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Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Forest-Centered Adaptation to Climate Change: Module of Four Online Courses Begins in January

CSDi is announcing the September launch of a module of four online field courses on Adaptation to Climate Change. These courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, investigate appropriate solutions, develop full projects, launch and manage them.

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Is your GIS ready for Gov 2.0?

Is your GIS ready for Gov 2.0? That’s the question Esri Australia is asking in a benchmark study into the GIS habits of local governments. All local governments are invited to participate in the study, which examines how Councils are using or would like to be using GIS to make Gov 2.0 a reality.

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Cisco Announces EnergyAustralia’s Selection of ‘Connected Grid’

Cisco today announced that EnergyAustralia, the largest energy network in Australia with 3 million customers, has selected Cisco Connected Grid solutions as the infrastructure platform for the delivery of a range of business-critical services in its major substations across its electricity network.

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Scientist Recognized for Work on Natural Resources Remote Sensing

NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior presented the William T. Pecora Award to Marvin E. Bauer of the University of Minnesota for his pioneering work in remote sensing of natural resources. Bauer received the award today at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing meeting in Orlando, Fla. Bauer received the award

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Aerial Mapping Services Provider Deploys Isilon Scale-Out Storage

Isilon today announced that Aerial Services, Inc.(ASI) has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its aerial mapping and geospatial services workflow. Using the Isilon X-Series, ASI has unified its image processing and analysis onto a single, shared storage resource, simplifying data management to accelerate project delivery, while reducing operating costs. With Isilon, ASI has been

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Cancún – How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist’s World

“It looks unlikely that leaders at the climate negotiations at Cancún will get it together to face reality and prevent catastrophe,” says Alan AtKisson, sustainability consultant to governments and business, and author of the bestselling book Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist’s World, a new edition of which is published this month

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

NAVTEQ Acquires PixelActive

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, has acquired PixelActive.  The acquisition is an extension of NAVTEQ’s strategy to accelerate expansion from a 2D to 3D map, as well as providing further opportunity to leverage 3D technologies for all NAVTEQ products.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Allianz invests in Business Insight Technology

The Fire Insight product suite is an innovative and powerful range of probabilistic computer models giving a highly detailed perspective into the distribution of Commercial Property risks across the UK. The models are based on extensive research using the latest available information, powerful computing and the most sophisticated analytics to identify areas most likely to experience

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

SuperGIS Selected by Capai Cerah for Environmental Impact Assessment

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today announced a sales achievement. SuperGeo Malaysia successfully promoted SuperGIS Desktop to Capai Cerah, a consultancy company in Malaysia. Established in Kuala Lumpur, Capai Cerah targets at project services for several government sectors in Malaysia. Capai Cerah provides environmental impact assessment consultancy services for

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Statkraft to Build Hydropower Plant in Turkey

Statkraft has decided to construct the Kargi hydropower plant in Turkey. The hydropower plant, which is planned to be completed at the end of 2013, will be Statkraft’s second plant in Turkey. With an installed capacity of 102 MW, Kargi will have an average annual generation of 467 GWh, enough to cover the electricity needs of