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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Mexico’s Liverpool Chooses ArchiCAD

Liverpool, Mexico’s largest department store chain, has chosen GRAPHISOFT’s award-winning ArchiCAD to implement BIM in expanding its chain of stores across Mexico.  Liverpool embraced BIM as a means to plan, administer and control the processes involved in the construction, expansion, and modification of its stores.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

HP Designjet Printers Receive BERTL and BLI Top Honours

HP today announced that two HP Designjet Printers and HP ePrint & Share) received top honours from Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories (BERTL) and Buyer’s Laboratory Inc. (BLI), reflecting their overall ease of use, application versatility and output quality.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Latvia – Northern Air Functional Block Contracts

Since Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Norway have signed a declaration of intention to make the North of functional airspace blocks (NEFAB), held this week in Helsinki working group meeting on policy issues and strategic direction treaty. Block of the establishment for the three-tier contracts – air navigation service providers, monitoring and implementation of control, as well

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Barrow Valley Project Ireland

The Barrow Valley Project is a study of the prehistoric landscape of Ireland’s second longest river. The Barrow defines much of the landscape of mid-Leinster, and has been both a boundary and a routeway throughout prehistory and into the historic period. The project is based on research, museum archives, the Record of Monuments and Places,

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

European Territorial Cooperation Alpine Space Project

CLISP is a European project funded by the Alpine Space Programme under the European Territorial Cooperation 2007-2013. CLISP started in September 2008 and is now ending with this final conference. The Lead Partner is the Umweltbundesamt GmbH / Federal Environment Agency Austria. The partnership is composed of 14 Project Partners from Austria (6), Italy (3), Germany

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Esri Electric and Gas User Conference Promotes Smart Ideas for Utilities

The Esri Electric and Gas User Conference is designed to facilitate collaboration among those who work to ensure reliable energy worldwide. The conference will be held October 9-12, 2011, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia, South Carolina.

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Leica XPro 5.2 Provides More Information in a Multi-dimensional Info Cloud

Leica Geosystems, leading manufacturer of airborne sensors, announces major enhancements to its superior line sensor workflow Leica XPro. The new version XPro v5.2 provides improved DSM extraction. Imagery can now be classified using NDVI and output as  additional information in multi-dimensional Info Clouds.

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Astrium Signs New GMES Contract with ESA

Astrium Services has signed a three-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the delivery of satellite images under the terms of the European GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment & Security) programme. This contract, initially worth 17 million euros, is being funded by the European Commission. The contract covers the provision of optical data

Monday, September 19th, 2011

NOAA’s VDatum a Vital GIS Tool for Safe Navigational Products

NOAA’s just-completed first edition VDatum tool will allow users to combine and transform geospatial data from different sources onto a single vertical reference surface, removing the largest obstacle GIS users face when creating products that enable safe navigation and serve other vital purposes for coastal communities.

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Texas & Southwest See Fraction of Normal Rainfall

In summer 2011, the South was in the grip of severe, and in some cases exceptional, drought. This map shows the difference from normal precipitation received in the United States between October 1, 2010 (the beginning of the West’s water year) and August 21, 2011. Read More