Monday, September 12th, 2011
In 2007 I was in Hobart, Tasmania at the Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference, and I was fascinated to hear a presentation by Tim Barker and Neale Hooper of the Government of Queensland called Open Content Licensing of Government Information – Creating a Spatial Information Creative Commons (A legal platform to support inter-jurisdictional sharing of data), outlining
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Project Galileo Online allows users of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler software to collaborate on models with each other. Using Project Galileo Online, users can publish models to the Autodesk cloud, invite others to access, download, and commit changes to shared models. Project Galileo Online takes advantage of Project Bluestreak to give team members an instant messaging interface
Monday, September 12th, 2011
When a series of images acquired with the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X – operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) – are combined into a sequence, the result is truly amazing; even gas storage tanks can have an eventful life of their own. The position of their covers reveals
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Acision announced the first details of its Cloud Services Delivery Model, with solutions planned to be made available from October. Acision’s new approach to deploying Software as a Service (SaaS) will enable mobile operators to quickly and cost effectively respond to rapidly changing technology developments and end user preferences, by having the ability to access and
Monday, September 12th, 2011
A three-year series of pole-to-pole research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere, scientists announced today. The far-reaching field project, known as HIPPO, is enabling researchers to generate the first detailed mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Megha-Tropiques, the novel Indo-French climate satellite, is planned for launch on October 12. The 1,000-kg satellite – a combination of the Sanskrit ‘megha’ or cloud and the French word for the tropics – will give a better understanding of the crucial convection systems, humidity in the tropics, said ISRO’s Chairman, Dr K. Radhakrishnan. Read More
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges provides a much needed survey reflecting upon recent institutional experience yielding analysis that concludes that there exists financially rigorous rationale to justify conservation of biodiversity for economic reasons, above and beyond the usual rationale of conservation only for biodiversity, spiritual or ethical reasons.
Monday, September 12th, 2011
In August, NZGO issued a Request for Information (RFI) to vendors asking them to provide product-specific guidance, as suppliers of GIS and other spatial products, to enable users across New Zealand to effectively participate in a spatial data infrastructure. This Chapter is a collation of the submissions received. The NZGO and LINZ appreciate the support of
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Public transportation is essential to everyday life. It helps people get from point A to point B in a convenient, economical and environmentally friendly way. Most big cities have adopted a public transit system that caters to their residents and commuters and offers a cost-effective alternative to driving an automobile. Out of all the large
Monday, September 12th, 2011
NASA’s twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT) Saturday, Sept. 10, to study the moon in unprecedented detail. GRAIL-A is scheduled to reach the moon on New Year’s Eve 2011, while GRAIL-B will arrive New Year’s
