Monday, December 13th, 2010
After several years of public debate and planning, construction has begun on the Milton-Madison Bridge along the Kentucky-Indiana border in the US. The work involves reinforcing the bridge’s original support piers as well as replacing the ageing superstructure with a wider and safer one.
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Virkisjökull is an outlet glacier draining the western flanks of Oraefajökull, the southern extremity of the Vatnajökull ice cap in south-east Iceland. The glacier is sensitive to climatic forcing due to a relatively low accumulation–ablation area ratio and significant altitudinal difference between summit and margin. The long-term BGS monitoring project at Virkisjökull aims to quantify glacial and geomorphological
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Deere & Co. completed the $900 million sale of its wind-energy business to a subsidiary of power generator Exelon Corp. The company said Friday it sold John Deere Renewables LLC to focus on its core farm-equipment business. Exelon, which is renaming the business Exelon Wind, said it was new to owning and operating wind projects
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
Eniro, the Nordic region’s largest search company, has switched to C3 Technologies’ new oblique aerial imaging solution for Eniro Maps of the top 30 cities in Sweden. Oblique images allow users to see the sides of buildings and other objects, which makes it much easier to recognize an address or a point of interest. By switching to
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
This new book, edited by Professor John Catt, and now published by the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, was planned as long ago as 1950, with a first draft started by Percy Evans, who died in 1973 before it was finished. The project was revived by John, who persuaded several specialists to complete their long-promised contributions,
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
The Czech Republic is to host the headquarters of the European Union’s planned Galileo satellite navigation (satnav) system, EU member states agreed on Friday. The system is meant to give the EU its own worldwide navigation system, similar to the US GPS and Russia’s GLONASS. EU officials see it as a crucial boost to the bloc’s
Friday, December 10th, 2010
An aircraft fitted with specially developed survey equipment is taking to the skies over Britain’s cities at night. Using a new super-sensitive thermal sensor Leicestershire based aerial mapping company Bluesky is capturing highly accurate measurements of heat loss from buildings. The results of these night-time thermal surveys will provide Local Authorities, energy providers and even
Friday, December 10th, 2010
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) AIMTC (Avon Information Management and Technology Consortium) HealthGIS has launched a new intranet mapping service to Primary Care Trust (PCT) clients in Avon, using Cadcorp GeognoSIS and Cadcorp SIS MapModeller. This new service – known as ‘HealthGIS Maps’ – has successfully delivered against its first project milestone, providing Pharmaceutical
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
In early December the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the ASPRS Foundation received an individual donation with a value of $90,000 to endow a new Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. The Award will be administered through ASPRS and funded by the ASPRS Foundation. In accordance with the wishes of the donor, who
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
The RS Suite of remotely sensed ground control points (RSGCP) from CompassData will allow for the collection of ground control points in areas of the world that were previously difficult, if not impossible, to map due to access or geopolitical influences. The RS Suite empowered by TerraSAR-X technology from Infoterra GmbH, makes mapping points in
