Monday, September 12th, 2011
A three-year series of pole-to-pole research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere, scientists announced today. The far-reaching field project, known as HIPPO, is enabling researchers to generate the first detailed mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Megha-Tropiques, the novel Indo-French climate satellite, is planned for launch on October 12. The 1,000-kg satellite – a combination of the Sanskrit ‘megha’ or cloud and the French word for the tropics – will give a better understanding of the crucial convection systems, humidity in the tropics, said ISRO’s Chairman, Dr K. Radhakrishnan. Read More
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges provides a much needed survey reflecting upon recent institutional experience yielding analysis that concludes that there exists financially rigorous rationale to justify conservation of biodiversity for economic reasons, above and beyond the usual rationale of conservation only for biodiversity, spiritual or ethical reasons.
Monday, September 12th, 2011
In August, NZGO issued a Request for Information (RFI) to vendors asking them to provide product-specific guidance, as suppliers of GIS and other spatial products, to enable users across New Zealand to effectively participate in a spatial data infrastructure. This Chapter is a collation of the submissions received. The NZGO and LINZ appreciate the support of
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Public transportation is essential to everyday life. It helps people get from point A to point B in a convenient, economical and environmentally friendly way. Most big cities have adopted a public transit system that caters to their residents and commuters and offers a cost-effective alternative to driving an automobile. Out of all the large
Monday, September 12th, 2011
NASA’s twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT) Saturday, Sept. 10, to study the moon in unprecedented detail. GRAIL-A is scheduled to reach the moon on New Year’s Eve 2011, while GRAIL-B will arrive New Year’s
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a scanned print from the USGS
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Version 1.2.4 is a bug fix release that addresses performance and functionality bugs in the existing 1.2 release. Please see below for a complete list of changes. For a list of changes in Cartographica 1.2.3 visit 1.2.3 Release Notes. This version is tested for use with 10.6 and 10.7. Cartographica requires Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or 10.6.8+ (Snow Leopard) and an Intel
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
SpaceClaim has joined the ProSTEP iViP Association to work with global manufacturers and partners to set standards and drive open environments. The ProSTEP iViP Association has committed itself to developing innovative approaches to solving problems and modern standards for product data management and virtual product creation.
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Avid unveiled Avid Motion Graphics —the company’s next-generation graphics platform. With a revolutionary new real-time 2D/3D graphics rendering engine, Avid Motion Graphics lets media enterprises—including broadcasters, sports teams, and post production companies—create thrilling graphics and arresting imagery while journalists and others integrate those graphics into their stories. Incorporating a bridge to the Deko product family,
