Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) in the People’s Republic of China is using ERDAS IMAGINE StereoSAR DEM and IMAGINE SAR Interferometry for a surveying and mapping project in western China. The project is being conducted by five of the provincial branches of the SBSM, and involves surveying 200,000 square kilometers of land
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies today announces a new spinoff company, EMCT, to provide specialized environmental consulting services using GIS technologies. The newly established company, Environmental Management Consultant Technologies Inc. (EMCT), used to be a project team focusing on the consulting services in the fields of environment, public health, agriculture, etc. The main clients are government sectors and private
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
In a first for a UK local authority, Bristol City Council have awarded Blom UK, and their German partner Sun-Area, the contract to provide a detailed, interactive solar potential map of the entire city. The map will be integrated with their website to allow local property and business owners to find out if their buildings
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
ClueTrust today announces support for information-rich exports from Cartographica to Avenza’s newly-released MAPublisher 8.4 for use with Adobe Illustrator. Cartographica 1.2.2, the Geographic Information System (GIS) for Mac OS X, provides a complete set of tools which enable the user to explore, analyze, and present geospatial data. The solution combines Cartographica’s ease of use for
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery in the historic centre of Bath. The outdoor
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
A small Glasgow technology firm has been recruited to play an important part in the drive to help clean up the sprawling metropolis of London. Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) has won a £2.9 million contract to supply the software that it developed to help link wind farms and electric cars with the national grid for use
Monday, March 7th, 2011
TrafficCast International, Inc. today announced that Econolite Canada, Inc. will distribute its BlueTOAD™ line of products, enabling localized sales services and technical support in the ten provinces and three territories of Canada. Econolite Canada is an innovator of transportation management solutions and represents a wide range of advanced technology products, including traffic signal controllers, traffic management
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Garmin International Inc., announced the G1000H, an all-glass avionics system designed specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market. The G1000H provides important flight data — flight instrumentation, navigation, communication, weather, terrain, traffic, identification, and diagnostics and maintenance computer — and presents it digitally to the pilot on large, high-resolution displays. “The G1000H is a highly flexible
Monday, March 7th, 2011
The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) measurement standard has been chosen by Government organisations in three continents as the common standard for measuring the energy efficiency of data centres. This will allow data centre operators to measure, calculate, improve and communicate the energy efficiencies of their data centres worldwide. Read More
Monday, March 7th, 2011
North American harbours are not effective enough for Maersk to place its new behemoth ships on routes to the continent, according to managing director Eivind Kolding. Kolding’s comments came as the company announced it had ordered ten ships, each with a capacity of 18,000 20-foot containers and a length of 400 metres. Maersk also has the
