Monday, March 21st, 2011
The Delhi cabinet has approved the draft Delhi Geospatial Data Infrastructure Bill, 2011 – a flagship project of the city government launched to frame and implement policies for issues relating to geospatial data. The Bill will serve as the base for planning and executing various development projects and utility services. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said
Monday, March 21st, 2011
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) is co-organising a conference on “Local Digital Agendas Meet the Digital Agenda for Europe”, which will discuss supporting local development through digital local agendas (DLA).aevant to municipalities and regions. How can local and regional authorities better tackle today’s societal challenges? How can the need for change at
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Abdulla Al Hussaini, Qatargas’s LNG Portfolio Optimisation Manager, and the Secretary for the IGU’s LNG Committee, presented at the debate the Qatargas paper ‘LNG value chain regulatory path’ and further discussion covered topics, such as, the continued interaction between regulators and companies active in the natural gas industry, the regulatory influences on international investment and
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Developed by Ecole des Mines de Paris and GEFOSATwith the support of ADEME and Altener, COMFIE + Pleiades is a calculation software dynamic simulation of heat transfer in multizone buildings. COMFIE Pleiades +combines ease and power for analysis of thermal comfort, passive solar design projects and teaching. Read More
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
The building sector is being called upon to help fight climate change by achieving ambitious reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time incorporating other “green” considerations. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – which allows the impartial comparison of building designs based on measures such as global warming potential – is an essential
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
The eleventh cross border spatial and geo data infrastructure symposium in Saxony (Germany), GI 2011, will take place in May. This time the event itself is also cross-border, as it takes place in both the German and Czech parts of the Elbe/Labe Euregion. A call for proposals has been out for some time, and the deadline
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Norway is a major contributor to energy security, and its energy policies are a positive example for others to follow, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). As a major oil and gas producer as well as a strong global advocate of climate change mitigation, Norway holds a unique position in the global
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
Hundreds of surveyors from all around the United States will join NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey on Saturday, March 19, at exactly 1 p.m. EDT, in the first-ever Surveying USA Day, a kick-off event commemorating Surveyor’s Week coordinated by the National Society of Professional Surveyors. The event will provide professional, government and independent surveyors the opportunity
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
The Agri-Trend Group of Companies have agreed to a channel distribution agreement with several major John Deere dealerships enabling them to enhance their precision farming services to farmers. Beginning with The Precision Management Process™ which is a fully integrated multi-product, precision ag program, Agri-Trend will extend its services including its agrology processes, through selected John
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
The south-eastern parts of Iran (top) and the Arabian Peninsula are featured in this Envisat image. Iran’s landscape, comprising several rugged mountain ranges, a central high plateau, deserts, steppes and coastlands, differs from the Arabian Peninsula, which is dominated by the Arabian Desert. The closest point between the two Middle Eastern countries is the Strait of Hormuz
