Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Karmasphere, a Big Data Analytics company, announced it is joining with IBM, to help enterprise clients integrate and analyze traditional business data with a growing volume of unstructured data using Apache Hadoop-based software. Karmasphere has integrated its Big Data Analytics software including Karmasphere Studio for developers and Karmasphere Analyst for data and business analysts with
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Alberta’s environment minister defended the Canadian province’s environmental record, but said air- and water-quality monitoring related to oil-sands production hasn’t been coordinated and needs to be improved. Rob Renner, in an interview, said the province’s environmental record, including its air and water monitoring, has been unfairly portrayed by critics as inadequate. He said the province has
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Intermap announced the receipt of an order totaling USD $600,000 from an existing customer to provide Digital Terrain Models (DTM) along French rivers. Intermap’s digital terrain information will be used to derive and generate flood maps in conjunction with the European Flood Directive. “Intermap is pleased to provide its 3D digital terrain data to assist on this
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Three new wave energy projects have today been leased for development in Scottish waters. A 30 Megawatt (MW) project by Aquamarine Power north of Lewis is earmarked to enter the £10 million Saltire Prize, Scotland’s energy challenge to the world. Aquamarine Power, which is behind the Oyster Wave energy converter, has also secured a 10 MW demonstration
Friday, May 20th, 2011
KADME has developed an interactive map for the Norwegian Oil Museum. The map will be officially unveiled at the European Oil & Gas archives and European Oil Museums conference on 26 May in Stavanger. The Norwegian Oil Museum provides information about technological advances and the way petroleum influences Norwegian society. In order to inform visitors
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that it is accepting entries for the 2011 Be Inspired Awards competition. Be Inspired brings together infrastructure professionals from around the world as well as members of the academic community to: advance best practices and innovation in information
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Bentley Institute Press, publisher of cutting-edge university textbooks and professional reference works for the architectural, engineering, construction (AEC), geospatial, owner-operator, and educational communities, announced the release of its newest title, Water Loss Reduction. Written by a prestigious group of water loss experts from around the world, the book addresses the needs of water utility managers,
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Route Planner includes about 15,000 km cycling in an online tour planner. The Google-like map navigation is now available to cyclists the full potential of modern web mapping technology available. “Our development team has done it in a few weeks, a map application to develop, mainly in terms of usability sets new standards. “Ole Seidel, CEO of Geoinformatics alta4
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The Siemens Velaro high-speed train is in revenue service worldwide: It runs through Spanish deserts, travels under the hot sun in China and withstands the Russian winter. The latest generation of the supertrain, the Velaro D, will enter revenue service as the new Class 407 ICE 3 for Deutsche Bahn from the end of 2011.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
PCI Geomatics announced it has been awarded a contract to deliver a GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Satellite processing system to China’s Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (IRSA). The GXL system includes support for three commercial high resolution optical satellite sensors, and the ability to generate orthorectified tiled mosaic products at high speed using PCI’s multi-threaded and GPU
