Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Statkraft has decided to construct the Kargi hydropower plant in Turkey. The hydropower plant, which is planned to be completed at the end of 2013, will be Statkraft’s second plant in Turkey. With an installed capacity of 102 MW, Kargi will have an average annual generation of 467 GWh, enough to cover the electricity needs of
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Matrox Graphics Inc. unveils the ultimate building block for video wall controllers with the new Matrox Mura™ controller board, capable of capturing four full 1080p HD inputs and simultaneously driving four monitors at up to 2048×1080, while maintaining full RGB 888 image quality.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
How to Increase Production Throughput Using GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial – GXL-A: a high volume image production solution that extends UltraMap for high speed Ortho and Mosaic creation. In October 2010, PCI Geomatics and Vexcel Imaging GmbH introduced the GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A), a new high speed production solution that extends the UltraMap photogrammetric workflow software to provide
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a new URISA initiative to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community. The VC is an advisory board made up of URISA young professionals who represent the young membership of the organization. The Cabinet’s
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Geneq Inc., the pioneer in high-performance single frequency GPS mapping systems, announced one of the world’s smallest dual frequency (GPS L1/L2) GPS RTK receivers for high-accuracy GIS data collection. Named the SXBlue III GPS, it is one of the smallest dual frequency RTK GPS receivers in the world, weighing slightly more than one pound (517g)
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The 2011 digital boundaries covering New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, are now available to download from the Statistics NZ website. Compressed in zip format, the files contain the following geographic layers: meshblock (MB), area unit (AU), urban area (UA), territorial authorities (TA), regional council (RC), wards, and community boards (CB). A key reason for the inclusion of
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard, Version 2.0. The OGC WCS 2.0 standard defines a standard interface and operations that enable interoperable access to geospatial coverages. “Coverages”( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary/c ) are digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, digital
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
With the addition of data from the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, AeroGRID is now able to provide off-the-shelf aerial photography from over 50 countries. Other recent additions to the AeroGRID online image library include coverage of major cities in Brazil, Uruguay, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and the Philippines. Much of this library is
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
ESA – Since its latest series of deadly eruptions, Java’s Mt Merapi has been spewing volcanic ash clouds into the air. Satellite data are crucial for assessing the eruption’s danger to air traffic and public safety. Read More
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. (HEC) has implemented Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise for its work on the Integrated Gas Development (IGD) project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The nearly US $9 billion project will significantly boost the Emirate’s offshore gas production to one billion cubic feet per day and is currently midway through its estimated 2013 completion. For its
