Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Intergraph has successfully concluded its series of Intergraph 2011 user conferences in Asia-Pacific with eight events held in six countries. Approximately 2,000 delegates attended, marking the highest-ever attendance for these annual user conferences in the region. The Intergraph 2011 Asia-Pacific user conferences were held in July and August this year in eight cities: Pattaya, Thailand; Jakarta,
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
DigitalGlobe today announced that the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has subscribed to the company’s FirstLook global event monitoring service for its Operational Satellite Applications Program (UNOSAT). When crises occur, FirstLook will deliver updated high-resolution satellite imagery and associated insight of the region to UNOSAT personnel within hours after the crisis begins.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Award winning architect Pozzoni LLP is using computer-generated 3D models from Bluesky to help redesign a number of railway stations in the south east of England. Working for Solum Regeneration, a partnership between Network Rail and Kier Property, Pozzoni has already completed the design of a mixed use scheme at Haywards Heath including supermarket, hotel
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
On 18 September 2011, visitors to the DLR site in Cologne can reach for the stars and admire the Rhine Valley in 3D. ‘Encounter’ a satellite in orbit, view the Moon and the Rhine Valley in 3D, board SOFIA, the airborne observatory, or visit the wind tunnel or astronaut training facility to experience the extreme conditions
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Exprodat’s Team-GIS Acreage Analyst, a toolkit for evaluating, ranking and screening petroleum leases, opportunities and risks was released today for ArcGIS 10. The new version of Team-GIS Acreage Analyst delivers geospatial analytic tools, traditionally the preserve of the GIS specialist, into the hands of the geoscientist. For further information see http://www.exprodat.com/software/TGAA.
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Six months on from publication of the Government’s vision for Mainstreaming Sustainable Development, Defra’s Jonathan Tillson reviews progress: “We have had a productive first six months establishing our ways of working, strengthening cross government relationships and securing some early wins in embedding sustainable development in government policy and operations.” Defra is currently developing a new set of sustainable development
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Roads, motorways, railways, intensive agriculture and urban developments are breaking up Europe’s landscapes into ever-smaller pieces, with potentially devastating consequences for flora and fauna across the continent, according to a new joint report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). The report, ‘Landscape fragmentation in Europe’, demonstrates
Monday, September 5th, 2011
The system of automatic data processing (SCANEX Automatic Data Processing System, further on – ADPS) enables to carry out satellite data processing from source “raw” data stream up to standard Level 1 and Level 2 products in fully automatic mode. The system ensures processing of data delivered from meteorological polar-orbiting satellites of NOAA, NOAA, MetOp-A, FengYun-1D
Monday, September 5th, 2011
The Navigation Conference is being held as part of INTERGEO for the first time. The German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) and the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) are staging their conference in conjunction with the international leading trade fair and conference for geodesy, geoinformation and
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Surface models are frequently used for many applications in geosciences. Models with different scales, variety of data sources, alternative construction approaches and data representations are examples of research issues related to this field. One shared aim is to achieve quality models that satisfy the required needs while remaining efficient. Moreover, controlling data integrity and coherence is
