Monday, September 5th, 2011
Exprodat’s Team-GIS Acreage Analyst, a toolkit for evaluating, ranking and screening petroleum leases, opportunities and risks was released today for ArcGIS 10. The new version of Team-GIS Acreage Analyst delivers geospatial analytic tools, traditionally the preserve of the GIS specialist, into the hands of the geoscientist. For further information see http://www.exprodat.com/software/TGAA.
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Six months on from publication of the Government’s vision for Mainstreaming Sustainable Development, Defra’s Jonathan Tillson reviews progress: “We have had a productive first six months establishing our ways of working, strengthening cross government relationships and securing some early wins in embedding sustainable development in government policy and operations.” Defra is currently developing a new set of sustainable development
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Roads, motorways, railways, intensive agriculture and urban developments are breaking up Europe’s landscapes into ever-smaller pieces, with potentially devastating consequences for flora and fauna across the continent, according to a new joint report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). The report, ‘Landscape fragmentation in Europe’, demonstrates
Monday, September 5th, 2011
The system of automatic data processing (SCANEX Automatic Data Processing System, further on – ADPS) enables to carry out satellite data processing from source “raw” data stream up to standard Level 1 and Level 2 products in fully automatic mode. The system ensures processing of data delivered from meteorological polar-orbiting satellites of NOAA, NOAA, MetOp-A, FengYun-1D
Monday, September 5th, 2011
The Navigation Conference is being held as part of INTERGEO for the first time. The German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) and the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) are staging their conference in conjunction with the international leading trade fair and conference for geodesy, geoinformation and
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Surface models are frequently used for many applications in geosciences. Models with different scales, variety of data sources, alternative construction approaches and data representations are examples of research issues related to this field. One shared aim is to achieve quality models that satisfy the required needs while remaining efficient. Moreover, controlling data integrity and coherence is
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
USDA/NRCS is requesting offers to provide post-processing software and training for 3D Ground Based laser Scanner / Imaging System (LIDAR) data. This requirement is only for the post processing software suite, which shall be a LIDAR production manager for a microsoft Windows system with a node locked license key. Read More
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Degrees in climate change and sustainability provide future opinion leaders, managers and advisers with timely and relevant research-based knowledge. Nordic universities are collaborating on promoting this kind of education. With a prospect of a world population of nine billion people by 2050 and the effects of climate change it is becoming ever clearer that it
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
PromapSolutions, has secured a win in the utility sector to provide Cambridge Water with Ordnance Survey MasterMap (OSMM) Topography Layer Mapping for the next three years. The contract was awarded to Landmark PromapSolutions following a review of Cambridge Water’s current mapping provider. Cambridge Water will use the detailed landscaping of the OSMM Topography Layer as part
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
As a nation, we are experiencing a long slow emergency. As collapses go, our decline is comfortable and scenic. But we should be under no illusion: if we continue down this track, New Zealand will gradually become a backwater, delivering an ever poorer environment for everybody. Our children will grow up cheering for the Wallabies. That’s
