Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
The recent PETEX 2010 conference saw the oil and gas exploration and production community come together for a week in Earl’s Court. The conference was supported by an extremely well attended exhibition that allowed product and services companies to present their offerings to a combination of oil & gas professionals and recent graduates.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Vertice is now a member of the Autodesk Architecture Preferred Industry Partner Program and the only company outside the USA to have been selected in this program for Architecture. The collaboration between Autodesk and Vertice helps to provide a stronger, more accurate foundation for creating designs more efficiently. “Together, Autodesk and Vertice provide an easy and
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Representatives from FOREST EUROPE’s signatory countries are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on 14-15 December 2010 to discuss issues that will be raised at the FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe scheduled for 14-16 June 2011 in Oslo, Norway. The ministers responsible for forests in Europe will take political decisions on
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
BroadMap, a leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, services and solutions provider, and TrueVector Technologies, a first-generation interactive mapping company, today announced an agreement that combines BroadMap’s premium geospatial data and GIS services with TrueVector’s interactive online maps. TrueVector Technologies solves diverse challenges for clients by using online mapping tools that visually display data and provide
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
AAM Industrial Surveyors are tasked with a variety of projects that involve supplying accurate 3D as-built information about a structure; deformation monitoring of surfaces subject to wear, and mapping objects in motion. This case study describes a package of works, dubbed ‘Measure, Monitor, Map’, undertaken at BlueScope Steel’s Number 5 blast furnace at Port Kembla during
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
To ensure that the spatial data infrastructures of the Member States are compatible and usable in a Community and transboundary context, the Directive requires that common Implementing Rules (IR) are adopted in a number of specific areas (Metadata, Data Specifications, Network Services, Data and Service Sharing and Monitoring and Reporting). These IRs are adopted as
Monday, December 13th, 2010
ERDAS is pleased to announce that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) recently signed a 5-year contract renewal with ERDAS. The contract includes support and upgrades for NGA’s existing ERDAS software holdings and preferred buying arrangements for additional products, licenses and software maintenance renewals. NGA currently owns licenses for most products in the ERDAS portfolio, including
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Governments at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, managed to approve a series of tangible if modest steps that sets up a “global climate fund” to help poor nations, create a mechanism to share clean technologies, protect tropical forests and help the poor adapt to impacts ranging from storms to rising sea levels, says
Monday, December 13th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that it has appointed Tony Frazier as its senior vice president of Marketing. Frazier most recently served as senior director of Product Management and Marketing at Cisco Systems, where he focused on bringing to market emerging technologies
Monday, December 13th, 2010
After several years of public debate and planning, construction has begun on the Milton-Madison Bridge along the Kentucky-Indiana border in the US. The work involves reinforcing the bridge’s original support piers as well as replacing the ageing superstructure with a wider and safer one.
