Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
To sustainably manage Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), forest owners and administrators use ArcGIS to study forest conditions and surrounding infrastructure. GIS helps them identify areas that are most suitable for industrial timber production and make informed decisions for sustainable forest management. NRW has approximately 900,000 hectares of private and municipal forestland next to a high-density population
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Berlin-based map app service Skobbler wants to grab a share of the offline mobile map market before the other web giants wade in with their own connection-free platforms. Skobbler this week launched the latest version of its detailed map system, ForeverMap, giving users the ability to browse mobile maps of any country in Europe but
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Land use and land cover changes, including legal and illegal deforestation, are amongst the most important factors that contribute to the social and environmental challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. Deforestation alone is responsible for about 12% of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, whereas another 6% stems from peat oxidation and fires
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
If guide books ever bothered being honest, they’d look a lot like Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Rebecca Solnit’s dark, cartographic poem to the Bay Area. The book — a collection of maps and essays written by both Solnit and others — reads like an alternative field guide to a city known to outsiders primarily through
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Abengoa Solar announced today that it has finalized $1.45 billion financing to build Solana, the world’s largest parabolic trough concentrating solar plant. This plant, with a total investment of around $2 Billion, will generate 250 net megawatts (MW). Santiago Seage, CEO of Abengoa Solar, stated, “Solana is the first large scale CSP plant for Abengoa
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
The Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) market, a growing segment of the larger building efficiency industry, is quickly gaining momentum as an effective means for end-users to implement energy efficiency applications in commercial buildings. Such solutions range from reactive energy efficiency optimization software to predictive supply and demand side energy management architectures. According to a new report
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that VIASAT GeoTechnologies has signed a distributor agreement with RapidEye to join its distributors team in Canada. Joerg Widmer, Sales Executive of RapidEye, commented “We have already worked on significant data projects with VIASAT GeoTechnologies in the past and lookforward to
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Japan Broadcasting Association Web site reported that the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute is based on satellite images, there is a dispute between Japan and Russia under the “northern territories” topography, to map out the local version of topographic map. Appear on topographic maps reflect the new buildings and roads, some new information. reported previously, due to
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Corporate Geo-Informatics realises the strategic value of geographic information and is committed to managing it as a corporate resource. The unit uses its geographic information systems (GIS) and associated resources to improve the quality of its products, to streamline its processes and to improve services. The unit provides geographic feature maps and detailed information, including
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
ESRI Canada today announced that the City of Lévis has signed a three-year enterprise license agreement (ELA) that will enable the municipality to cost-effectively expand its use of ESRI technology and establish an enterprise geographic information system (GIS). The GIS will help optimize the use of the City’s land information and other location-based data by enabling
