Sunday, February 6th, 2011
As part of their Public Mapping Project, Dr. Michael P. McDonald of George Mason University and Dr. Micah Altman, Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science, have teamed up with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, to develop District Builder (http://www.publicmapping.org/resources/software), an open source, web-based redistricting application.
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Today, we launched Julia Map on Google Labs, a fractal renderer in HTML 5. Julia sets are fractals that were studied by the French mathematician Gaston Julia in the early 1920s. Fifty years later, Benoît Mandelbrot studied the set z2 − c and popularized it by generating the first computer visualisation. Generating these images requires heavy computation
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
The National Geographical Institute (IGN) and the company recently Archividéo sign a co-publishing agreement major in the 3D world by creating Territoire3D service, service online access to computer 3D SaaS (software as a service) modeling all cities and villages in mainland France and overseas. This service will allow users to move in a world very realistic virtual; the Internet sites that incorporate this model
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
ST-Ericsson is launching the world’s smallest receiver to be able to see both GPS and GLONASS positioning satellites, enabling mobile devices to deliver much faster and much more reliable location-based services. Compared to GPS-only solutions, the combination of GLONASS and GPS technology dramatically improves positioning accuracy in dense “urban canyon environments”, where tall buildings can
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Jena Instrument has entered into an agreement with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to distribute its UltraCam line of photogrammetric digital aerial cameras in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Under the terms of the agreement, Jena Instrument, one of the Russian geospatial leaders, will act as an authorized distributor in Russia
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Agency9 provides leading web based 3D visualisation solutions for Geographic IT and on-line visualisation. The company aims at an aggressive acceleration of the market for 3D geographic information. Agency9 today announced the release of their platform, 3DMaps SDK (Software Developer Kit) and Geo-portal solution internationally. The company’s product Agency9 3DMaps enable a new range of
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Archway Systems, Inc. has joined the Pointools Partner Program for North America. Pointools software is used by project teams to reference and reuse the largest point cloud models – the billions of measurement points taken by 3D laser scanners – inside the broadest range of applications for streamlining scan-to-model workflows. “Our users are always seeking new ways to improve project efficiency
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
The European Soil Database (ESDB) is the main source of information from which most other data information and services are derived. For instance, the “European Soil Database v2 Raster Library” contains raster (grid) data files with cell sizes of both 1km x 1km and 10km x 10km for a large number of soil related parameters.
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Data Dissemination Platform for the test sites of iSoil Project. All datasets from geophysics at Bad Rosslau Catchment are available. Volumetric soil moisture content (%) as measured by TDR (Time Domain Reflectance); point data Electromagnetic scanning data (mS/m); continuous data. Read More
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
This best practices handbook from the International Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (RETD) Implementing Agreement provides energy policymakers and professionals in the renewable energy industry with a practical, easy to use guide and toolkit to the most effective policy options for deploying renewable energy for heating and cooling in the residential sector. The book opens
