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Saturday, December 31st, 2011

myEnergyPlatform.com Launches Smart Grid Energy Management Tools for Commercial Real Estate

myEnergyPlatform.com is an ambitious project by industry-leading visionaries in New York City’s Commercial Real Estate community to leverage smart grid technology. Launched by Davide Gristina, with funding from serial technology entrepreneur and seed investor Chiranjeev Bordoloi, the platform provides commercial real estate owners and managers a set of high-tech tools to maximize energy management efficiency

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Trimble’s Kirkland to Discuss LightSquared Issue in MAPPS Winter Meeting Keynote Address

MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector geospatial firms, today announced that Jim Kirkland, vice president and general counsel of Trimble and a leader in the effort to defend GPS users from interference by the LightSquared system proposal, will be the keynote speaker at the organization’s annual Winter Conference, to be held January 22-26,

Sunday, December 25th, 2011

Scope of Digital Mapping Exercise in City Likely to be Enlarged

Mapping of utilities, a tool to identify gaps in civic amenities, may soon cover more areas in major cities, including Chennai, with the National Informatics Centre planning to suggest measures for suitable modifications to the Ministry of Defence guidelines on digital map data handling. This follows an appeal to this effect to the NIC from officials

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

3D Printing: A Technology Awaits its iPad Moment

The idea of creating your own plastic objects using a 3D printer is very cool. Imagine, for example, being able to print Christmas gifts at home. Looking for a special toy? No need to visit the toy store when you can download that race car design file from a library of toys on the Internet

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Autodesk Acquires T-Splines Modeling Technology Assets

Autodesk, Inc.has acquired certain technology-related assets from T-Splines Inc., a privately-held surface modeling software company, based in Utah. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “The technology acquisition will strengthen our Digital Prototyping portfolio with more flexible free-form modeling and will help achieve even closer integration between industrial design and engineering workflows” “The technology acquisition

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics

During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap), public initiatives (e.g. Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Presenting Geoscience Using Virtual Globes

Virtual globes have increased in popularity since the first online offerings appeared in 2004–05. Since its release in mid‒2005, Google Earth has been downloaded over one billion times (Official Google Blog 2011), and there are now numerous virtual globe software applications available that cater to different audiences and industries.

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

‘Arid Arabia’ On The Earth From Space Programme

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. Join us every Friday at 10:00 CET for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites. Read More

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Autodesk Inventor Helps Bring Greater Energy Efficiency for Building Retrofits

Autodesk, Inc. has named UK-based Green Structures as Autodesk Inventor of the Month for December 2011, citing the company’s use of Autodesk Inventor software and a range of other Autodesk Digital Prototyping technology in transforming the way energy systems are planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated within the built environment.

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3 Enhances Spatial Modeling and Analysis

SuperGeo Technologies introduces SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3, the spatial processing tool working with SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 to complete advanced spatial analyses and tasks. Designed for deriving information from geo-applications, the newly developed SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3 provides users with various analysis methods such as geographic attributes and geometry relationship.