Monday, December 13th, 2010
Deere & Co. completed the $900 million sale of its wind-energy business to a subsidiary of power generator Exelon Corp. The company said Friday it sold John Deere Renewables LLC to focus on its core farm-equipment business. Exelon, which is renaming the business Exelon Wind, said it was new to owning and operating wind projects
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
Eniro, the Nordic region’s largest search company, has switched to C3 Technologies’ new oblique aerial imaging solution for Eniro Maps of the top 30 cities in Sweden. Oblique images allow users to see the sides of buildings and other objects, which makes it much easier to recognize an address or a point of interest. By switching to
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
A key policy issue in a national and European context is where does and should public money go and how can it be best used to influence the geography of growth? For the project ‘Secondary cities in Europe: Performance, Policies and Prospects’ the key question to answer is: ‘Are the benefits of a centralised urban system
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
The world’s population is now majority urban with the number of urban dwellers rising by nearly 60 million people per year. It is expected that in 2050, seven out of ten people in the world will live in cities. This rapid population growth has often outpaced the ability of local governments to provide basic public
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
This new book, edited by Professor John Catt, and now published by the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, was planned as long ago as 1950, with a first draft started by Percy Evans, who died in 1973 before it was finished. The project was revived by John, who persuaded several specialists to complete their long-promised contributions,
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
The Czech Republic is to host the headquarters of the European Union’s planned Galileo satellite navigation (satnav) system, EU member states agreed on Friday. The system is meant to give the EU its own worldwide navigation system, similar to the US GPS and Russia’s GLONASS. EU officials see it as a crucial boost to the bloc’s
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
Alberta’s provincial parks and surrounding rural communities will benefit from a joint investment by the governments of Canada and Alberta towards enhancing park amenities and improving access for visitors. Lee Richardson, Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre, on behalf of the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, together with Cindy Ady,
Friday, December 10th, 2010
An aircraft fitted with specially developed survey equipment is taking to the skies over Britain’s cities at night. Using a new super-sensitive thermal sensor Leicestershire based aerial mapping company Bluesky is capturing highly accurate measurements of heat loss from buildings. The results of these night-time thermal surveys will provide Local Authorities, energy providers and even
Friday, December 10th, 2010
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) AIMTC (Avon Information Management and Technology Consortium) HealthGIS has launched a new intranet mapping service to Primary Care Trust (PCT) clients in Avon, using Cadcorp GeognoSIS and Cadcorp SIS MapModeller. This new service – known as ‘HealthGIS Maps’ – has successfully delivered against its first project milestone, providing Pharmaceutical
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
In early December the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the ASPRS Foundation received an individual donation with a value of $90,000 to endow a new Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. The Award will be administered through ASPRS and funded by the ASPRS Foundation. In accordance with the wishes of the donor, who
