Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Europeans have high expectations of their forests which must meet increasing and sometimes conflicting environmental, social and economic demands. Policy makers must balance the conservation of biodiversity, the need to sequester and store carbon, adaptation to a changing climate and the provision of opportunities for recreation and leisure, while also supplying wood for energy and
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
The ability to simulate trends and identify probable business forecasts based on corporate data, using data analytics, is extremely valuable. However, the technology behind this capability is often far too expensive for most organizations and, what’s more, can be very time-consuming for the data analyst tasked with reporting. Today’s analysts need a simplified and cost-effective
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
MathWorks today announced that A2A, one of the largest energy companies in Italy, used MATLAB and companion toolboxes to develop its risk management platform. With MATLAB as the foundation for its production architecture, A2A reduced risk calculations from one hour to 30 seconds, halved system development time, and accelerated pricing model development. Read More
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
The group “image processing” of the UCL, through Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Benoît Macq, actively participating in this fortnight of video technologies, organized as part of events “Charleroi 2011”. The general public will discover, through a series of presentations, the treatment of cancer, interactive cinema, video, video games or neurosurgery are all areas that rely on
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
A number of events will be featured at GIS-Pro 2011: URISA’s 49th Annual Conference taking place November 1-4, 2011 in Indianapolis. An “All Things Geospatial” evening Ignite session, Lightning Talks, an OpenStreetMap Lab, Esri Technical Workshops and User Group Meeting, and a DevMeetUp are all on the program this year. In addition to full-day URISA
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D (Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas) observatory, is making NASA’s first space observations of ocean surface salinity variations — a key component of Earth’s climate.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Leica Geosystems has released a new software version of its automated deformation monitoring solution. Leica GeoMoS v5.2 supports the new Leica Viva TS15 Imaging Total Station, a power saving mode, and many more new features making Leica GeoMoS more flexible and productive.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced that it has been named Earth Observation Operator of the Year by Euroconsult. “From all of us at DigitalGlobe, I’d like to extend our thanks to the committee and to Euroconsult for this honor,” said Jeffrey R. Tarr, President and CEO
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Esri will exhibit its software for 3D modeling and urban planning, called Esri CityEngine, at the INTERGEO 2011 Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, which will take place September 27–29. The INTERGEO Conference is one of the largest exhibitions for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management in the world. Earlier this year, Esri acquired Procedural, maker of CityEngine,
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Blom is excited to bring a new product to INTERGEO 2011; BlomSTREET – Powered by Cyclomedia. On stand D43 of Hall 7 Blom will be demonstrating how geographically accurate street level spherical images, complete with metric capabilities, are an essential tool for street asset inventory, situational awareness for emergency services and responders, and road and waterworks amongst others.
