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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

AGI GeoCommunity ’11: First Warning – Earlybird Rates

As an AGI member you could attend AGI GeoCommunity ’11 for as little as £255+VAT! (non member price £365+VAT). For this great price you’ll get access to the two days of AGI GeoCommunity ’11, one night’s accomodation on-site, a ticket to the AGI party, plus food and refreshments during the proceedings. If you want to go the

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

UK Police Forces Investigate 3D Laser Mapping Event

Police forces from across the UK gathered in Loughborough to see the latest developments in 3D laser scanning technology for crime scene and collision investigation. Organised by 3D Laser Mapping, the one day event attracted representatives from twelve police forces providing an introduction to laser scanning technology, an overview of recent developments in support of

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Land Grabs in Agriculture

The trend of international land grabbing – when governments and private firms invest in or purchase large tracts of land in other countries for the purpose of agricultural production and export – can have serious environmental and social consequences, according to researchers at the Worldwatch Institute. Deals that focus solely on financial profit can leave

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Cadcorp and 3tc Software Partner

3tc Software, a leading provider of mission critical software applications to the UK public sector and global emergency services, now offers Cadcorp SIS as a GIS and mapping engine in their MODAS mobile data solution. The integration marks the start of a business relationship between the two companies – a relationship which has already resulted

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Yana River Basin: Geomorphological Secrets

Geomorphologically speaking, the territory displayed on the image is the interbedding accumulative alluvial valley with a complex of cryogen topographic forms. The Yana river valley features the topographic forms, typical for large valley rivers: meanders, bayou lakes, floodplains. Vegetation: low-bush cotton grass tundra. Read More

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Huntingdonshire DC Introduce Online Mapping and Information Service

Huntingdonshire District Council has gone live with a new online mapping and information service supplied by Astun Technology. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ enables local residents to use their postcode or part address to find information about council services, and to locate facilities on maps. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ provides information about councillors, next bin collections, historic and new planning applications in

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

TdhGIS – Vector Based Spatial Analysis

The purpose of TdhGIS is to perform spatial analysis of data based on vector defined geometric data. This may include : Allocating point data to polygons. (e.g. assigning structures to hydrological basins). Allocating polygon data to other polygons. (e.g. allocating population data by census block to political boundaries). Creating thiessen polygons (e.g. for all hospitals within a state, define

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Call for Facilitators and Editor for Thematic Working Groups

The role of a facilitator is to provide technical guidance and assist in the organisation of the data specification activities that take place in one of the Thematic Working Groups, while the editor prepares the UML schema and documents the data specifications according to the agreed pre-defined format. More information on the terms of reference

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Food Security Task Force Embarks on Five-year Mission

No one denies that all living organisms need food in order to survive, but not everyone draws an immediate connection between food and social, economic and environmental security. Food security is, in fact, something that the European Union takes very seriously. A new project, Plant and Food Security (or PLANTFOODSEC), is an initiative of the

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

RCUK, HEFCE and UUK Joint Statement on Impact

Research Councils UK (RCUK), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Universities UK (UUK) today (21 July) issued a joint statement on impact. The statement recognises the range of benefits that come from excellent research and states a commitment to continue working together to build on that excellence. RCUK, HEFCE and UUK have for