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Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Bluesky Maps UK’s Solar Energy Potential

Bluesky is rolling out nationwide coverage of its pioneering Solar Suitability Map.  By mapping the potential for power generation using solar panels on roofs, the Solar Map is designed to identify optimum properties for solar power; helping to achieve renewable energy targets and reduce soaring energy costs. Bluesky has seen a growing demand for its

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

URISA Announces Vanguard Cabinet

URISA is pleased to announce its inaugural Vanguard Cabinet. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a new URISA initiative to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community.  The VC is an advisory board made up of URISA young professionals who

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

St. Maarten Marks Major Milestone with Estabalishment of its First National Park

St. Maarten recently established its first national marine park – the Man of War Shoal Marine Park. The aquatic area, which opened in late December, is the first step St. Maarten has taken towards preserving the area known as the Proselyte Reef, the island’s most important underwater habitat.

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

4th Italian gvSIG Conference

From 19th to 21st April 2011, the 4th Italian gvSIG Conference (Quarte Giornate Italiane di gvSIG) will be held in the “Auditorium della Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia”, in Udine (located in via Volturno).  The meeting, organized by the Direzione centrale delle risorse rurali, agroalimentari e forestali della Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, the

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

WEBINAR – Introducing ENVI For ArcGIS® Server and ENVI 4.8

Please join us for this one hour webinar to learn about the new features and functionality in ENVI for ArcGIS® Server and ENVI 4.8.  Several new additions and enhancements have been made to the ENVI product family to enable faster and easier image processing and analysis.

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Interregional Space Monitoring Center of Perm Territory to Open at Perm State National Research University

Perm State National Research University will become the venue on Monday February 14, 2011 for the opening of the Interregional Space Monitoring Center of Perm Territory. The center is supposed to enable to receive and process operational data from satellites and to conduct multilateral research work on the territory in order to provide comprehensive, up-to-date and unbiased

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Environment Report (MIRA) of the External Costs of transport in Flanders (Belgium)

Upon request of MIRA (Environment Report), Transport & Mobility Leuven calculated the private costs, the marginal external costs and the degree of internalisation for transport in Flanders. The private costs are the costs for the user and the external costs are the costs for society caused by congestion, direct emissions, accidents, noise, and damage to

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

SkyTraq Introduces GLONASS/GPS Receiver

The receiver features 29 second cold start TTFF, -159dBm navigation sensitivity, -145dBm cold starting sensitivity, and 250mW power consumption; offering best-in-class performance among GLONASS/GPSreceivers on the market. The S4554GNS-LP is capable of operating in 12 tracking channel GPS-only mode, 12 tracking channel GLONASS-only mode, and 24 tracking channel GLONASS + GPS mode. It is ideal for

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Amendment to Regulation on the Interoperability of Spatial Data

The amendment to the regulation on the interoperability of spatial data sets and services regarding code lists was published on the last OJ issue, OJL 31 of 5/2/2011. Read More

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Broadcom Introduces Its Most Advanced GPS Solutions Featuring GLONASS Satellite Support

Broadcom announces two new system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions with support for GLONASS (the Russian Navigation Satellite System), in addition to GPS, marking the first cost-effective, commercially-available, single die SoC solutions that support both GLONASS and GPS simultaneously.