Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Professor the Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM (Brasenose), Visiting Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment, will speak as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Architecture at 6pm on Monday 28 November in the Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School, Oxford University. The lecture will consider ‘Heritage and Lessons’.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Blom is announcing the transformation of its aerial surveying services at this year’s ELMF 2011 exhibition in Salzburg; the introduction of dual capture technology to simultaneously capture digital photography and topographical LiDAR data. Read More
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Finally on Nov 24th there will take place the official presentation of Microsoft Bing Maps Aerial Imagery Program for West/Central Europe and embedment into PROGIS technologies, together with an evaluation report on the images done by EC-JRC. Where: Tallinn 23-25 November 2011 at the 17th Conference GEOCAP organized by EC-JRC. Read More
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is pleased to announce LAS 1.4, a new release of the open file format for lidar data storage and delivery. ASPRS has been maintaining and updating this widely used specification since its inception in 2001.
Monday, November 21st, 2011
BlomSTREET is a collection of georeferenced, high-resolution, 360 degree panoramic images that are photographed on street-level. The camera equipment used is mounted on the roof of a specially equipped car taking an image every five meters on average in the collection process. The technology comes from the Dutch company Cyclomedia. Blom signed a partnership agreement with
Monday, November 21st, 2011
An important milestone has been achieved in the English Heritage ‘Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project’, designed to substantially increase understanding of the Hoo Peninsula’s historic landscape and enable better informed inputs to the future changes envisaged for this part of the Thames Estuary.
Monday, November 21st, 2011
Intergraph has unveiled a best-of-breed spatial data infrastructure (SDI) utilising ERDAS’ data management technologies. This includes uniting its proven GeoMedia® SDI suite with the superior data management capabilities of ERDAS APOLLO. Addressing the demand for geospatial information and services among GIS and non-GIS users, the combined package delivers a geospatial management platform that enables direct
Monday, November 21st, 2011
The government is set to invest millions in the construction industry to encourage the take-up of Building Information Modelling.BIM systems see all parties working on a project enter data into a central system streamlining communication and potentially making large financial savings and more effective buildings. It forms a core part of the government’s construction strategy
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Leaders from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met Friday to boost cooperation over maritime security and safety at a time when China is becoming increasingly assertive at sea. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and the leaders of the 10 ASEAN members are expected to issue a joint declaration after their summit mapping out strategies
Friday, November 18th, 2011
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has stopped acquiring images from the 27-year-old Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite due to a rapidly degrading electronic component.
