Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
The European Commission’s Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Applications Action Plan adopted today aims to place European industry in pole position to take full advantage of the global downstream market worth about €100 billion in particular by using its own satellite navigation programmes, Galileo and EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System). EGNOS, the European satellite-based
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
This report documents leading technologies and existing standards relating to Data Model Transformation and Network Services that are considered relevant to the provision of Technical Guidance to the requirements of the INSPIRE Transformation Network Service (TNS). Read More
Monday, June 14th, 2010
A Bill to make provision in connection with wildlife and the natural environment; and for connected purposes. Read More
Monday, June 14th, 2010
The dynamic nature of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill has been a challenge for a range of communities — from hotel operators to fishermen to local community leaders. And the American people have questions about the response to this crisis. Today, NOAA launches a new federal Web site meant to answer those questions with
Monday, June 14th, 2010
The International and German versions are the first two of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule. Next up in the release queue are the Australian, US, and New Zealand versions. All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010. Read More
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. announced that the company’s Autodesk Seek web service is averaging more than 900,000 searches per month, while providing nearly 300,000 downloads of building product information and models to architects, engineers and other design professionals per month. This represents a year-over-year increase of over 165 percent. Read More
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. announced that DesignGroup has received an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for extending the use of building information modeling (BIM) to sustainable design, and for the application of a BIM process on more than 40 building projects to date, representing over 4.2-million square feet. The award further recognizes the firm’s efforts to promote BIM through presentations,
Monday, June 14th, 2010
In a first of its kind effort, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Engineering Services Office in Boulder City, NV, built a detailed, highly accurate, as-built model of Hoover Dam’s 75-year-old Monument Plaza using high-definition surveying technology from Leica Geosystems. The terrazzo floor is cracking and showing weather damage as are some of the bronze features on
Monday, June 14th, 2010
PCI Geomatics has returned from a business development mission to Brazil, expanding and promoting its geo-imaging software and solutions offerings to this marketplace. In addition to key meetings with stakeholders and customers, PCI Geomatics co-hosted two seminars with its reseller partner Threetek, one in Rio de Janeiro and a second with the Consulate General of
Monday, June 14th, 2010
A $4 million NOAA grant will help a university consortium evaluate the readiness of marine forecasts, such as flooding from storm surge or seasonal dead zones, along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts and improve those forecasts for use by emergency managers, scientific researchers and the general public. The competitive grant, from NOAA’s Integrated
