Monday, July 18th, 2011
Firefighters have extinguished ten wildfires in the Russian Far East in the past twenty-four hours and are still battling 26 forest fires in the area, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday. “Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance have registered a total of 36 forest fires in the Far East on an area of over 5,700 hectares. Ten
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Arctic Region attracts more and more attention every year. However, the seas of the Arctic – is not just the territory for industrial development, but the habitat of multiple species of mammals and fish. Head of the Marine Program of the WWF Konstantin Zgurovsky told on-air of the “Voice of Russia” radio broadcasting station about the bio-diversity
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Looking for the latest on bridging the gap between research and policy-making? The fourth issue of Informed Cities Update, the eNewsletter of the Informed Cities initiative explores this and more. Learn about upcoming initiatives that bring together those working on urban research across Europe, such as the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. Find out about
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The National Geodetic Reference Framework is the essential foundation on which rests all the mapping of the country. No frame of reference no mapping possible. The National Geographic Institute through the National Law of the Charter and Administrative Provision 526/96, National is responsible for establishing, maintaining, updating and improving the National Geodetic Reference Frame. On this framework perform
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The project OSM-3d.org becomes a bit more detailed and realistic. Since a couple of weeks, different OSM keys with building roof information (e.g. building:roof, building:roof:shape, building:roof:type, building:roof:angle and building:roof:height) are considered while building model creation. That is, based on this information, an approximate roof geometry is generated at least for simple building shapes in a
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Under the concept of Smart Cities, Smartmatic supplies the most innovative and advanced technological resources to solve the needs of cities in the fields of Public Transportation and Public Safety. “Launching Smart Cities is a response to the need of integrating different technological solutions already offered by Smartmatic and to allow authorities to take care of
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
According to an independent research report produced by Forrester Research, Inc., cloud computing has risen from number 11 to number three on the CIO’s agenda for 2011. Keeping pace with this rapidly growing trend, Intermap, a leading provider of 3D terrain information and geospatial solutions, today announced the launch of the Company’s new Web-based store. We’ve now
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
It seems that some 3D innovators such as XPAND are attempting to kill two birds with one stone: Increase sales in 3D products and do something about falling education standards int he country. XPAND has released its new Education Package, including everything a 3-dimensional classroom would need: XPAND 3D PowerPoint Software to download onto your computer,
Friday, July 15th, 2011
DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, announced that on June 16 it successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) of infrastructure enhancements at its Colorado headquarters under the terms of the EnhancedView contract. The successful CDR marks the third consecutive EnhancedView contract milestone DigitalGlobe has achieved on schedule. “Fulfilling our commitments
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Satellites can bring new transparency to how forests are being managed. With the increasing production of pulp, paper and timber products, there is concern over the effect that expanding plantations and logging in natural forests have on biodiversity and climate change. At the recent general assembly of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Kota Kinabalu,
