Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
At the workshop you can take advantage of the focused technical sessions on SLOPE/W, SEEP/W and SIGMA/W to sharpen your numerical modelling skills under the direction of GEO-SLOPE’s expert engineering team. Details of the Europe 2011 Geotechnical Modelling Workshop are available online, and space is limited to 30 participants, so register today!
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
The Faculty of Geosciences organizes a summerschool ‘The Dutch Delta in 2050’ from the 27th of June till the 1st of July. In this summerschool secondary school students will try to answer the questions: How do we respond to challenges like flood-risk and climate change? How will we make sure people can still joyfully live
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Landuse change models are typically calibrated to reproduce known historic changes. Calibration results can then be assessed by comparing two datasets: the simulated landuse map and the actual landuse map at the same time. A common method for this is the Kappa statistic, which expresses the agreement between two categorical datasets corrected for the expected
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Bluesky has supplied a package of ultra high-resolution aerial maps to Councils in Cheshire, England. The package includes countywide coverage of 12.5cm resolution, full colour, digital aerial photography together with the Councils’ first ever Colour Infra Red survey and a highly accurate height model (Digital Terrain Model or DTM). The aerial map data will be
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Terrain, an Athens-based cartographic company, is publishing the first highly detailed, large-scale maps (1:10,000 to 1:100,000) of Greece using GIS data exclusively acquired by mobile teams of cartographers. By foot, bike, auto and boat, Terrain surveyor teams, traveling with Ashtech MobileMapper 100 handheld smart GNSS receivers loaded with ArcPad, are mapping Greece in unprecedented rich
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Geospar today announced the new release and immediate availability of its GIS software framework to build web-based, high performance, secure and scalable GIS solutions: Geomajas 1.8.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Bentley recognizes that software interoperability is crucial to the successful, cost-effective design, delivery, and operation of infrastructure. Bentley is continually working to achieve the highest level of interoperability within our solutions and with other vendors’ software. We are also actively involved in many key industry organizations to foster the development and propagation of interoperability standards worldwide. Read More
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Bentley recognizes that software interoperability is crucial to the successful, cost-effective design, delivery, and operation of infrastructure. That’s why Bentley is offering the following free iWare Apps for enhanced interoperability leading to streamlined workflows. Read More
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Soils are valuable, because they provide the basis for food, because they are habitat for many animals, plants and microorganisms, they protect water resources and store and transform nutrients. Soil are buffering climate and they tell stories and hold treasuries. This incomplete list already shows that soils are multifunctional and not replaceable. They are a limited resource which
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency, is to meet Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Paris on Friday 4 March. They will cover various subjects relating to European industry, firms and competitiveness, such as EGNOS and Galileo.
