Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Earlier today, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure announced changes to the Ontario micro Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program, the program guaranteeing the price paid to renewable energy generators. The proposed changes are designed to address the backlog of microFIT applications, and to ensure Ontario builds a strong solar manufacturing sector, and electricity ratepayers are protected
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced industry-first capabilities in the next generation of its FloTHERM® 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for electronics cooling applications. The patent-pending technology in the FloTHERM software provides Bottleneck (Bn) and Shortcut (Sc) fields so that, for the first time, engineers can now identify where heat flow congestion occurs in the electronic
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
