Sunday, January 8th, 2012
On its way to deliver emergency fuel to Nome, Alaska, the Russian tanker Renda will move through an area used by wintering spectacled eiders, a federally threatened sea duck. But, to protect the ducks and their wintering habitat, resource managers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and navigators from the U.S. Coast Guard are using satellite telemetry information from the U.S. Geological Survey to plot a
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
January is a time when many of us look for a new challenge, something to get our teeth stuck into. For some it is getting down to the gym and others it is a hobby or a new focus at work that we want to succeed in. In true New Year spirit, Socium have therefore
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
AECOM has been recognized for its involvement in 31 overall and 7 of the top 10 projects featured in the 2012 “Top 100 Infrastructure Projects” annual report on Canadian infrastructure activity by ReNew Canada magazine. The 31 projects have an aggregate construction value of more than C$50 billion, or approximately 44 percent of the $114 billion of
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) announced today that Dr. Franz Leberl will be the first recipient of the newly created ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA). Leberl, founder of Vexcel Corporation in Boulder (Colorado, 1985) and Vexcel Imaging GmbH (Austria, 1993, manufacturer of the UltraCam Digital Large Format Aerial Camera), was selected in
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Blom has signed a framework contract with all 26 municipalities in the Stockholm region (Stockholms län), Sweden with an estimated value of approximately €2.6 million. The framework agreement comprises supply of services for airborne photography, laser scanning and corresponding mapping and modeling. The framework contract covers the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, with an optional extension
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
CSC – IT Center for Science together with nine Finnish universities has formed the Finnish Grid Infrastructure (FGI) consortium, which has in turn purchased a distributed national computing cluster from Hewlett-Packard. This distributed resource is a significant increase in the computing capacity available for Finnish researchers. It forms a computational grid consisting of ten separate
Friday, January 6th, 2012
The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is accepting applications for its Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Awards through Monday, May 7, 2012. The awards recognize exceptional achievements in the application of geospatial information technology that have improved the delivery and quality of government services.
Friday, January 6th, 2012
A Missouri federal judge ruled the FBI did not need a warrant to secretly attach a GPS monitoring device to a suspect’s car to track his public movements for two months. The ruling, upholding federal theft and other charges, is one in a string of decisions nationwide supporting warrantless GPS surveillance. Last week’s decision comes as
Friday, January 6th, 2012
The spotlight will be on the Leica Geosystems exhibit (booth C-5960) at World of Concrete as a complete portfolio of tailor-made positioning and measurements solutions for construction professionals makes its debut. These much anticipated innovations promise to change the way construction trade tasks are performed by offering new tools that significantly optimize construction workflow efficiency.
Friday, January 6th, 2012
On the 5th of March 2012, exactly 500 years after Mercator’s birth in Ruppelmonde (Belgium), the European Council of Geodetic Engineers will celebrate our illustrious predecessor. At the same occasion, we will launch the first “Day of the European Surveyor and GeoInformation”. Special events will take place all over Europe. A solemn celebration will be organized
