Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
PMA’12, the Fourth International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications, will be held at Shang Hai (China), 31 October -3 November, 2012. Contributions (8 pages or 4 pages extended abstracts) for oral communications and posters in the field of Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications are welcome in the following main topics (including, but not limited to):
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
IFPRI is currently conducting a project entitled “How to achieve food security in a world of growing scarcity: role of technology development strategies”. As part of this project, we have put together a survey to collect expert information about the potential of agricultural technologies (in the broader sense of the word, including agricultural practices) in the
Monday, July 18th, 2011
ESRI Canada congratulates the City of Calgary for receiving the ESRI Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for its Core Mapping Project. The City was selected from more than 100,000 organizations worldwide for its outstanding use of geographic information system (GIS) technology to centralize municipal land information maintenance. This enables the City to produce consistent basemaps
Monday, July 18th, 2011
A framework / network that allows to search, view and download datasets and data series, allows advanced functionality and services (extending the core modules), implicates technical and organisational harmonisation and is accessible for third parties. Read More
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Firefighters have extinguished ten wildfires in the Russian Far East in the past twenty-four hours and are still battling 26 forest fires in the area, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday. “Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance have registered a total of 36 forest fires in the Far East on an area of over 5,700 hectares. Ten
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Arctic Region attracts more and more attention every year. However, the seas of the Arctic – is not just the territory for industrial development, but the habitat of multiple species of mammals and fish. Head of the Marine Program of the WWF Konstantin Zgurovsky told on-air of the “Voice of Russia” radio broadcasting station about the bio-diversity
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Looking for the latest on bridging the gap between research and policy-making? The fourth issue of Informed Cities Update, the eNewsletter of the Informed Cities initiative explores this and more. Learn about upcoming initiatives that bring together those working on urban research across Europe, such as the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. Find out about
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The National Geodetic Reference Framework is the essential foundation on which rests all the mapping of the country. No frame of reference no mapping possible. The National Geographic Institute through the National Law of the Charter and Administrative Provision 526/96, National is responsible for establishing, maintaining, updating and improving the National Geodetic Reference Frame. On this framework perform
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The project OSM-3d.org becomes a bit more detailed and realistic. Since a couple of weeks, different OSM keys with building roof information (e.g. building:roof, building:roof:shape, building:roof:type, building:roof:angle and building:roof:height) are considered while building model creation. That is, based on this information, an approximate roof geometry is generated at least for simple building shapes in a
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Under the concept of Smart Cities, Smartmatic supplies the most innovative and advanced technological resources to solve the needs of cities in the fields of Public Transportation and Public Safety. “Launching Smart Cities is a response to the need of integrating different technological solutions already offered by Smartmatic and to allow authorities to take care of
