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Thursday, November 4th, 2010

New Alibre Design 2011 3D Design Software Now Available for Review

The new Alibre Design 2011, the easiest, lowest cost, highest value 3D design software on the market, is now available for review at www.alibre.com. Please tell me if you’d like to try it out and we’ll send you a review download code. Priced thousands less than competitors, starting at only $99 for Personal Edition (PE), $699 for

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

EU Guidelines for Public Administrations Purchasing Software

The European Union has published excellent, very practical guidelines to support government agencies purchase software. While it is specifically targeted at purchasing Open Source Software, by its own admission, most of the discussion is valid for purchasing Proprietary Software too. The key message that it describes in business terms, is the importance of using Open

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Job Opportunities Related to Environment and Research

In case you want to make an Open Vacancy Announcement (related to Soils), please send the Vacancy Description in PDF format to Panos Panagos.  The Vacancies which are going to expire first are on the top of the list (Date: 04-Nov-10 ) Read More

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Guidelines for Mapping Areas at Risk of Landslides in Europe

This publication presents the results of a meeting of experts from a number of national geological surveys, research institutes and universities in Europe, held at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy on 23-24 October 2007, with the main aim to discuss and draft guidelines for mapping areas at risk of landslides in Europe.

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

SuperGeo Releases Cadastral GIS

SuperGeo announces that Cadastral GIS (CG) is released in Taiwan. Cadastral GIS is a set of mobile GIS based on SuperGIS Mobile Engine 3 and able to help field surveyors do cadastral positioning with various mobile devices and related handheld equipments. Cadastral GIS integrates GIS, GPS, and RS technologies and applies SuperGIS Mobile Engine 3

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

First Results of the Satellite-based Monitoring of Northern Caspian

First result of the satellite-based monitoring of oil pollution in the Northern Caspian Sea have been summed up. Starting June 2010 ScanEx R&D Center by the order of the “Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft” company has been conducting satellite-based monitoring of oil spills of the sea surface near the Yuri Korchagin oil field in the Caspian Sea. The main

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Over 12000 Landsat-5 Scenes Acquired in 2010 by Russian Receiving Stations

The second stage of the International Project “Global Land Survey 2010” (GLS-2010) to create a full coverage of the Earth with Landsat 5 and 7images is complete. Starting on June 1, 2010 ScanEx RDC has received Landsat-5 data to its own network of ground stations located in Moscow, Irkutsk and Magadan. For imaging of the Arctic areas

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

AeroGRID Launches WMS Service for Pan-European Imagery

AeroGRID has launched a new WMS service (Web Mapping Service) to enable customers to stream Pan-European imagery directly to their desktops. AeroGRID is now in the process of loading 1.7 million km² (over 1 million square miles) of 12.5cm to 50cm resolution imagery, of Western Europe.  This includes the whole of Benelux, Britain, France, Germany

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

kubit teaching “Reality Capture” for Autodesk University 2010: Attend Virtually

We want to inform you that kubit is proud to be participating as instructors at this year’s Autodesk University 2010. We invite you all to this opportunity to attend any of the 5 Autodesk University Virtual classes hosted by familiar kubit representatives and broadcasted to your computer screens. Our idea this year is to educate

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Selects NAVTEQ for U.S. Map Data Coverage

NAVTEQ announces their agreement with the FCC to supply nationwide map data in support of broadband availability analysis for U.S. states and territories. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 charges the FCC with developing a national broadband plan so that all Americans have access to broadband capability.  Under the National Telecommunications and Information