Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Apex Wind Energy (Apex) and Second Wind have announced the commencement of a multi-month wind farm optimization (WFO) campaign using two Triton advanced SoDAR systems at a utility scale wind project under development by Apex. This WFO represents the first case of multiple mobile ground-based wind measurement instruments being deployed simultaneously to verify several project
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
The EOL ZENITH collects and stores GPS timestamped wind data with automated transfer of the data. Check all your wind assessment sites directly with the build in Tower Management Tool (TMT). The perfect combination of data logger technology together with the most advanced software for wind assessment. Read More
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Technology has made it easy for anyone with an active imagination to design, make and sell a product, bypassing traditional manufacturing companies, Autodesk Chief Executive Carl Bass told CNBC Tuesday at the Wired Business Conference. Bass said it only takes a “cheap digital camera” and computer software for the creative to design products and then make them themselves
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
A new site, “open budget” has launched recently in Poland, sharing structured data on government budgets with the general public. PDF documents from the ministry of Finance have been converted into a structured dataset for everybody to use. The site appears to be a call for more transparency and openness within Polish government. The site
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
GRAPHISOFT announced today ArchiCAD 15, the latest version of its premium design software for architects. ArchiCAD 15 enriches architectural forms available for designers to unleash their creative minds. The new version also expands the scope of the BIM workflow to include renovation & refurbishment projects. “ArchiCAD 15 addresses architects in their native language with an
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The importance of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community is rising steadily. The OSM project is therefore enjoying heightened interest at INTERGEO, which will be held in Nuremberg from 27 to 29 September 2011, and is the topic of the first ever INTERGEO BarCamp. The broad-based and well-balanced conference program also includes many other highlights. The
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Working in close collaboration with the US Department of the Interior (DOI), Esri is pleased to announce the release of Landsat image services. These provide access to almost four decades’ worth of Global Land Survey (GLS) Landsat data developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and DOI’s US Geological Survey. Esri provides access
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., as part of its effort to assist in the reconstruction following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, has donated a TerraGo GeoPDF map atlas to the central Japanese government, disaster response headquarters and local governments. By utilizing TerraGo GeoPDF pre- and post-March 11 maps and imagery in residential damage assessment, clerical work
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies is honored to be visited by Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). The two parties had fruitful discussion about the geospatial applications and innovative collaboration by using GIS technologies. KISR was invited by Institute for Information Industry (III), an organization supporting the development of the information technology industry in Taiwan, to visit several
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
VisionMap LTD, a leading provider of digital mapping systems, announced today that A3 ground processing system version 2.0 is now released. The new ground processing system, together with A3 camera improvements now feature better radiometry, higher resolution DSM processing, as well as accurate AT and seamless Orthophoto generation processed in a fully automatic workflow. The
