Friday, January 7th, 2011
An international, NOAA-led research team took a significant step forward in understanding the atmosphere’s ability to cleanse itself of air pollutants and some other gases, except carbon dioxide. The issue has been controversial for many years, with some studies suggesting the self-cleaning power of the atmosphere is fragile and sensitive to environmental changes, while others
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
In recent decades, the EU has introduced a range of policies to improve air quality by controlling pollutant emissions. A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) evaluates three key instruments and finds that they have significantly improved Europe’s air quality and reduced pollution-induced health effects. There is scope for even more progress, however,
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
ERDAS IMAGINE incorporates geospatial image processing and analysis, remote sensing and GIS into a single powerful, convenient package. ERDAS IMAGINE enables users to easily create value-added products such as 2D and 3D images, 3D flythrough movies, and cartographic-quality map compositions from geospatial data. ERDAS IMAGINE also provides advanced tools for parallel batch processing, spatial modeling,
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that NiK Insaat Ticaret Ltd. Sti. has signed a partnership agreement with RapidEye to join its data distributor team in Turkey.
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
A free webinar on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, from 11:00 a.m. to noon Eastern standard time (EST) will provide insight into the use of geographic information system (GIS) technology for facility management (FM). GIS helps organizations implement smart facility management, which is vital to a well-run business. The technology helps plan a safe and efficient working
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Jersey Fire and Rescue Service has selected Cadcorp’s Incident Support Mapping System (ISMS) for deployment in their Command Support Unit. The solution is already deployed in a number of UK fire and rescue services, where it provides a simple and intuitive means of managing resources at major incidents.
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
GE will unveil its smart home technologies at the company’s first appearance at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). These ecomaginationSM and healthymagination technologies — including Nucleus™ energy manager with Brillion™ technology, the GE WattStation™ electric vehicle charging station, an advanced small wind turbine, and more — will help consumers reduce health- and energy-related
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Whether developing navigation algorithms, performing vendor selection, evaluating receiver variants or establishing the performance of a PND under real world conditions you will need a repeatable representative high quality GPS signal. And sometimes testing using real world signals is the easiest way to confirm performance in the presence of real world impairments or real world
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
imagina, the European event for the 3D industry, has embraced a new sector: the use of 3D in healthcare. On tuesday 1st February, the day of conferences tailored towards healthcare professionals, delegates will have access to content that details the full range of 3D-4D healthcare technologies’ uses. Delegates will benefit from the programme’s exploration of
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has won a €10.69m contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) via Dutch Space to provide a Short Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) spectrometer as part of the TROPOMI instrument for the Sentinel 5 Precursor atmospheric monitoring mission. The SWIR spectrometer will be used to measure carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4)
