Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has chosen Bentley’s Power GEOPAK all-in-one civil engineering design software to replace CAiCE as its standard statewide survey software. MDOT made this decision after Bentley’s successful benchmark in mid-April 2011 against Autodesk’s AutoCAD Civil 3D application. Power GEOPAK provides civil transportation professionals with
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan. Under the plan, one preferred stock purchase right will be distributed for each share of common stock held by stockholders of record on June 22, 2011. The rights plan has a one year
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Intergraph SG&I presented the 2011 Icon Award, the company’s highest customer honor, to recognize one winner and three nominees for their visionary use of Intergraph’s enterprise engineering and geospatial software. The Icon Award winner and nominees were announced today during keynote presentations at Hexagon 2011 in Orlando, Florida, USA, the first international users’ conference that
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Starbucks Coffee Company’s Patrick O’Hagan, global marketing planning manager for the world’s largest retail coffee chain, will keynote the Esri Business Summit to be held July 10–11, 2011, in San Diego, California. The summit draws business executives from all over the world to talk about how using location-based analysis will improve an organization’s overall performance,
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Armchair explorers can “dive” in and view the ocean floor in far greater detail thanks to new topography released through Google Earth, U.S. researchers say. Developed by oceanographers at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory from scientific data collected on research cruises, the new synthesis of seafloor topography improves resolution in covered areas from the former 1-kilometer
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Growing conditions for Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada range from lower to much lower than normal this spring as a result of cool, wet weather, according to early data from the Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP) for the 2011 growing season. Corn and soybean planting is delayed in some regions, with the possibility that producers
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
The ELMF is the premier event in Europe focused on applying the technology of LIDAR and laser scanning to deliver outside mapping and imaging solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner across a variety of markets. The second ELMF is taking place in Salzburg, Austria from 29 – 30 November 2011. Last year’s inaugural event
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
On 15 June, a seminar on waste prevention will be held at COWI’s headquarters in Copenhagen. The seminar is aimed at actors in the construction and building sector who work with waste management. Policy makers at the local and national levels as well as scientists in research organisations are also expected to attend the seminar, which
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
In the share sale 2011 937 employees submitted subscription orders for a total of DKK 23.8 million. COWIfonden, as part of its objective to support COWI, submitted subscription orders for DKK 18.0 million.According to the prospectus published, payment of the subscription price of shares with a three-year vesting period (cash shares) is to be made
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Decision support tools for agriculture often require meteorological data as inputs, but data availability and quality are often problematic. Difficulties arise with daily solar radiation (SRAD) because the instruments require electronic integrators, accurate sensors are expensive, and calibration standards are seldom available. NASA’s Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (NASA/POWER; power.larc.nasa.gov) project estimates SRAD based on
