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Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Siemens Technologies Contribute to Skanska Headquarters

Automated buildings utilising modern technologies that help lower operating expenses and environmental impacts are gradually becoming the standard. One of them is the Opatov Park I administrative centre, which has become the new headquarters of construction and development company Skanska. Siemens participated in the construction of the complex, whose technologies enable the central operation of

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Space and Monitoring of Fires in Aerospace School, Yakutia

The Physico-Mathematical Lyceum “Lensky Krai” became the venue of the V (anniversary) aerospace school “The road to space”. Over 150 children and students from 20 different settlements (regions) of the republic studied physics, mathematics, history of cosmonauts and basics of Earth remote sensing from space. The lessons in the aerospace school were supported by ScanEx

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water Deploys Bentley’s ProjectWise

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is deploying Bentley’s ProjectWise project team collaboration platform to improve its work sharing, better manage all engineering content, better leverage its existing hydraulic models for its water and wastewater networks, and reduce costs.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

GIS Technology Plays Important Role to Improve the Wine Industry

Great wines come from combining site selection with appropriate viticulture and winemaking skills and style. But now geographic information systems (GIS) technology plays an important role in the wine industry. GIS technology is used to create spatial data (maps) that provide valuable information to differentiate and add value to the wine products.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Draft Guidelines for the Procurement of Commercial Geospatial Products Released by ASPRS

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) today released a draft “Guidelines for Procurement of Commercial Geospatial Mapping Products”. The material is considered DRAFT FOR REVIEW and is being published at this time to encourage wide dissemination and comment.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Climate Change Conference of the Parties

The intergovernmental negotiation process primarily encompasses the Conference of the Parties (COP), the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), Subsidiary Bodies meetings and a series of workshops. The COP is the “supreme body” of the Convention. The CMP is the “supreme body” of the Kyoto Protocol. The Convention established two permanent subsidiary bodies: the Subsidiary Body for

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

ObjectFX Bought by Private Equity Firm

Minneapolis-based ObjectFX, LLC, a provider of location-based technology and software, on Thursday announced that it has been acquired by TransVoyant, LLC, a group of private equity investors from Alexandria, Virginia. The company said that it will maintain its offices in Minneapolis and has opened offices in Alexandria, Virginia. ObjectFX’s consultants and developers create solutions designed to help

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

New Liquid XML Studio

Liquid XML Studio provides the ability to author, edit, transform, debug, and validate XML documents. It has an easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI) providing a graphical view, text view or split view of your documents for ultimate productivity. The Graphical XML Editor simplifies the job of authoring and validating XML documents. It allows intuitive editing of XML data in

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

ASPRS Encourages Adoption of the National Land Imaging Program

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is working actively to support establishment of the National Land Imaging Program (NLIP), a long-range operational moderate resolution imaging program. For the past several years, ASPRS has strongly supported the NLIP strategy through continuing communication with the Administration and Congress, and fully endorses its immediate implementation.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

de Bruin Spatial Technologies Takes Delivery of Optech ALTM Orion

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar, aerial digital camera and survey instruments, announced today that de Bruin Spatial Technologies, based in Mount Gambier, South Australia, has taken delivery of Optech’s ALTM Orion M-Series airborne laser scanning system.