Thursday, August 11th, 2011
California Department of Public Health’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) programs are working together to use GIS technology from Esri to identify geographic locations with people who are eligible for but not receiving WIC services.
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
SSTL has today announced that it will launch the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites on behalf of the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) by a Dnepr launch vehicle from Yasny, Russia 17th August 2011. Both NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X will be launched into the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, where they will assist with disaster relief and
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
AVEVA announced today its participation at Offshore Europe 2011 where it will introduce two new products to the UK market – AVEVA Engineering and AVEVA Electrical. AVEVA Electrical creates and maintains electrical equipment and cabling data allowing considerable cost savings through a wide range of flexible automated process optimisations. AVEVA Engineering enables multi-discipline engineering teams to
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Automated buildings utilising modern technologies that help lower operating expenses and environmental impacts are gradually becoming the standard. One of them is the Opatov Park I administrative centre, which has become the new headquarters of construction and development company Skanska. Siemens participated in the construction of the complex, whose technologies enable the central operation of
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
The Physico-Mathematical Lyceum “Lensky Krai” became the venue of the V (anniversary) aerospace school “The road to space”. Over 150 children and students from 20 different settlements (regions) of the republic studied physics, mathematics, history of cosmonauts and basics of Earth remote sensing from space. The lessons in the aerospace school were supported by ScanEx
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is deploying Bentley’s ProjectWise project team collaboration platform to improve its work sharing, better manage all engineering content, better leverage its existing hydraulic models for its water and wastewater networks, and reduce costs.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Great wines come from combining site selection with appropriate viticulture and winemaking skills and style. But now geographic information systems (GIS) technology plays an important role in the wine industry. GIS technology is used to create spatial data (maps) that provide valuable information to differentiate and add value to the wine products.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) today released a draft “Guidelines for Procurement of Commercial Geospatial Mapping Products”. The material is considered DRAFT FOR REVIEW and is being published at this time to encourage wide dissemination and comment.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
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
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
