Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
The project was the brainchild of Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS), which two years ago went to Google Earth with a vision of turning “Street View” into a river view in the lush and precious Amazon Basin. “It is incredible; all those months of planning and then having this technology here,” FAS project leader Gabriel Ribenboim said.
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
More than 100 people walked under indoor artificial trees and on wooden boards mimicking forest trails with green plants alongside them and sounds of insects in the air, as they learned about Taiwan’s forests and nature conservation in a public exhibition at Huashan Creative Park in Taipei yesterday afternoon. In celebration of the Republic of China’s
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
A Chinese wind turbine maker and one of Europe’s biggest construction firms are considering setting up manufacturing plants in Ireland in order to develop offshore wind energy projects. XEMC, a state-owned Chinese firm, and Strabag, an Austrian/ German firm, are understood to be in discussions with IDA Ireland and the government about investment projects that could
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
The team behind creating the map used radar observations from a number of international satellites to create the fullest picture of Antarctica to date. In fact, the new map even provided previously unseen geographic features. Among the new discoveries was a ridge, nearly splitting the 5.4 million-square-mile landmass in half. Read More
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Magnolia River and partner 3-GIS have implemented 3-GIS’ Express Solution to track maintenance of the City of Albany’s street network as part of the Pavement Management Program. Express Solution leverages Esri’s ArcGIS Server to seamlessly flow network data between an office administrator utilizing Network Express and field technicians with the mobile Field Express. Three departments,
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Chinese scientists have pinpointed the sources of four major rivers that flow through China and south Asia, and measured their lengths and size of drainage basins, information that will prove to be invaluable for future environmental research. The information about the Brahmaputra, Indus, Salween and Irrawaddy rivers was a result of expeditions and satellite photograph analysis
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
The rising senior at Bucknell University started out putting together model airplanes when he was a child but later became more interested in the technology that makes them work. This summer, Urban, a computer science major from New Jersey, has combined the two interests in a research project in which he is designing, building and flying a remote-controlled
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
You now have another two weeks to submit a proposal for the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Busan, Korea. The deadline has been extended to 1 September 2011 so you can submit your proposal to present at this global gathering of leading academics and key contacts in water. Don’t miss out on this valuable career
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, the premier international conference focused on open source geospatial software, is fast approaching. The event, which will take place in Denver from Sept. 12-16, has gathered a great deal of momentum, with more than 600 attendees from 31 countries and 43 states signed up so
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Trimble announced the release of its next generation of Trimble TerraSync software. TerraSync software is used by utilities, public sector, natural resources, and many other organizations worldwide as a key component of enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) data collection and asset management projects. The latest release focuses on updates requested by users to address their
