Monday, October 4th, 2010
PCI Geomatics will announce the launch of its GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A) software at the Intergeo 2010 Conference this October 5-7 in Cologne, Germany. This follows an earlier announcement in March when Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, agreed to partner with PCI to produce an image processing system specifically for Vexcel Imaging’s UltraCam aerial
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
The Building Technologies Division of Siemens Industry, Inc. is acquiring Austin-based Site Controls which provides enterprise-wide energy management solutions for multi-site commercial businesses. Site Controls says its energy management platform, Site-Command, “integrates hardware and software to provide customers with real-time centralized visibility and control of multiple locations from a central point. Read More
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
The GlobalSoilMap.net project aims to make a new digital soil map of the world using state-of-the-art and emerging technologies for soil mapping and predicting soil properties at fine resolution. This new global soil map will be supplemented by interpretation and functionality options that aim to assist better decisions in a range of global issues such
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Esri’s newly released ArcGIS Viewer for Flex is a free, ready-to-deploy application for ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online services. Built with ArcGIS API for Flex version 2.1, it is designed for developers that want to customize the appearance, functionality, and content of their mapping applications without the need for programming. ArcIS Viewer for Flex includes a
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
The oceanographic MoMARSAT, conducted jointly by Ifremer and IPGP, CNRS / INSU, will run from 1 to 16 October 2010 on the Mid-Atlantic off the Azores. On board the research vessel the mission objective is to deploy a network of instruments for measuring self, connected to the bottom, that will continuously observe the process of active hydrothermal
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
ALECTIA is on the winning team of the prestigious competition for the construction of Navitas Park on the new waterfront in Aarhus. The 35.000 m2 large building will accommodate the Engineering College, the School of Marine and Technical Engineering, and INCUBA Science Park, and will be the largest low-energy building in Denmark. From 2014 more than
Friday, October 1st, 2010
NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been chosen by Agence des Aires Marines, the French agency for the protection of marine areas, tasked with the conservation of the marine environment, to implement a secure videoconferencing system. Agence des Aires Marines is responsible for the creation of a network of conservation areas, the management
Friday, October 1st, 2010
The SOIL Action of the Joint Research Centre’s Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit has just completed a comprehensive collaborative project focusing exclusively on life in the soil. One of the resulting outputs is the first ever European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity. The atlas is a visually stunning publication of 128 pages, using striking photographs, informative texts
Friday, October 1st, 2010
With the number of active Nokia service users now reaching 140 million worldwide, the company today announced that more than 200,000 people are currently signing up daily to Ovi, and that Ovi Store has reached the milestone of 2.3 million downloads per day. Available in more than 190 countries, Ovi is discovered through Maps, Music, Messaging, Store
Friday, October 1st, 2010
A committee of independent scientists will be created to review water monitoring data collected from Alberta’s oil sands region. “Understanding the impact of the oil sands industry on the watershed of northeastern Alberta is absolutely critical. We need to have total and complete assurance in data before we make decisions on how best to balance
