Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Geneq Inc., the pioneer in high-performance single frequency GPS mapping systems, announced one of the world’s smallest dual frequency (GPS L1/L2) GPS RTK receivers for high-accuracy GIS data collection. Named the SXBlue III GPS, it is one of the smallest dual frequency RTK GPS receivers in the world, weighing slightly more than one pound (517g)
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The 2011 digital boundaries covering New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, are now available to download from the Statistics NZ website. Compressed in zip format, the files contain the following geographic layers: meshblock (MB), area unit (AU), urban area (UA), territorial authorities (TA), regional council (RC), wards, and community boards (CB). A key reason for the inclusion of
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard, Version 2.0. The OGC WCS 2.0 standard defines a standard interface and operations that enable interoperable access to geospatial coverages. “Coverages”( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary/c ) are digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, digital
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
With the addition of data from the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, AeroGRID is now able to provide off-the-shelf aerial photography from over 50 countries. Other recent additions to the AeroGRID online image library include coverage of major cities in Brazil, Uruguay, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and the Philippines. Much of this library is
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
As you might know, the 53rd Photogrammetric Week will take place again in Stuttgart from September 5 – 9, 2011. The Photogrammetric Week enjoys international recognition as an upgrading seminar for the disciplines Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics – this regular event was already initiated in 1909 by Carl Pulfrich. The 53rd Photogrammetric Week will be headlined
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The Ninth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 24 January to 4 February 2011. The meeting will focus on anoverall theme of “Forests for people, livelihoods and poverty eradications”; and the launch ofthe International Year of Forests (IYF 2011). Pursuant to the Economic
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
ESA – Since its latest series of deadly eruptions, Java’s Mt Merapi has been spewing volcanic ash clouds into the air. Satellite data are crucial for assessing the eruption’s danger to air traffic and public safety. Read More
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. (HEC) has implemented Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise for its work on the Integrated Gas Development (IGD) project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The nearly US $9 billion project will significantly boost the Emirate’s offshore gas production to one billion cubic feet per day and is currently midway through its estimated 2013 completion. For its
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
On 10 November 2010, the European Commission has adopted the Communication “Energy 2020 – A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy” Read More
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
IDF Global is about to complete an animation of the new Sustainability Education Precinct of Perth Zoo, where we were also the part sponsors of the marketing video. The full 2-minute-presentation consists of an animation and a video with both exterior and interior, showing the focus of the new precinct which is all about hands
