Monday, December 27th, 2010
From over 500 kilometres up, as TerraSAR-X looks down on its icy surface, the Antarctic’s Nimrod Glacier looks like molten metal. During its flight over the Antarctic, the German Aerospace Centre’s (DLR) radar satellite is one of the few that can direct its view over this glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains. Researchers can use these
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Dartmouth College is installing a Spinwave Systems mesh network based on Spinwave sensors to monitor and manage its heating, cooling and electrical systems across the campus, the company announced today. The Spinwave system encompasses more than 200 pulse counters to transmit data every 15 minutes from meters in 125 college buildings spread out over 250 acres on the Dartmouth campus
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The latest version is required for all UK & ROI Building Regulations projects. The latest version is required for all UK & ROI Building Regulations projects. Read More
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Topcon Positioning Systems’ (TPS) TopSURV 8, the newest version of the popular TopSURV field controller software series, has enhancements to increase productivity on a variety of survey jobs. The new software provides significant new functionality on cross-section staking on roads, import and export of road strings, graphical user interface, multiple new map views, file import/export, in-field
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Maxim Integrated Products announces the MAX2667/MAX2669, the newest additions to its GPS/GNSS low-noise amplifier (LNA) family. Designed using Maxim’s advanced SiGe processes, these fully integrated LNAs feature an exceptionally low noise figure of 0.65dB. This improves receive sensitivity and read range over discrete or highly integrated CMOS solutions.
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Green architect and co-author of the pivotal green design handbook Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough is one of the founders of the green design movement and one of the preeminent thought-leaders of our time. We recently had the opportunity to speak with Bill at the GreenBuild 2010 Conference about his work and the future of
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
Scientists from around the world have been hearing about the latest results from ESA’s new GOCE, SMOS and CryoSat Earth observation missions at the biggest scientific gathering of the year. Attracting around 18 000 scientists, researchers, teachers, students and consultants to review developments in Earth and space science, the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
Late November saw the first Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting to be held in the southern hemisphere take place at the University of Sydney. Attendees gathered for a week of standards and domain working group meetings.
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
Landscape Analysis has traditionally been primarily a map reading task. Today, maps and mapping are digital, as are geographical information of many other types. Geographic information systems (GIS) make efficient management of data possible, thus facilitating many different types of analysis and modelling. Landscape change, environmental monitoring and mapping, as well as environmental issues in
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
For updating to the 5.* version from 4.* key reprogramming is required. Please send inquiry in technical support for updating. The 5.* version will be installed into the new directory. Possibility of work with the existing version of the system remains. Read More
