Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Student architects are discovering inspiring new ways to perform in teams, even across great distances using the Internet as a virtual design studio. Forty college students from North America recently demonstrated the power of long-distance collaborative design using GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD to co-design fictional projects such as visitor centers for Alcatraz, monuments for Detroit, and facilities
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Extending its best-in-class logistics and transportation management capabilities, Oracle today announced the integration of Oracle® Transportation Management 6.1 with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0. The seamless integration of Oracle Transportation Management 6.1 with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 allows customers to benefit from a single platform designed to lower transportation costs, reduce operational inefficiencies and
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Flash floods by the concentrated heavy rains occurred on June 15, 2010 (UTC) at the department of Var in the southern France, and this caused great damage. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have performed the emergency observation to monitor the state of the damage by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Some 120,000 ambulance, fire and emergency response operations are coordinated each year in the central situation center of the professional fire department in Essen, Germany using command and control software from Siemens. As one of many thousands of examples around the world, the situation center of the Ruhr region metropolis stands for Siemens’ initiative to
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Downloadable Navionics® charts from Fugawi X-Traverse are now compatible with Fugawi Marine ENC and Geonav MapMaster software for Windows 7, Vista or XP (Download Update Here) as well asMacENC for Mac OS X. Navionics Gold, HotMaps® and Fish’N’Chip charts are all available for direct download. No more time spent waiting for your charts to arrive or shipping costs to
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
BBC – Together with its twin satellite TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X will spend three years collecting stereo radar data for a global digital elevation model of the Earth’s entire landmass. This DEM will feature a global homogeneity and a relative accuracy of better than 2 m (10 m absolute) for a 12 m grid. Infoterra will be
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) recently announced release of the first public version of Louisiana Earth, an emergency planning resource to provide public access to near real time mapping information during disasters. The application relays critical information on response and recovery efforts for the Deepwater Horizon Rig incident, providing the
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Esri Press is proud to expand its cartographic classics series with The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design by Arthur H. Robinson. The series also includes Cartographic Relief Presentation by Eduard Imhof and the soon-to-be-published Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin. Originally published in 1952, The Look of Maps is based on Robinson’s
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
This study presents a global scale analysis of cropping intensity, crop duration and fallow land extent computed by using the global dataset on monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas MIRCA2000. MIRCA2000 was mainly derived from census data and crop calendars from literature. Global cropland extent was 16 million km2 around the year 2000 of which
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The first three products, part of a new family of design suites, are: Autodesk Design Suite, for architects and designers working with AutoCAD software; Autodesk Factory Design Suite, for machine and equipment builders, system integrators and manufacturers who design, visualise and simulate layouts of machine lines and entire manufacturing facilities; and Autodesk Plant Design Suite,
