Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Construction has commenced on Foster + Partners first project in Hangzhou, China, with a sustainable, landmark headquarters tower for CITIC Bank. The 100-metre-high skyscraper’s bold diagonally-braced structure will establish an iconic presence for the Bank in a prominent location on a main axis through Hangzhou Qian Jiang New City, a new central business district being
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) announced today that they have selected Dr. Carolyn J. Merry as the 2012 Coalition Chair. Dr. Merry is the Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science Department at The Ohio State University (OSU) and has been an active ASPRS member since 1975. She will serve as
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released a report that assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control, and fish and wildlife in the western United States. The report to Congress, prepared by Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, represents the first consistent and coordinated assessment of risks to
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Esri has signed an agreement with NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data to provide worldwide map data on ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Data Appliance. This is useful for organizations that depend on up-to-date, high-quality basemap data for routing and other location-finding tasks. ArcGIS Online provides a common platform to find, share,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that the Geomatics Centre of Quebec (CGQ) has completed a major mapping project using Correlator3D™. The project was done in collaboration with the Nippour Group, whose responsibilities included extensive quality assurance. The project involved processing more than 2,200 scanned films at 21cm ground
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The COM.Geo Conference, which will be held May 23-25, Washington, DC., announces that the program and schedule are now available. The conference includes 16 programs and events, such as keynotes (NASA, U.S. FCC, Microsoft, OGC, etc.), OGC workshop, Microsoft workshop, full papers, short papers, tech talks, demo talks, posters, panels, courses, demo show, reception, cruise, banquet,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
On February 9, 2011, the Steering Committee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) endorsed the United States Thoroughfare, Landmark and Postal Address Data Standard. The Standard is the culmination of efforts of the Address Standard Working Group, which was created in 2005 when the FGDC accepted a proposal submitted by the Urban and Regional
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies officially announced its latest partner in Europe, where SC Molinaro Topo Expert S.r.l. is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software in Romania. SC Molinaro Topo Expert S.r.l. is located in Brasov, a city of Romania. With abundant and professional experiences in land survey, as well as the state-of-the-art related equipments, this firm provides
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies announces that Mobile Cadastral GIS 3.0 is officially released to assist efficient cadastral navigation measuring and field survey. Mobile Cadastral GIS is designed for cadastral navigation measuring and field survey on the basis of SuperGIS Mobile Engine. Integrated with GIS and GPS technology resources, Mobile Cadastral GIS enables field surveyors to recognize their
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The company is focusing on new business segments within engineering such as nuclear engineering. Reddy added that the firm continues to do some maintenance work or writing code, which comes as a part of some manufacturing contract, but it is not doing any business in the traditional hot spots of the IT sector such as banking
