Friday, January 28th, 2011
The European Commission expects Galileo and EGNOS to help secure a bigger share of the space technology market and bring European independence in a sector that is important for its economy and for the well being of its citizens. Its new mid-term review also confirms considerable progress for the EGNOS programme, which increases the accuracy
Friday, January 28th, 2011
National Forest Programmes (hereinafter “NFPs”) are presentlyviewed as concepts designed for the implementation of sustainableforest management and long-term enhancement of forestry competitiveness in a manner respecting national sovereignty. NFPs form part of the national forest policy and they concurrently serve asa platform for the fulfilment of the European Union Forestry Strategy. The 1998 Community Forestry Strategy
Friday, January 28th, 2011
A first official version of the data portal for the Scheldt estuary is online. This portal was developped within the ScheldeMonitor project with funding of the Maritime Access Division of the Department of Mobility and Public Works. Prospects are that further developments will take place in collaboration with the M working group. Read More
Friday, January 28th, 2011
The Soil Protection Service is responsible for the soil protection policy in Flanders. The Soil Protection Service focuses its activities on the protection of the soil against damage resulting from erosion, landslides, loss of organic matter, compaction and loss of basic soil functions. Soil erosion mainly occurs in the southern part of Flanders, where silty to
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Bassetlaw Council, Nottinghamshire, UK has commissioned a night-time thermal survey to help address fuel poverty and provide better detail on private housing stock across the district. Using a new thermal mapping system aerial surveying company Bluesky will record highly accurate measurements of relative heat loss from individual buildings delivering a property level digital map for
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
As utility professionals come together for the DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition, February 1–3, 2011, Esri will host a preconference seminar called Emergency Management for Electric Utilities. The free half-day seminar, scheduled for January 31, 2011, will explain how to extend geographic information system (GIS) technology beyond maps and into the realm of emergency management, risk assessment
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global content provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced that it has collaborated with the Satellite Sentinel Project to deliver the first images and analysis of the evolving situation in Sudan following the country’s historic vote on independence. The images and analysis, available at www.digitalglobe.com and at www.satsentinel.org, are
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Leica Geosystems announced today that it has entered into a definitive OEM value added reseller agreement with GOMACO Corporation, the worldwide leader in concrete construction equipment.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Save the Date! Mark your calendars for this year’s 9th Annual Latin American Leadership Forum, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, May 4-6, 2011. Meet with 50 of the top infrastructure developers in Latin America, pre-schedule private meetings, sign-up for workshops, and join over 500 top executives who want to build long-term competitiveness and opportunity
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Bunkspeed, a leading provider of 3D rendering and animation software for the design and creative industry, today introduced the Bunkspeed® Cloud Solution at Solidworks World 2011 in San Antonio. The Bunkspeed Cloud Solution, including Bunkspeed SHOT Pro™, leverages NVIDIA® GPUs to enable to publish photorealistic scenes or 3D content to the Web for real time
