Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Don’t miss the Working Week 2012 in the beautiful city of Rome. Register now and make use of the Early Bird Rate which is open until 21 February 2012. After 21 February the registration fee will be 570 EUR. The registration fee includes participation in the General Assembly (6 and 10 May), three conference days (7-9 May), lunches, coffees,
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The European Commission has launched today an in-depth consultation on the future of European company law. Europe needs a company law framework that is adapted to the needs of the society of today and to the evolution of the economic environment. EU company law has played a central part in building the single market. It
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) in Northern Ireland is setting up a £9m contract for an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS). It is aimed at correcting shortcomings in the existing GIS and its Land Parcel Information System function, which have been in place since December 2004. The department said the system is also intended
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
A new service of access to spatial data “Express. Kosmosnimki” started to operate in test mode. The service was created by ScanEx specialists to streamline and expedite spatial data delivery to the end-user’s operations environment. Desktop GIS application can be such an environment (Mapinfo, ArcMap, Gismeteo, GlobalMapper, etc.) or Web-GIS applications, such as ArcGIS API,
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Trimble introduced a new cloud-based solution that provides on-road supply chain visibility to enhance efficiency for the transport and logistics industry in India—Trimble® trako Visual Cargo. With standard, easy-to-use application process interfaces (API), shippers can seamlessly integrate Visual Cargo with its ERP/TMS system and vehicle location data from the Trimble trako Fleet Management solution to
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth’s forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights influence wildlife habitats within them, while also helping them quantify the carbon stored in Earth’s vegetation.
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Michael Oskin, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, is lead author on a recent Science journal paper that describes how a team of scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and China used differential absorption LIDAR(light detection and ranging) to report the most comprehensive three-dimensional (3D) before-and-after pictures yet of an earthquake zone using data from the magnitude 7.2 event
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Europe’s meteorological satellite organization, Eumetsat, has again been unable to secure its member governments’ full support to start work on a next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system and will try anew in July, Eumetsat officials said. The 27-nation Eumetsat said it has nonetheless increased the guaranteed contributions to the program, to 83 percent of the total
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
EuroGeographics provided updated EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap, EuroBoundaryMap products, to Eurostat based on contract signed with them, on behalf of the European Commission. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 supplied to Eurostat, now covers 41 countries and territories and includes the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia for the first time. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 will be released to the market place at the end of February 2012. Existing
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
TomTom announced that together they will introduce HD Traffic, a premium real-time traffic solution, to drivers across China. Through the joint-venture TomTom and AutoNavi will enable their customers in automotive, wireless and enterprise markets to deliver solutions based on the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic information.
