Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Within the framework of the GMES initiative, ESA is developing a series of ‘Sentinel’ satellites. As part of this development process, the Agency has released a call for Mission Advisory Group members for the Sentinel-5 Precursor mission.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
AVEVA announced today that SungDong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (SungDong) has extended its contract for the use of AVEVA Marine to drive the design of commercial vessels. The new licenses will be used throughout its four shipyards in Korea for the design and production of vessels which include bulk carriers, container carriers and FSOs (Floating Storage & Offloading). SungDong selected AVEVA as its key solution partner due to its outstanding record in hull
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
International architects Zaha Hadid, whose projects include the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, will be focusing on Business Information Modelling (BIM) good practice at a knowledge-sharing forum organised by Océ UK in London on 15 September from 8.30 to 11am.‘Utilising BIM’ is the theme of the free-to-attend event for architects at Océ’s London
Monday, September 12th, 2011
When a series of images acquired with the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X – operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) – are combined into a sequence, the result is truly amazing; even gas storage tanks can have an eventful life of their own. The position of their covers reveals
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Acision announced the first details of its Cloud Services Delivery Model, with solutions planned to be made available from October. Acision’s new approach to deploying Software as a Service (SaaS) will enable mobile operators to quickly and cost effectively respond to rapidly changing technology developments and end user preferences, by having the ability to access and
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Megha-Tropiques, the novel Indo-French climate satellite, is planned for launch on October 12. The 1,000-kg satellite – a combination of the Sanskrit ‘megha’ or cloud and the French word for the tropics – will give a better understanding of the crucial convection systems, humidity in the tropics, said ISRO’s Chairman, Dr K. Radhakrishnan. Read More
Monday, September 12th, 2011
In August, NZGO issued a Request for Information (RFI) to vendors asking them to provide product-specific guidance, as suppliers of GIS and other spatial products, to enable users across New Zealand to effectively participate in a spatial data infrastructure. This Chapter is a collation of the submissions received. The NZGO and LINZ appreciate the support of
Monday, September 12th, 2011
NASA’s twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT) Saturday, Sept. 10, to study the moon in unprecedented detail. GRAIL-A is scheduled to reach the moon on New Year’s Eve 2011, while GRAIL-B will arrive New Year’s
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a scanned print from the USGS
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
SpaceClaim has joined the ProSTEP iViP Association to work with global manufacturers and partners to set standards and drive open environments. The ProSTEP iViP Association has committed itself to developing innovative approaches to solving problems and modern standards for product data management and virtual product creation.
