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.
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Virkisjökull is an outlet glacier draining the western flanks of Oraefajökull, the southern extremity of the Vatnajökull ice cap in south-east Iceland. The glacier is sensitive to climatic forcing due to a relatively low accumulation–ablation area ratio and significant altitudinal difference between summit and margin. The long-term BGS monitoring project at Virkisjökull aims to quantify glacial and geomorphological
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The rehabilitation and upgrade of the Agus and Pulangi hydroelectric power facilities will cost around P3 billion, an official said. “The rehabilitation work needed to put up an additional 100 to 200 megawatts will cost around P2 billion. If we would like to add or uprate some of the facilities, for instance Pulangi, which will
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Mr. Michael Engelskirchen, GTZ Transport Advisor, was invited to make a presentation about the Rea Vaya BRT system in Johannesburg as a best practice example for the implementation of BRT in African cities. The presentation was held in the Public Transport, Modal Choice and integration session on 5th October 2010 and was attended by more
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
