Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) and its members have formed a Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Working Group (CSARS WG) with the aim to explain the capabilities and advantages of space-based SAR as well as to provide hands-on learning and training for users. Commercial SAR plays significant roles in environmental monitoring, earth-resource mapping, and
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Apex Wind Energy (Apex) and Second Wind have announced the commencement of a multi-month wind farm optimization (WFO) campaign using two Triton advanced SoDAR systems at a utility scale wind project under development by Apex. This WFO represents the first case of multiple mobile ground-based wind measurement instruments being deployed simultaneously to verify several project
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
The EOL ZENITH collects and stores GPS timestamped wind data with automated transfer of the data. Check all your wind assessment sites directly with the build in Tower Management Tool (TMT). The perfect combination of data logger technology together with the most advanced software for wind assessment. Read More
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Technology has made it easy for anyone with an active imagination to design, make and sell a product, bypassing traditional manufacturing companies, Autodesk Chief Executive Carl Bass told CNBC Tuesday at the Wired Business Conference. Bass said it only takes a “cheap digital camera” and computer software for the creative to design products and then make them themselves
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Automated extraction of objects from remotely sensed data is an important topic of research in Computer Vision, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geoinformation Science. This joint conference of ISPRS working groups I/2, III/1, III/4 and III/5 held at Technische Universität München (TUM), discusses recent developments, the potential of various data sources, and future trends in automatic
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
A new site, “open budget” has launched recently in Poland, sharing structured data on government budgets with the general public. PDF documents from the ministry of Finance have been converted into a structured dataset for everybody to use. The site appears to be a call for more transparency and openness within Polish government. The site
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
GRAPHISOFT announced today ArchiCAD 15, the latest version of its premium design software for architects. ArchiCAD 15 enriches architectural forms available for designers to unleash their creative minds. The new version also expands the scope of the BIM workflow to include renovation & refurbishment projects. “ArchiCAD 15 addresses architects in their native language with an
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Global fish production has reached an all-time high, according to research done by Nourishing the Planet for the Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs Online publication. Aquaculture, or fish farming – once a minor contributor to total fish harvest – increased 50-fold between the 1950s and 2008 and now contributes nearly half of all fish produced worldwide.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The importance of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community is rising steadily. The OSM project is therefore enjoying heightened interest at INTERGEO, which will be held in Nuremberg from 27 to 29 September 2011, and is the topic of the first ever INTERGEO BarCamp. The broad-based and well-balanced conference program also includes many other highlights. The
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Working in close collaboration with the US Department of the Interior (DOI), Esri is pleased to announce the release of Landsat image services. These provide access to almost four decades’ worth of Global Land Survey (GLS) Landsat data developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and DOI’s US Geological Survey. Esri provides access
