Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
World-leading architects Foster + Partners and global infrastructure consultants Halcrow have been collaborating on a self-funded £100,000 study to produce a detailed vision for The Thames Hub – this would bring together rail freight connections between the UK’s main sea ports; a 150 million passenger airport to replace Heathrow; a tidal energy barrage and a
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The 4th Joint Project Team Meeting (JPTM2011) for Sentinel Asia Step 2 was successfully held from July 12 to 14, 2011, in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The JPTM2011 confirmed steady progress on Sentinel Asia Step 2 and established the new “Tsunami” working group following the ongoing working groups of Wildfire, Flood, and Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) monitoring. Read More
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service and Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service are the latest organisations to select Aligned Assets as the supplier for their gazetteer management systems. Both have chosen Symphony Bluelight, the UK’s only gazetteer system built specifically for the emergency services and compatible with the National Address Gazetteer. Built around the Symphony Bluelight
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) hosted two Summer Schools from June 27 – July 8, 2011. More than 60 international participants from partner institutions as well as from the private industries and other higher education or research institutions attended the course in Salzburg. The events were co-financed by the Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP) under the
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
This project on “Smart aquifer characterisation of New Zealand’s aquifers” will identify, develop, apply, validate and optimise a suite of novel methods for accurate, rapid and cost-effective characterisation and mapping of New Zealand’s aquifer systems. Z_GIS will set-up an operational Sensor Observation Service in order to validate remote sensing applications done by partner institutions. Based on
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Last December, the URISA Board of Directors decided to reach out to GIS professionals who had not previously been URISA members and offer them a significantly discounted membership opportunity. So far, more than 500 individuals have taken advantage of the offer to join URISA for $20. In addition to the URISA Digest and THE GIS PROFESSIONAL
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Encrypting GPS P-codes is a step backward in providing the best of this excellent work of science and art. As the leader in GPS technology, we consider P-codes encryption as being neither good science nor good politics. Our campaign against Selective Availability was successful. Please join the efforts to end P-codes encryption now. Please read background
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The National Archives has extended the UK government licensing framework, which provides a policy and legal overview for licensing the re-use of public sector information, to cover as many licensing scenarios as possible. Speaking exclusively to GGC, Jim Wretham, head of information policy at National Archives, said the organisation had: Extended the UK government licensing framework so
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests will host an international conference to provide a multidisciplinary examination of the effects of climate change and deforestation on the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century.
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The GCF’s Annual Meeting in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia is just a few months away on September 20-22, 2011, have you registered to attend? Registration is free and the meeting is open to stakeholders, but space is limited, so register soon to guarantee your place. The Annual Meeting is a unique opportunity for information exchange and
