Monday, January 9th, 2012
Audience. The interdisciplinary GI_Forum focuses on an international audience, communicating in English, and sharing an interest in translating theory, methods and techniques into a broad range of GI application domains. Young researchers are especially invited to contribute and discuss their research; together with established scientists they will find a vibrant community from academia, business, and
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
A new MDL Dynascan (land/water based) mobile LIDAR system has been added to our inventory. We can produce 3D point cloud data sets for shoreline, GIS, quarry/mining volumetric asset figures etc. All in a time frame that would take two surveyors with standard single point position GPS days now done in minutes with many more data
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
This book combines 29 referred papers that will be of interest to the researcher and practitioner alike. It is designed to bring together the best of the past decade, state-of-the-practice applications of today, and visions for the next decade. Read More
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
We are looking for the best usage of technology to plan, design, build or manage Infrastructure projects. Project types may include, but are not limited to: Transportation (roads and highways, rail, airports, bridges…), Land development (commercial sites, subdivisions, public parks and recreation…), Urban planning, Water related (distribution, water resources, dams and levees, wastewater), and Energy
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
On its way to deliver emergency fuel to Nome, Alaska, the Russian tanker Renda will move through an area used by wintering spectacled eiders, a federally threatened sea duck. But, to protect the ducks and their wintering habitat, resource managers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and navigators from the U.S. Coast Guard are using satellite telemetry information from the U.S. Geological Survey to plot a
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
January is a time when many of us look for a new challenge, something to get our teeth stuck into. For some it is getting down to the gym and others it is a hobby or a new focus at work that we want to succeed in. In true New Year spirit, Socium have therefore
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
AECOM has been recognized for its involvement in 31 overall and 7 of the top 10 projects featured in the 2012 “Top 100 Infrastructure Projects” annual report on Canadian infrastructure activity by ReNew Canada magazine. The 31 projects have an aggregate construction value of more than C$50 billion, or approximately 44 percent of the $114 billion of
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) announced today that Dr. Franz Leberl will be the first recipient of the newly created ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA). Leberl, founder of Vexcel Corporation in Boulder (Colorado, 1985) and Vexcel Imaging GmbH (Austria, 1993, manufacturer of the UltraCam Digital Large Format Aerial Camera), was selected in
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Blom has signed a framework contract with all 26 municipalities in the Stockholm region (Stockholms län), Sweden with an estimated value of approximately €2.6 million. The framework agreement comprises supply of services for airborne photography, laser scanning and corresponding mapping and modeling. The framework contract covers the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, with an optional extension
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
CSC – IT Center for Science together with nine Finnish universities has formed the Finnish Grid Infrastructure (FGI) consortium, which has in turn purchased a distributed national computing cluster from Hewlett-Packard. This distributed resource is a significant increase in the computing capacity available for Finnish researchers. It forms a computational grid consisting of ten separate
