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
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. announced that GeoEye Imagery Collection Systems Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GeoEye, Inc., has signed a procurement contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, an operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, to complete the development and construction of the GeoEye-2 satellite and the associated command and control system. Prior to entering this procurement
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
A German-Italian joint venture that includes Finmeccanica SpA won a 194 million-euro ($271 million) contract to support the European Union’s flagship satellite project, moving the EU closer to creating a rival to the U.S. GPS system. SpaceOpal GmbH, established by the German Aerospace Center and Finmeccanica’s Telespazio SpA unit, received the contract for the operations of the space
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Károly Róbert College tasked Envirosense, Hungary, to acquire the first hyperspectral and Lidar imagery of the disaster area. First ever “red mud” hyperspectralimages in remote sensing history enable to access the area of contamination with toxic spill in Hungary.SPECIM´s AisaEAGLE hyperspectral system from the College has been chosen to providethe complete coverage of the territory
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Murcott to the role of Geospatial Standards Leader within the New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO). Richard joined Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and assumed his new role on 18 October. Representing a new position within the NZGO, the Geospatial Standards Leader administers the standards stream of
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
The 19th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition will take place in Berlin Germany (Conference: 6-10 June 2011 – Exhibition: 6-9 June 2011). The Technical Programme is coordinated by the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
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