Monday, February 27th, 2012
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.
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Clearly cities will play an increasingly important role in our future survival. Cities offer easier access to services, and urban dwellers are more efficient consumers of limited resources. Cities are human destiny. But as our cities become more populated and more numerous, how do we best manage this complexity? Read More
Monday, February 27th, 2012
A catapult, a 3-D virtual reality system for use in training doctors, and a microscope that can magnify an almost invisible object to 200,000 times its size, were among the equipment on public display this afternoon inside the UAB School of Engineering. Equipment was displayed in a carnival like atmosphere, with balloons, popcorn, and games, in rooms
Monday, February 27th, 2012
U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson has nominated Ken Kane, a native of McKean County, to serve as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced its new forest planning rule in January, which included the formation of the committee to
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Broadband data transmission from the imaging equipment of the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite successfully started on February 23. Survey results were delivered in real-time on High Rate Data (HRD) radio-link. To get access to data transmitted via HRD radio-link at 15Mbps for free the user only needs to have an X-band receiving
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
With a growing sense in the science community that climate change is real—the National Academies of Sciences in the United States, and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom were just two among many scientific organizations issuing statements about human-caused warming—the devastating 2005 hurricane season hardly seemed coincidental. Warming climate was worsening tropical cyclones, right?
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
Beijing : China launched a navigation satellite early Saturday.The orbiter was successfully launched into space at 12.12 a.m. It is China’s 11th homemade navigation satellite, also called Beidou or Compass system. A Long March-3C rocket carried the satellite into space from Xichang launch centre in southwestern Sichuan province, Xinhua reported. Read More
Friday, February 24th, 2012
In the near future, NOAA scientists will begin using data from an advanced instrument to monitor the health of Earth’s stratospheric ozone, a layer in the atmosphere that shields the world’s population from harmful levels of the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Intrepid Geomatics for the distribution of its Correlator3D™ product. Based in the United States, Intrepid is managed by Patrick McConnell who brings over twenty years of experience in innovative technologies for the geospatial industry.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Two of the world’s top technologies are consistently pairing up in what many believe is the evolution of information. Software companies are integrating geographic information systems (GIS) technology and social media to map people’s tweets and other social media platforms with geospatial data. GIS paired with social media has been used in every major disaster
