Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Next week the directors of geosciences institutes from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico will have met in IBGE to plan, implement and continue the activities of the Executive Work Group of the Permanent Committee on Geospatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas (CP-IDEA), presided over by Brazil. One of the purposes of the meeting is
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The Norwegian Ambassador HE Mr. Thor Gislesen and the Director General of ICIMOD Dr Andreas Schild signed 30 November an agreement relating to cooperation between Norway and ICIMOD on the impact of climate change on the melting of snow and ice in the Himalayas.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
A recently launched website aims to provide useful information to readers interested in self-sufficiency and sustainable living. The site, www.SustainableLiving.co.uk, advocates a “step-by-step” approach to sustainability and presents information intended to be accessible for people who have limited time and resources to devote to their environmental concerns. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
OpenRouteService.org provides a location-based POI search that is implementing the OpenGIS Location Service Directory Specification (OpenLS) already since 2008. This has now been extended from European to Global coverage using the free data from OpenStreetMap. Due to the rich and fast growing data of OpenStreetMap now more than 10 Million objects of a broad set
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
NovAtel Inc. was presented last Friday with the 2010 Alberta Export Award for Advancing Technologies, an award which recognizes companies who “have effectively harnessed the powers of intellectual property and value-added know-how”. The award was given out as part of the Alberta Export Awards competition, which celebrates excellence and innovative approaches to exporting by Alberta-based
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Hemisphere GPS and CLAAS Agrosystems launched eDriveX in Europe under the CLAAS brand, GPS Pilot. CLAAS Agrosystems, a company belonging to the global CLAAS Group agricultural equipment manufacturer, is offering GPS Pilot as a part of their precision automated steering solution that also includes the Outback S3™ guidance terminal and BaseLineX™ GPS base station. The new system,
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Trimble introduced Trimble® ConstructJob, an updated version of the Accubid Web-based project management solution for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) trades. In addition to supporting Accubid mechanical and electrical estimating applications, the new Trimble ConstructJob now supports integration with the QuickPen AutoBid® Mechanical estimating application.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Veripos has extended hardware support options for its range of services providing metre to decimetre-level accuracies with introduction of a new integrated mobile unit utilising proprietary algorithms, the LD5. The ruggedised unit is available in a variety of configurations, from a basic L-band demodulator to a fully integrated mobile positioning sensor with demodulator and multi-frequency GNSS receiver. It
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Mio Technology, a division under the Mitac Group, introduced its first driving recorders with global positioning system (GPS) and shock sensor functionalities built in and priced at NT$6,888 (US$226). Mio is the first of the portable navigation device (PND) “big three” – which also includes Garmin and TomTom – to launch such a product. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Autodesk’s Project Galileo promises an easy-to-use planning tool for creating 3D city models from civil, geospatial and building data, and 3D models. This new offering will start its life in Autodesk Labs, and will allow users to sketch conceptual infrastructure ideas within the 3D city model. Read More
