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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Capacity Building Programs in Asia Pacific Region

The Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) was established in 1993 to enhance space activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Space agencies, governmental bodies, and international organizations, such as the United Nations, as well as companies, universities and research institutes from over 30 regional participants take part in APRSAF, the largest space-related conference in the Asia-Pacific region.

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

“How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster?”

How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster?” premieres at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Cinema in London on Wednesday 26 January and will be on general release at the ICA from Friday 28 January, before touring the country. It is the first feature film about Norman Foster and the beginning of a series

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

UK’s Moonstone Project Achieves Zero Carbon Rating with ArchiCAD

The award-winning Moonstone Project, designed using GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD BIM software, is one of the UK’s best performing houses, exceeding the UK’s Code 6 Sustainable Homes Guide; the house also exceeds the German ‘Passivhaus’ top standard for energy efficiency by over 65%. At 16,000 square feet (1,500 square meters), with a third of its structure underground,

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

SuperPad 3 Supports Online Editing Services with SuperGIS Server

SuperGIS Server 3 is a set of map server software enabling enterprises to create, manage, integrate, and publish various GIS services in the centralized server architecture. For users who are in field survey, they can apply SuperPad online editing functions to modify the feature services published by SuperGIS Server and synchronize the map data on

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Low Emission Zones – 2011 Reforms

More cities will institute a low emission zone in 2011. Starting 1 January in Krefeld, and as of 1 July in the town of  Markgröningen in Baden-Württemberg, vehicles must display either a yellow or green sticker. The green sticker will become obligatory in Leipzig on 1 March. The new year also marks a tightening of

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Early Registration – 5th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions”

The early-bird registration for the participants of the forthcoming 5th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” is open. The conference is to take place in November 28 – December 1, 2011. Paying your registration fees within the early-bird registration period (before May 15, 2011), you save more than 15%.

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Intermap Technologies Completes Further Workforce Reductions

Intermap Technologies (TSX:IMP) reported today that it has completed the organizational restructuring efforts that began in 2010 with an additional 30% reduction in headcount in the Company’s North American and European offices. The additional restructuring and headcount reduction follow Intermap’s appointment of Todd Oseth as president and CEO of Intermap in December 2010, and supports

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Little Instrument that Could Reaches Flight Milestone

The High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) has flown 1,023.5 hours to be exact, on the King Air B-200 based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Since it was first integrated aboard on Dec. 23 of 2005, the instrument has been winging around the U.S. and beyond, taking atmospheric data. The instrument on the

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

ERDAS and MDA Geospatial Services Bring RADARSAT-2 to the Geospatial Community

ERDAS announces collaboration with MDA Geospatial Services Inc. to develop pilot projects demonstrating real-world applications of RADARSAT-2 data using the IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite. Radar research and development continues to evolve into real-world applications. It is now possible to map inter-scene changes at the wavelength or even sub-wavelength scale. Thus C-band radar, with a 6

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Environmental Groups Create Oilsands Mapping Tool

Four environmental groups have created a mapping tool allowing users to overlay an oilsands project on a chosen location to compare sizes thanks to Google maps. In the latest effort to bring attention to their anti-oilsands campaign, Greenpeace, Sierra Club Canada, Rainforest Action Network and the Indigenous Environmental Network have created the mapping tool to ask