Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Michael Baker Jr., Inc. has been selected as the Grand Award winner in the 4th Annual MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition presented November 17 in Kissimmee, FL. Baker’s project, “U.S. Bureau of Census – Accurate Coordinate Datasets Collection”, generated spatial ground control for 1,018 counties/municipalities, spanning 37 different U.S. States and five
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Storm surge is the deadliest hazard associated with hurricanes. Yet, for most people, it is an unfamiliar term. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami wants to change that, and it has created a new website to help. The new site, a one-stop shop for storm surge data, was designed to arm people with potentially life-saving
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
During the GeoTunis conference (Nov29 – Dec3, 2010) Lorienne, leading developer of cartographic production software and committed to cartographic excellence is pleased to announce a new partnership to leverage and extend the German GeoConsultants Group (3G) offering on its territory. The 3G local presence in North-Africa countries will provide a recognized expertise in the Geo Spatial
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Building Information Modeling brings unique challenges tothe design team: when implementing BIM on a larger scale, architects often run intobottlenecks in model accessibility and workflow management. On November 23, 2011 colleagues around the world from GRAPHISOFT, Tekla Structures, DDS-CAD, and Arktec will demonstrate the power of Open Collaboration without borders. Based in Birmingham, Boston, Budapest,
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Sales revenue of the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) in the first 9 months of 2010 reached EEK 1.3 billion. During the same period last year, RMK earned EEK 890 million in sales revenue, with growth reaching 46%. RMK’s net profit in the first 9 months of this year was EEK 296 million. That is six times higher compared
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
The European Galileo project is gaining momentum – on 12 November 2010, the DLR Society for Space Applications (GfR) from the Spaceopal GmbH in Munich, the contract for the operation of the Galileo Control Centre received Oberpfaffenhofen. Earlier, the German-Italian joint venture Spaceopal with the European Space Agency ESA in Brussels had concluded a contract for the
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
The Z+F IMAGER 5010 sets new standards in the field of 3D laser scanning. The tried and tested, extremely fast phase comparison procedure was developed further and installed in a device with the latest technology. The IMAGER 5010 has won admiration for its incredible speed and simple operation, enabling people to work efficiently and quickly. The
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
For the base-DLM (old data model), updated data of the federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Brandenburg, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia were included in the distribution. For Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt, this is the last time data update in the old data model. In future, only updated data from these countries in the new AAA
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
We’ve been working hard over the last few years behind the scenes with our partner Telvent, a global IT solutions and business information services provider, to strengthen various next generation smart grid solutions available to utilities. Today we made it official with a press release outlining our collaboration effort. Read More
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Geographics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) will take place on July 5- 8, 2011 at the University of Salzburg. GI_Forum 2011 solicits contributions in GIScience and Technology, and especially welcomes submissions on topics related to Learning with Geoinformation, Climate Change and Spatial Vulnerability Assessment, and Monitoring and Modeling of Global and Climate Change. Read More