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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

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Use of Lidar for Coastal Habitat Mapping

This article describes how Lidar (Laser or Light Detection and Ranging) can be used to collect data about coastal habitats. The article gives an introduction of the measurement principle and also explains how to plan for a Lidar-survey. More information about the conversion of collected data and the output of Lidar can be found in

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

TerraSAR-X – Volcanic Eruption in Chile

The crater of the Chilean volcano Puyehue displays a striking, circular outline in this image from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite – so this was not the culprit when a volcano in the southern Andes erupted on 4 June 2011. Instead, as the images from the German

Monday, July 25th, 2011

BKG Update – Administrative Regions and VG250 VG1000

The products of administrative regions 1: 250 000 (VG250) and administrative regions 1: 1 000 000 (VG1000) are content with the date 01.01.2011 in the revised sale. Test data and product documentation you can free our GeoDatenZentrum down load.  Please note some changes in the attributes. Detailed explanations can be found in the documentation to VG250 and VG1000 under the “Current Information”. The employees of

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Simulations of Atmospheric Dispersion From Japan

In this configuration, the model can be used to perform simulations of “dispersion”. Are injected artificially in a model grid an arbitrary amount of tracer, and calculate the transport and dispersion of this tracer by the winds, turbulence, convection. These simulations look at how the air mass was over Japan at the initial moment, moves and dissolves

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Autodesk LiDAR Solutions For Transportation Featuring Virtual Geomatics

Do you have terrestrial, mobile or aerial LiDAR data available for your transportation project?  Whether or not you are collecting yourself or outsourcing, you need the ability to quickly process this large data and extract exactly what you need, when you need it.

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Last Chance to Register for the Esri and FME Webinar

Many Esri ArcGIS users often need to work with data that comes from non-Esri sources, and even share their data out to non-Esri users. But converting data to meet these needs is often so difficult that valuable business information is left untapped. Fortunately, you can increase data access for your organization with FME, the leading technology for

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Bath & North East Somerset Council Adopts Getmapping Integrated Solution

Bath & North East Somerset Council has adopted the Getmapping Integrated Solution (GMIS). The solution helps Authorities to save money, extend and improve the use of GIS and mapping across the organisation whilst enhancing data sharing and collaboration. The package also includes an aerial photography update programme on a three year cycle. The Getmapping Integrated Solution