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
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
For a province which loves its cars and trucks, Alberta is receiving close attention from Canadian rail manufacturer Bombardier Transportation. The province and its two biggest cities are considering multibillion-dollar investments in rail transportation, a fact not lost on North American president Raymond Bachant, whose Quebec-based company supplies commuter trains, light rail vehicles and electric locomotives
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Satellite monitoring of ice situation during freeze-up period on the rivers of the northern part of Russia and Siberia is ongoing. ScanEx RDC has been acquiring space images starting December 20, 2010 in behalf of regional administrations and river basin authorities using own distributed network of receiving centers in Moscow, Irkutsk, Megion and Magadan.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The RapidEye constellation of five earth observation satellites have been focused on the East Coast of Australia, dedicating resources to capture valuable images of the ever-changing face of our flooding landscape. The readily enhanced RapidEye satellite data has been of interest to a range of Government agencies in recent weeks. Currently, the movement of the Loddon