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
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
The new version of ArcGIS Explorer, a free geographic information system (GIS) viewer, opens more avenues for users to share geographic information. It also has many new interoperability updates that help integrate it with ArcGIS 10, including direct support for image services, improved support for ArcGIS 10 layer packages and geodatabases, and more ways to leverage ArcGIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Nearing the end of its third month of continuous operation, the International Space Station’s ship-tracking experiment has experienced a marked increase in data quality. Now it operates along with a dedicated satellite carrying the same receiver. The Station’s Columbus laboratory is being used to track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships at sea. AIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Lockheed Martin today congratulated the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the 50-year anniversary of the first Corona photo reconnaissance satellite image from space, which ushered in new space-based capabilities for the nation. First developed as a joint U.S. Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency program to provide surveillance from space
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Computer-generated 3D city models from Bluesky are helping Mott MacDonald deliver safe, sustainable and user-friendly civil infrastructure projects. The highly accurate and detailed models are being used by the worldwide consultancy to give a better understanding of the wind environment around urban infrastructure projects. By creating highly complex engineering models Mott MacDonald simulates the flow
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Simon Thompson, director of global business solutions, Esri, asks retailers to raise the bar and start reflecting local flavors and themes in the stores they open. “On my last drive across Kansas, it wasn’t the wheat fields or the flatness that amazed me but the repetitive retail landscape,” Thompson explains. “It seemed that every small
