Friday, November 4th, 2011
The Siemens centre for urban sustainability, a knowledge hub, an education and exhibition facility, is currently under construction in London. Today, the company held the topping-out ceremony for the new building, an event attended by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Outstanding in both its architectural and environmental features, Siemens is investing around 30 million
Friday, November 4th, 2011
General Dynamics Canada and Envitia have renewed their longstanding partnership to perform ongoing research and development in next-generation tactical surveillance solutions for defence and aerospace applications. Building on the success of a 10-year partnership, the two companies will continue working together to deliver integrated tactical data management and digital mapping solutions to defence and aerospace
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Europe’s first two Galileo satellites have reached their final operating orbits, opening the way for activating and testing their navigation payloads. Marking the formal end of their LEOP Launch and Early Operations Phase, control of the satellites was passed yesterday from the CNES French space agency centre in Toulouse to the Galileo Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Suisse-based “Services Industrielles de Genève (SIG)”, the multi-utility for the city of Geneva, Switzerland, decided after a successful pilot phase to implement the AED-SICAD ArcFM UT product suite including sewage. SIG is also the supplier for the Canton Geneva, thus in total serving approx. 400 000 inhabitants. SIG has been working with GIS technologies since
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Snaking across multiple international boundaries and supporting everything from villages and farms to industry and cities, the Orange-Senqu River is one of the most important natural resources in southern Africa. The complexity and significance of the Orange-Senqu basin made it a clear focus for the Aqueduct project, which aims to measure and map physical, reputational,
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Cambridge Silicon Radio (C.S.R.), a company best-known for Bluetooth technology, has announced a navigation chip that pulls in data from a multiplicity of sources in a way that should improve the quality of satnav information. But its really clever trick is that it should operate indoors. Read More
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Astrium, the European space industry leader, is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the 2nd Soyuz launcher to lift off from Kourou. The six satellites: Pléiades 1 is the first of two very high-resolution satellites manufactured by Astrium Satellites in Toulouse for CNES (the French Space Agency). It will
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Part of human fascination with space is the chance to look back at our own planet from afar. The unique vantage from the International Space Station affords a vista both breathtaking and scientifically illuminating. Here on Earth, both scientists and spectators rely on the station’s crew to record and transmit images and videos of what
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com ) announces they have acquired Global Mapper LLC of Parker, CO. Blue Marble and Global Mapper share the same common goal of offering powerful user friendly GIS software to all types of users. This merger promises to bring new and exciting tools to Blue Marble and Global Mapper users in the
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Nova Scotia Power is the province’s main electricity provider, serving 490,000 residential and business customers. To deliver better service, the utility built OneGIS, a Web portal that leverages ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The solution, which centralizes all of the utility’s spatial asset data and makes it accessible throughout the organization, allows them to better
