Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Jefferson-Cocke County Utility District (JCCUD) is taking advantage of Esri’s Small Utility Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program to improve outage response and better meet regulatory requirements with the use of geographic information system (GIS) technology. The Newport, Tennessee, gas utility company serves 7,300 homes and businesses in two counties. Before the move to GIS, field crews had
Monday, August 30th, 2010
URISA seeks to encourage students in a variety of academic settings and disciplines to write and publish papers and projects for the URISA membership and others in the spatial technologies industry. To promote this objective URISA has established a student competition. URISA is pleased to announce the results of its 2010 Student Competition. This year’s
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Miranda Gold Corp. announces that a helicopter airborne magnetic survey has started over its Pavo Real project in the Tolima Department of Colombia. Miranda’s exploration funding partner at Pavo Real, Red Eagle Mining Corporation (“Red Eagle”) has a contract with MPX Geophysics, Ltd. to complete the survey. The survey goals are to identify intrusions and
Monday, August 30th, 2010
What do the Amazon peccaries, the African hippos and the North American bobcats have in common? According to a new web-based, research tool of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), they are among the top ten mammal species being sustainably traded around the world for their skins.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Serbia’s largest utility relies on Trimble GPS and GIS technology to collect data and create geosp atial database of medium-voltage utility network for more efficient maintenance andintelligent network planning. Home to more than 1.5 million people, Belgrade is the third largest and one of the oldest cities in Southeastern Europe. It is the capital of
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Spatial Information in the New Zealand Economy – Realising Productivity Gains is a report commissioned by Land Information New Zealand, the Department of Conservation and the Ministry of Economic Development. It provides robust economic analysis that quantifies the contribution spatial information makes to the New Zealand economy, as well as opportunities for this contribution to
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Work has started this week on a new Hydro energy initiative in Perthshire – the first of three small run-of-river hydro schemes in Glen Lyon to be developed by Aberfeldy-based Green Highland Renewables (GHR). Read More
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
It is the Kauring Airborne Gravity Test Site east of Perth which allows operators to test the capabilities of airborne gravity (AG), airborne gravity gradiometer (AGG) and other airborne sensing systems against gravity and magnetic anomalies. The anomolies have been defined by detailed ground and airborne surveys which will provide a high degree of accuracy to
Friday, August 27th, 2010
At the GI Norden Workshop in Selfoss, Iceland in June, GI Norden’s president Þorbjörg Kr. Kjartansdottir announced that the GI Norden Award of honour for 2010 will be given to Kirsi Virrantaus, Professor in geoinformatics and cartography at Aalto University in Finland. Read More
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Deliverables were: the Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) Harmonization Checker tool, the State of the Art of Maritime Information Management Research, and the Requirements Specification for the Maritime Data Collection System. The BLAST project group partners successfully produced all three project deliverables on time and within budget in the first six months of BLAST. ENC Harmonization Checker
