Friday, October 29th, 2010
Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC), the agency responsible for the future of Abu Dhabi’s urban environment, in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development (ADCED), has unveiled “CitySense”, an innovative urban indicator initiative, during a plenary session at the ongoing World Economic Forum being held in Marrakech, Morocco. Under the theme ‘purpose,
Friday, October 29th, 2010
The Russian President has again stressed a high priority of energy efficiency program in the country. The government recently adopted a new state program on energy efficiency which will result in a 13,5 percent decrease in the energy intensity of the country’s GDP. Read More
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Rolta today announced that it has acquired the complete portfolio of CommandBridge™ security technologies, including source code, design and software architecture, under an agreement with The Mariner Group, LLC of the United States, with perpetual exclusive rights for world-wide markets, except for non-exclusive rights for North America and certain European countries.
Friday, October 29th, 2010
LMKR, a global provider of geotechnology and information technology services, will showcase the latest geographic information system (GIS) and field planning solutions from GeoGraphix® at the 2010 Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) International Exposition and 80th Annual Meeting in Denver, Oct. 17-22, 2010. Conference attendees are invited to join GeoGraphix product experts at Booth 2462 in Hall
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
URISA and the National Center for Transit Research (NCTR) are pleased to announce the 2011 GIS in Public Transportation Conference, taking place in St. Petersburg, Florida, September 12-14, 2011. This biennial conference helps transportation professionals for all areas within public and private transportation. All abstract submissions, received by February 11, 2011, will be reviewed and
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
ESRI Canada has presented J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) with an Award of Excellence for enhancing forestry operations and management using ESRI’s geographic information systems (GIS). JDI is a family-owned company based in Saint John, New Brunswick that provides diverse products and services from forestry, transportation, shipbuilding, retail and agriculture. They were the first forest products
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
NAVTEQ has extended its relationship with NDrive Navigation Systems. Under the terms of a new global contract, NAVTEQ will supply the European based navigation specialist with maps, worldwide 3D Landmarks and also NAVTEQ Traffic™ services in Europe, North America and South America – the latter delivers comprehensive real-time traffic information aggregated from regional sources plus
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
3TIER released wind performance maps for the third quarter of 2010 covering both Europe and North America. It is the first such map 3TIER has produced for Europe after strong interest in the analysis in North America. The maps reveal that much of North America experienced higher than average wind speeds during the quarter. Meanwhile virtually
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
The Rural Regeneration Centre at Hadlow College in Kent is a showcase of low carbon and renewable technology. One of the top threeagricultural colleges in the UK, the Rural Regeneration Centre will use just 10% of the typical energy consumption of a modern building and is the first such buildingin the UK to be constructed
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
The European Space Agency has signed a fourth contract, out of a total of six, for the setting up of Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite program, the European Commission announced on Tuesday. The contract, valued at some 194 million euros (about 267 million U.S. dollars), was signed by the European Space Agency on behalf of
