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Friday, September 30th, 2011

The Washable Wearable Antenna

Wearing an antenna – without anyone knowing – is making a splash in the world of search and rescue. ESA has provided research and development guidance to Finnish company Patria, with the help of Tampere University of Technology, in designing a search and rescue radio antenna that can be sewn into a life vest.  

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Laval Virtual 2012

Discover specific solutions for your businesses. Discover and test interactive solutions and tools (virtual reality and augmented reality solutions, projection systems, new tactile and interactive interfaces, etc.) to design and promote your products or services irrespective of your sector of activity (industry, urban planning, communication and marketing, museography, etc.). Read More

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Call for Papers – Authors Are Invited to Submit Papers to the imagina 2012

Can digital technologies improve the eco-design of buildings? Environmental legislative constraints increasingly require architects to turn to environmentally conscious and sustainable designs for buildings. Improving town management using 3D. Town management involves comparing complex problems for which an increasing number of digital mock-ups have appeared over the last few years.  Read More

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Joint Workshop of 8 European GI & SDI projects in Plzen (CZ)

The workshop will be held on 5th October 2011 in picturesque premises of the Kozel Castle which is very close to the Pilsen city, Czech Republic and is organized as a pre-conference workshop of the Geomatics in projects 2011 conference at 6th October 2011. The joint workshop will be held in English. You can register by sending an email on: kjanecka (at) kma.zcu.cz 

Friday, September 30th, 2011

French Nuclear Agency Gives Green Light to GeoVisionary

NDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, has completed a rigorous two year analysis into GeoVisionary and has given the system the official go-ahead. GeoVisionary will act as an umbrella 3D visualisation system for data from various sources; principally Andra’s Geo database, which holds samples and geoscientific data and SAGD, a database which holds

Friday, September 30th, 2011

ScanEx RDC Recognized as GeoEye’s Top International Performer

2011 Global Partner Conference of GeoEye company – the Operator of highly detailed RS satellites – was held in San-Francisco (California, USA). It was attended by representatives of RapidEye (Germany), Japan Space Imaging (Japan), ESRI (USA), ERDAS (USA), ScanEx RDC (Russia), Gesecology (Chile), etc. At the end of the conference GeoEye representatives handed in memorial

Friday, September 30th, 2011

OGC and EuroGeographics Cooperate to Advance European SDI

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and EuroGeographics recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote interoperability through open standards to benefit the European geospatial community?

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Consultation – Sustainable Management of Tropical Natural Forests

PEFC International is pleased to invite all interested parties to provide feedback on an appendix to its global sustainable forest management standard by 27 November 2011. This appendix defines requirements and interpretations for the sustainable management of tropical natural forest.

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

ESRI Canada Wins Ontario Business Achievement Award for Innovation

The spotlight shone on ESRI Canada at the Ontario Business Achievement Awards (OBAA) as the company received the Innovation Award for 2011.  Sponsored by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the OBAA recognizes outstanding businesses in the province that have demonstrated innovation and entrepreneurship.  Out of hundreds of nominations, ESRI Canada was selected for advancing the

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Bluesky Urges Property Owners to Get Independent Solar Assessments

Aerial mapping company Bluesky is urging property owners to get independent assessments of solar potential following press reports of rogue traders and mis-selling.  The consumer watchdog Which? invited certified companies to quote for a domestic solar panel installation and found three quarters overestimated how much energy the panels would produce while most underestimated the time