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Monday, February 14th, 2011

Toreador Agrees Interim Way Forward with French Government in Paris Basin Tight Rock Oil Program

Toreador Resources Corporation today announced that its subsidiary Toreador Energy France and its partner, Hess Oil France SAS, (“Partners”) along with select other energy industry companies in France, met with France’s Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Energy to discuss the government’s decision to instruct the General Council of Industry, Energy and Technology (CGIET)

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Tekla Gives Professional BIM Application for Everyone in Construction

To make an impact on the construction industry, 3D modeling software provider Tekla is launching a new advanced application for building information model-based project communication and cooperation. Tekla BIMsight is ready for everyone in the industry to download and share over the Internet for free. Now contractors, designers, architects, MEP detailers and fabricators can combine

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Protected Planet, UN Online Mapping Application, Built with Open Source Geospatial Technologies

Protected Planet, an interactive mapping website launched in October, provides information and media on protected areas across the world.  Developers from the United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) built the server-side components of the application, while front-end development and visual design was handled by Vizzuality, a Madrid-based company that specializes in biodiversity informatics. 

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Normalization Extension for gvSIG 1.10 Available

The normalization extension is now available for gvSIG 1.10. This version is the previous one, but it has been updated to work on gvSIG 1.10, and allows to separate chains of text in different parts and storing them in table fields. These chains of text can have their origin in plain text files or in

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Bing Spatial Data Services API

Bing Spatial Data Services, a next generation spatial search offering added to the Bing API. This new service offers the benefits of cloud hosting and distributed computing, allowing customers to upload their data to Microsoft’s servers and perform spatial queries under the umbrella of their existing Bing Maps License. The blog here provides further information. In addition,

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Luxion Releases KeyShot 2.2

Luxion, the leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and makers of KeyShot, the first realtime ray tracing and global illumination program, today announced the release of KeyShot 2.2 as a free upgrade to the groundbreaking KeyShot 2 application introduced last summer.

Friday, February 11th, 2011

OnAsset Intelligence Named Best-of-Show at ITEXPO East 2011

OnAsset Intelligence Inc.wireless asset tracking, sensing, and control solutions, today announced that its SENTRY wireless tracking solution received TMC’s Best-of-Show award at last week’s ITEXPO in Miami.

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Researchers Map Out Ice Sheets Shrinking During Ice Age

These maps show the rate at which the ice sheet over the British Isles during the last Ice Age melted. The ka on the images is short for thousand years and BP is ‘before present.’ So 27 Ka BP is the map of the ice sheet at 27,000 years ago. Read More

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Satellites Locate Seized Italian Oil Tanker

The Cosmo-SkyMed satellites, operated by the Italian space agency, have acquired the first images of the Italian oil tankerSavina Caylyn since it was hijacked earlier this week by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. According to the satellite radar images, acquired by Italian space agency (ASI) and e-GEOS on Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning, the

Friday, February 11th, 2011

JPL Airborne Sensor to Study ‘Rivers in the Sky’

To improve our understanding of how atmospheric rivers form and behave and evaluate the operational use of unmanned aircraft for investigating these phenomena, NASA scientists, aircraft and sensors will participate in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-led airborne field campaign slated to begin Feb. 11. Called Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers, or WISPAR, the