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Thursday, March 31st, 2011

SPOT 4/5 and FORMOSAT-2 Imagery Tasking Initiated

Expecting the new 2011 imagery season ScanEx RDC starts to collect orders to create the imagery tasking plan with respect to SPOT 4/5 and FORMOSAT-2 satellites. This year additional fees for target imaging were cancelled for the first time. 

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Fugro-BKS Purchases UltraCamXp from Vexcel Imaging

Fugro-BKS Fugro NV, has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company, to purchase an UltraCamXp digital aerial camera system. “We are delighted to add the UltraCamXp to our range of airborne sensors,” stated Alan Campbell, Fugro-BKS Managing Director. “The camera’s wide footprint is ideal for uninterrupted collection of larger areas on aerial survey missions throughout Europe,

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

GeoERP

GeoERP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) capabilities for land, contracts, roads and infrastructure management. The system integrates extensive GIS capabilities into the authority’s existing workflow and logics to deliver perceptible process improvements and real value gained from the GIS. The system provides the authority with management capabilities to increase

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

500K Argentina Topographic Mapping and Imagery

The National Geographic Institute IGN goes on sale to the public interest, the publication of the book “Argentina 500k”, a work that shows the scale 1:500.000 Argentine territory, both on satellite images as topographic line plus its corresponding display on DVD. It is a work done in record time by the staff of IGN and

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Cities Are Not Ready for Climate Change

UN warns that the current model of urbanization is on a collision course with the climate and that if governments do not act quickly global warming could make 200 million people remain homeless by 2050. If the calculations of emissions of greenhouse gases cities encompass processes such as consumption and energy generation, transport and industrial

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

New App Tracks Farm Fertilizer

Some P.E.I. farmers are turning to a new kind of software to keep nitrate levels in check and make their job easier — using an iPhone. “They’ve got apps for everything and now we’re developing an app, the is developing an app for producers like ourselves,” said Kevin MacIsaac, a potato farmer in Bear

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

HP Opens New Research Facility to Advance Sustainable Data Center Technologies

HP today announced the opening of a state-of-the-art research facility in Fort Collins, Colo., in which the company will advance sustainable data center technologies. The new facility will expand on HP’s Converged Infrastructure architecture by developing technologies to eliminate IT sprawl, increase energy efficiency and reduce power consumption to help clients minimize their carbon footprint and reinvest

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Mexico City Public Forum to Address Sustainable Transportation

The Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) will be holding its first Regular Session of 2011 on 4–5 April in Mexico City to discuss upcoming CEC cooperative work, the Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters (SEM) process and the environmental impact of freight transportation in North America. JPAC—15 citizens appointed by

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

The European INSPIRE Geoportal Awarded to Planetek Italia

Planetek Italia is starting the activities to set up the INSPIRE Geoportal, the central portal for environmental information in the European Union. The company has been awarded the tender for the”Development of the technical components of the INSPIRE Geoportal at European Level”, of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – Institute for Environment and Sustainability. This

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

FME Delivers Significant Time Savings to the City of Santa Rosa’s CAD to GIS Data Integration Project

Safe Software today announced that FME, the leading technology for spatial data transformation, enabled the City of Santa Rosa to implement an integrated water and sewer asset management system by eliminating complex and time-consuming CAD and GIS data integration processes. Conversion tasks that typically took hours are now completed in minutes, while also helping the