Friday, March 16th, 2012
Plant hardiness zones in the United States have been revised this year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the first update to the map in 12 years. The map divides regions of the country into various growing zones that are based on each area’s average lowest temperature, helping farmers and gardeners anticipate how well a plant
Friday, March 16th, 2012
The Cities Alliance Secretariat has issued a second Call for Proposals to the Catalytic Fund (CATF) focused on the theme, “Youth and the City”. This is in recognition of the urgent need to address what is increasingly one of the most critical development challenges of our times, the ‘youth bulge’ in cities. The thematic focus on
Friday, March 16th, 2012
As the first ever ‘total’ coastal path nears completion and gets ready for the official opening in May, the GeoVation Challenge has crossed the Severn Bridge to encourage the public, businesses, charities, groups, schools and universities to submit innovative ideas of how Wales can make the most of it.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Bristol City Council have now gone ‘live’ and published an online map highlighting potential untapped revenue across the region. The map, freely available on the council’s website, shows the expected solar power generation if PV panels were fitted to building rooftops throughout Bristol. Produced in part by leading aerial survey specialist Blom, a map on this scale is
Friday, March 16th, 2012
3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama will exhibit Esri Partner Conference March 24–27, 2012, in Palm Springs, California at the Palm Springs Convention Center this year.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
George Percivall , Chief Architect & Executive Director – Interoperability Program, OGC, will deliver a keynote “Connecting Islands in the Internet of Things” at COM.Geo 2012 conference which will be held on July 1-3, Washington, DC.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Whether at local, national or international level, INTERGEO covers all the latest industry trends. And this year’s fair – the 18th leading conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management – is set to provide even more impetus thanks to a number of parallel events. “INTERGEO provides an ideal platform for other important meetings
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Eternix Ltd. today announced that its newly released version of Blaze Terra, the company’s flagship product, supports visualization and processing of multi-band imagery. This new capability allows real-time presentation and manipulation of up to thousands of color bands, in high dynamic range (both 8 and 16 bit of colors per channel). Color bands can further be blended and tuned by
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
The combined impacts of new infrastructure schemes and a warmer climate will cause extremely low water levels in the West Sahelian Niger River, impacting the millions downstream and the wider economy. Extremely low water levels in the Niger River are expected to become a regular phenomenon. Wetlands International will present the latest figures based on
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
In recent years, people need traffic information more urgently because of having closer social contact with each other. To meet people’s right to know and enable them to query bus information such as routes, stop information and so forth, “Highway Bus Information System” was announced to public in 2009. However, it could neither manage information
