Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Have you driven 5 hours to an event, only to be eliminated for missing a jump? Have your dreams of winning evaporated with costly time penalties? Effortless and intuitive to use, fast and attractive, CrossCountry leaves you free to concentrate on your preparation. Creates a cross country course map with GPS Automatically calculates your minute markers Add
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Addressing delegates at Metering and Billing CRM Europe in the Netherlands next week, Frank Hyldmar, Executive Vice President, Elster Electricity International, will explore the crucial challenge of security in the Smart Grid. Ahead of the conference, Hyldmar, who is chairing the ‘Ensuring security and privacy’ session stated: “We encourage all utilities and industry players to put security at
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
On-Ramp Wireless today announced its partnership with leading meter data management system (MDMS) solution provider Ecologic Analytics. With its simple star topology infrastructure, On-Ramp’s Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP) wireless infrastructure system works with Ecologic’s MDMS solution to provide a pre-validated, pre-integrated communications solution for multi-service utilities. Yesterday, On-Ramp announced its meter communication modules for the Smart Meter
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
In the coming weeks we will be announcing the business value survey from the OGC. It would be extremely helpful if your organization (OGC member or not) could help us promote and drive responses to the survey. This means any and all marketing, communications or outreach staff highlighting the availability of the OGC survey internally and
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
A new member of GeoMax’s complete and fully integrated GNSS RTK positioning system is the Zenith10 & Zenith 20 series with integrated GPRS/GSM and UHF radio. The system gives the user full flexibility and offers Compass & Galileo readiness. The Zenith10 & Zenith 20 series comprises of only two components: a GNSS antenna and a handheld computer. They can be
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Global soil resources are limited. Soils are the basis for food security. Soils are being degraded and are less productive ‐ urgent need protection and sustainable management. E.g. Worldwide 24 billion tons of fertile soil disappears each year (UNCCD, 2011). Just in Somalia, an average of 100 tons/ha of topsoil per year is lost (SWALIM, 2009). Read More
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. jointly announced today they successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for DigitalGlobe’s next generation remote-sensing satellite, WorldView-3. The successful CDR was completed in late August and keeps WorldView-3 on schedule for a planned launch in the middle of
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The City of Paris signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri France, making ArcGIS software available throughout the city. The agreement enables the city to build an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS) to increase efficiency and improve services.
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has today announced completion of the development phase of its new low-cost Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite system. Called NovaSAR-S, the system offers customers coverage of any spot on Earth in all conditions – seeing through cloud cover across both day and night.
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Future Earth observation scientists: learn about using satellite data for science and applications development. An ESA series of advanced thematic training courses in remote sensing applications was held in Krakow, Poland last month. Those who were not able to attend can now watch the video replays of the presentations and discussions.The course aimed to train the
