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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

CHC Introduces New GPS Mapping Solutions

CHC today announced the availability of Nava GPS Handheld series designed for any meter-level GPS mapping applications such as in forestry, agriculture, utilities, and local government, which are mainly capturing data about assets. Nava GPS are affordable, easy-to-use and provide the necessary features for data collection and mapping including point, line and area data capture, import

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

UK Location User Needs Workshop

Growing Location-based Applications in Retail, Financial Services and Transport sectors: How can the UK Location Programme help? Aimed at end-users of Location-based Applications/GIS in the above sectors, the objectives of the workshop are to: – increase awareness of what is being provided under the UK Location Programme and discuss how the use of these facilities across the

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

KOREC to Distribute Unmanned Flying Camera for Aerial Mapping Projects

KOREC is delighted to announce that it has signed an agreement with Swiss company, SenseFLY, to become the sole UK and Irish distributor of SenseFLY’s unmanned flying camera, the swinglet CAM. The swinglet CAM is a lightweight, unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with a high resolution electronically integrated digital camera. Designed to undertake small scale aerial mapping

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Towards a Voluntary Common European Union Certification Scheme for Non-residential Buildings?

Thanks to the significant experience gained throughout 7 magical years of the Display® Campaign, Energy Cities with contributions from Displayers has launched a briefing note for the Concerted Action, national governments and organisations in charge with the transposition of the EPBD, interested MEPs and national parliamentarians. Read More

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

SpecTIR Releases Free Sample Hyperspectral Imagery

SpecTIR has made available a number of airborne hyperspectral imagery data sets for research, training, and educational purposes. They will be available from the SpecTIR website at http://www.spectir.com/download.html and cover a wide variety of subjects which include : Gulf of Mexico coastal National Wildlife Refuge wetlands prior to oil landing onshore.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

TED Talks – Blaise Aguera y Arcas Demos Augmented-reality Maps

Imagine using the power of augmented reality not just for places and monuments but also to get public information on people arround you. Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques, and in 2001, he made

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

2nd Edition Specialist Course Management Analysis for Flood Risk and Flooding

Following the success of the first course, start the time to register for the 2nd edition of the Course Specialist Analysis of Risk Management for Flood and Flood (CEAGRAI 2011), which TECNOSYLVA participates as a partner. This year the course will be jointly organized by the UCLM and UPM, and capital will be held in Madrid, between May

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

IGN DMS GROUP Chooses to Adapt to INSPIRE Metadata

DMS Group becomes the first company founded and run by students develop a project to IGN in this area. The European Directive INSPIRE and its implementation in Spain “LISIGE” provide the guidance necessary to make available to the public geographic information generated by any public institution documented through metadata. Read More

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

TanDEM-X Science Service System

The TanDEM-X Science Service System is a web interface for the submission and evaluation of scientific proposals. The portal is the main interface for Principal Investigators to define their acquisition requests. It is further used to monitor and track the status of submitted proposals and is a tool for the science coordination team to help

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Forest News From Latin America and the Caribbean

Just to bring to your attention the first issue of IISD’s new publication, Latin America and Caribbean Regional Update, which includes the latest news and information on sustainable development issues throughout the region.The first issue includes several stories on forestry and biodiversity, including recent activities on bigleaf mahogany and on the International Year of Forests. To