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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Province Supports Six Innovative Energy Projects

The successful projects were submitted by Cenovus Energy, EnCana Corporation, Laracina Energy, Pengrowth Corporation and PennWest Petroleum. The projects address a variety of research interests such as advancing production technologies to produce bitumen in reservoirs that are not yet commercial, better understanding of coalbed methane production and expansion of new enhanced oil and gas recovery

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Climate Change Conference of the Parties

The intergovernmental negotiation process primarily encompasses the Conference of the Parties (COP), the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), Subsidiary Bodies meetings and a series of workshops. The COP is the “supreme body” of the Convention. The CMP is the “supreme body” of the Kyoto Protocol. The Convention established two permanent subsidiary bodies: the Subsidiary Body for

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Short Course on Cropping System Models

The program will describe a practical approach for simulating effects of soil, weather, management, and pest factors on crop production. Instructors will explain how crop growth and development, water use, uptake of water and nutrients and carbon dynamics are simulated. It will cover procedures for collecting and managing crop, weather and soil data towards adapting

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

ObjectFX Bought by Private Equity Firm

Minneapolis-based ObjectFX, LLC, a provider of location-based technology and software, on Thursday announced that it has been acquired by TransVoyant, LLC, a group of private equity investors from Alexandria, Virginia. The company said that it will maintain its offices in Minneapolis and has opened offices in Alexandria, Virginia. ObjectFX’s consultants and developers create solutions designed to help

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

BC Hydro Announces Four New Bioenergy Projects

The four clean projects will produce electricity using sawmill and manufacturing debris, roadside debris, logging slash, sort yard debris and biomass derived from standing timber. The projects have been selected under the second phase of the Bioenergy Call for Power, a program designed to facilitate the acquisition of clean, renewable and cost-effective energy, the company

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

New Liquid XML Studio

Liquid XML Studio provides the ability to author, edit, transform, debug, and validate XML documents. It has an easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI) providing a graphical view, text view or split view of your documents for ultimate productivity. The Graphical XML Editor simplifies the job of authoring and validating XML documents. It allows intuitive editing of XML data in

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

ASPRS Encourages Adoption of the National Land Imaging Program

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is working actively to support establishment of the National Land Imaging Program (NLIP), a long-range operational moderate resolution imaging program. For the past several years, ASPRS has strongly supported the NLIP strategy through continuing communication with the Administration and Congress, and fully endorses its immediate implementation.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Autodesk Expands BIM for Infrastructure Product Portfolio

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, today announced Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 software for conceptual design and AutoCAD Utility Design 2012 software for electric utility design, two new additions to the Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure portfolio for planning, designing, building, and managing more sustainable

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

de Bruin Spatial Technologies Takes Delivery of Optech ALTM Orion

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar, aerial digital camera and survey instruments, announced today that de Bruin Spatial Technologies, based in Mount Gambier, South Australia, has taken delivery of Optech’s ALTM Orion M-Series airborne laser scanning system.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Promising Green Technologies Funded

The federal government has announced a $53 million investment to help 17 new clean technology projects from across the country to reach the stage of commercialization. The announcement was made today by Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, and Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) President and CEO Vicky Sharpe.