Monday, November 29th, 2010
As part of the procedure to realize ESA’s series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be the eighth Earth Explorer, both address key climate and environmental change issues. The selection follows ESA’s Call for Earth Explorer Proposals that was
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Cartographica is designed for people who need to work with geospatial data to create maps, analyze data, convert between formats, and discover new information about your data and the world in which it exists. As such, we have emphasized easy importation, exploration, analysis, and output in the design of Cartographica and hope that you find
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Bridge enthusiasts are now able to get a preview of the fixed link that might one day connect Germany and Denmark. The conceptual design, which was recently released by Femern A/S, features a cable-stayed bridge that spans 19 kilometres of the Baltic Sea. If commissioned, the bridge will rank among the world’s longest cable-stayed structures with two main spans
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Finmeccanica and Russian Railways (RZD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Rome for industrial programmes in the areas of railway signalling, telecommunications, automation and safety & security. The agreement relates to the supply of technology for 100 stations, 100 vehicles and 50 railway lines by 2020 for a combined value that could be up
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Senator Edgardo J. Angara said that the establishment of the Disaster Science Management Center (DSMC) should be a national priority in order to better prepare the nation for the dealing with the multiple disasters that hit the country. “We need the DSMC to help us prepare for the typhoons and similar disasters that will continue to
Friday, November 26th, 2010
On November 23, 11 colleagues around the world from GRAPHISOFT, Arktec, DDS-CAD, and Tekla Structures demonstrated the power of Open Collaboration without borders. These professionals in Birmingham, Boston, Budapest, Helsinki, Madrid, Munich, Oslo, and Sydney used the GRAPHISOFT BIM Server to successfully demonstrate how Delta Server™ technology reduces network traffic to a minimum for instant
Friday, November 26th, 2010
As the coordinator of Day 0 at the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair, I (Nadia) wanted to expose participants to a mix of tools and methods that they could use to ‘make their ag knowledge travel’ in a feasible, realistic and meaningful way for their particular activities, in their contexts and for the people with whom
Friday, November 26th, 2010
As part of the procedure to realise ESA’s series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be the eighth Earth Explorer both address key climate and environmental change issues. The selection follows ESA’s Call for Earth Explorer Proposals that was
Friday, November 26th, 2010
European Space Imaging, a leading provider of very high-resolution satellite imagery, and Indra Espacio, a leading company in the Spanish space sector today announced that the two companies successfully completed a multi-year supply project to the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The supply project, with Indra Espacio as main contractor, started in September 2008 and involved the
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
By Stan Aronoff and co-authored with Dr. Bob Ryerson entitled “Why where Matters: Understanding and profiting from GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing”. This book is a less technical book addressed to the business and public policy communities and is also written for the general reader with an interest in how the new geospatial technologies including GPS,
