Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Australian-owned AEROmetrex and New-Zealand company Hawkeye UAV, pioneer in commercial Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations have signed a distributor agreement for AEROmetrex to market Hawkeye-UAV technology and imagery throughout Australia. The range of activities to be undertaken by AEROmetrex includes sales of the RQ-84Z AreoHawk UAV system as well as technical support, assistance with training
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Socium is pleased to announce that it has been successfully selected for the Software as a Service lot of the Government Procurement Service’s G-Cloud ITT. The opportunity to tender was published on the 18th October 2011 and following a successful bid, Socium’s Online Validation Service has been selected as an approved service on the G-Cloud
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Applications are currently being accepted for the SmartGeometry 2012 Workshop – an annual gathering of leading designers and researchers, programmers and artists, professionals and academics who come together for 4 days of intense collaboration, development, and design.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Don’t miss the Working Week 2012 in the beautiful city of Rome. Register now and make use of the Early Bird Rate which is open until 21 February 2012. After 21 February the registration fee will be 570 EUR. The registration fee includes participation in the General Assembly (6 and 10 May), three conference days (7-9 May), lunches, coffees,
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The European Commission has launched today an in-depth consultation on the future of European company law. Europe needs a company law framework that is adapted to the needs of the society of today and to the evolution of the economic environment. EU company law has played a central part in building the single market. It
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) in Northern Ireland is setting up a £9m contract for an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS). It is aimed at correcting shortcomings in the existing GIS and its Land Parcel Information System function, which have been in place since December 2004. The department said the system is also intended
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
A new service of access to spatial data “Express. Kosmosnimki” started to operate in test mode. The service was created by ScanEx specialists to streamline and expedite spatial data delivery to the end-user’s operations environment. Desktop GIS application can be such an environment (Mapinfo, ArcMap, Gismeteo, GlobalMapper, etc.) or Web-GIS applications, such as ArcGIS API,
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Trimble introduced a new cloud-based solution that provides on-road supply chain visibility to enhance efficiency for the transport and logistics industry in India—Trimble® trako Visual Cargo. With standard, easy-to-use application process interfaces (API), shippers can seamlessly integrate Visual Cargo with its ERP/TMS system and vehicle location data from the Trimble trako Fleet Management solution to
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth’s forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights influence wildlife habitats within them, while also helping them quantify the carbon stored in Earth’s vegetation.
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Michael Oskin, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, is lead author on a recent Science journal paper that describes how a team of scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and China used differential absorption LIDAR(light detection and ranging) to report the most comprehensive three-dimensional (3D) before-and-after pictures yet of an earthquake zone using data from the magnitude 7.2 event
