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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

SuperGeo Supports to Establish GIS Education Center in Kaohsiung

With the increasing demands and application use of Geographic Information System in the south of Taiwan, SuperGeo Technologies has co-founded the GIS Education Center with the Geography Department at National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU), one of the most reputed and finest Universities in Taiwan. The foundation of GIS Education Center at NKNU aims to collaborate the research work with industry

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Breakthrough in Automatic Analysis of Aerial Images with Computer Stereo Vision

GTA Geoinformatik GmbH presents revolutionary new technology for automatic 3D object reconstruction without help of any 2D map data at CeBIT 2012 At this years CeBIT in Hannover dated 06th to 10th March GTA for the first time presents a prototype of a new tridicon® software version, that enables the detection of 3D objects like

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Energy Efficiency of Buildings: BGR Urges Support of State Government in Kiel

As there is still no agreement on the tax incentives are the energy performance of buildings, called the Construction Association of Schleswig-Holstein (BGV) support from the state government in Kiel. “Even though the state election is imminent, should not our government put his hands in his lap,” said the association chairman Thorsten Freiberg. “This stalemate means that

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Esri Selects Winners of ArcGIS Online Grant Program for Educators

Esri has awarded five grants to select university and college faculty members to create exemplary higher education course materials and implementations of ArcGIS Online. Grantees receive $10,000 (US) each, as well as assistance from curriculum development specialists on Esri’s education solutions team.

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

7 Reasons Why You Need Lumion 2.1

Lumion is all about creating great movies with zero effort. With Lumion 2.1 you can now visualise indoor scenes. The enhanced GPU render engine can render more detailed materials and rapidly renders scenes containing many lights. Amazing new technology allows users to place and move lights in real-time like magic. Read More

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Cubic Wins New Force Modernization Contract for Lithuania

Cubic Corporation has been awarded a new five-year contract to continue its support of force modernization in Lithuania. This U.S. funded Foreign Military Sales effort is a continuation of Cubic’s constructive simulation and force modernization programs in Lithuania, with a primary task being the development of a modern Combat Training Center.

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Geodeticca – Cadastre of Real Estate

Department of Cadastre of Real Estate creates geometric plans, documents of land boundaries setting-out, land development projects, registers of renewed registration of lands, vectorisation and digitising of maps, documents for property rights settlement of construction works. Read More

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Arcadis Continues Solid Performance in 2011

Net income from operations rose 4%; gross revenues above €2 billion • Net revenues grew 5%, aided by an organic increase of 3% • Growth mainly came from the US environmental market, South America and Asia • Margin remained at a good level, despite weak government market in Europe and US • Dividend proposal €0.47

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Reducing Production of Super Greenhouse Gas Under Montreal Protocol Is Critical Climate Strategy

Phasing down the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty is one of the most effective climate protection strategies available to the world today: it could substantially eliminate emissions of one of the fastest growing greenhouse gases globally.  Low-climate-impact substitutes for HFCs are already available and could be quickly adopted. 

Monday, February 27th, 2012

National Park Service Records American Engineering History with Autodesk Software

The National Park Service uses AutoCAD software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, to help document American engineering and industrial achievements as part of an historical program started more than 40 years ago.