Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Four days before Hurricane Irene struck eastern North Carolina and tracked northward, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center accurately projected the storm’s path. Even before then, forecasts showed that Irene would threaten the East Coast. This satellite animation shows Irene’s progress across the western Atlantic and how it followed the National Hurricane Center’s track issued at 11pm
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
TransCanada Corporation is pleased that the Final Environmental Impact Statement(FEIS) for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline has reaffirmed the environmental integrity of the project.This is the third Environmental Impact Statement that the U.S. Department of State has issued on Keystone XL since the review process began in 2008.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The initiative is justified, among others, by the need to “inter-condition the activities of MDRT and ANCPI” in view of achieving the common sectorial policy goals of regional development planning and systematic cadastral and land registration, and by the need to correlate territorial development policies with the land management activity, reads the act drafted by
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
SuperGIS Mobile GIS product line has expanded from Windows Mobile to Android operating system so that the mobile solutions can be applied to more platforms in the GIS industry. In terms of Android platform, Mobile Cadastral GIS (available in Taiwan only) enables the staff in Land Office to rapidly get the current position and cadastral
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies is pleased to announce the latest sales achievement in Papua New Guinea, where SPZ Enterprise selected SuperGIS Desktop 3 and SuperPad 3 to enhance geospatial project services for local government. SPZ Enterprise focuses on the project services in the fields of environment planning, agriculture, land management, reforestation and plantation, serving the clients in Oceania,
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Trimble introduced today its new drainage solution for agricultural water management. The Trimble WM-Drain solution is designed to assist farmers or contractors throughout the entire drainage workflow, including the survey, analysis, design, installation and mapping steps.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Trimble introduced today its new high-accuracy assisted steering system, available at an affordable price. The Trimble EZ-Pilot™ system turns the steering wheel with its integrated electric motor drive using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) guidance from the CFX-750™ display or the FmX® integrated display. The announcement was made at the Farm Progress Show. The EZ-Pilot system features
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The demand for such surveys has been made on sharp deterioration in soil fertility due to erosion, repeated cropping, and agro practices that deplete nitrogen and micro nutrients. Director, Centre for Community-Based Farming Scheme (COBFAS) University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prof Kolawole Salako, said detailed soil surveys would help in-depth study of the capacity for
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Astrium GEO-Information Services tasked its satellites to collect data over the USA in anticipation of hurricane Irene’s arrival to the east coast. Over 100,000 km2 of cloud-free SPOT optical imagery and more than 85,000km2 of TerraSAR-X radar data were collected as of Monday, Aug. 29 covering portions of the U.S. east coast from Charleston, SC
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Safe Software announced today that Cadcorp has leveraged the FME SDK developer toolkit to build support for Cadcorp products’ formats into Safe Software’s FME. This new support extends the possibilities for Cadcorp users by helping them efficiently use and share more data. It has now been made available, at no additional charge, as part of
