Summit agenda is designed to
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, has promoted Uyen Dinh to vice president of Government Affairs. Dinh joined GeoEye in May 2007 as senior director of Government Affairs and is responsible for the overall development and execution of all government relations programs.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
More than a quarter of the local authorities in England and Wales have begun using a free online service from emapsite that supports the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA). Contractor Link by emapsite is a self-service portal for contractors. It enables government organisations to better manage their contractors’ access and use of licensed mapping. The
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced the winners in the 2011 Bentley Student Design Competition and named Maria-Paz Gutierrez, professor, University of California, Berkeley, as Bentley Educator of the Year. The Student Design Competition awards technically advanced projects created using Bentley software by university,
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
A computer-generated 3D model of the centre of Warrington, England, is supporting ambitious regeneration plans as part of the Borough Council’s Town Centre Urban Design Masterplan, which is currently in development. Created by aerial mapping company Bluesky the highly accurate model will be used to show how proposed town centre regeneration schemes would look after development. The
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Spectral Imaging, Ltd., announces that it has successfully delivered the world’s most compact, high-performance Long-Wave Infrared, LWIR Hyperspectral Imager to a Defence Customer in a strategic geographical location. The advanced chemical imaging capabilities will bring a new dimension to port and harbour airborne surveillance, and additionally to other defence and law enforcement applications. The strength of
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Aquire today announced the release of OrgPublisher 10.1, the newest version of the company’s intelligent organizational charting and workforce reporting software used by human resources professionals at thousands of enterprise companies around the globe. Multi-language publishing features and additional browser capabilities add versatility to the substantial upgrades launched in version 10.0 last December.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Timmons Group, a leader in geospatial consulting and application development, was recently selected by the United States Forest Service to develop the nation-wide Geospatial Activity and Accomplishment Tools (GAAT) enterprise solution for management planning and reporting.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Within the frames of the Black Sea oil pollutions monitoring program natural oil sources were detected in south-eastern part out at sea of the town of Poti, Georgia. The source was detected based on analysis of multi-temporal radar satellite images by the scientists of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology together with the specialists of the
