Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Leica Geosystems releases the next generation of its unique Leica SP Technology further enhancing flexibility and productivity when grading with a dozer. SP Technology now also supports machine control with total stations, providing high precision and increased grading speed in environments where GPS is not useable. This additional functionality allows users to choose the positioning
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Leica Geosystems announces a major update to Cyclone II TOPO, version 2.0 at SPAR 2011 International conference. The new version automates the previously time-consuming process of creating accurate ground surfaces (TINs or meshes) from rich High-Definition Survey™ (HDS™) point clouds. Now, users can create these surfaces in minutes instead of hours or even days. Learn
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies announced that SuperPad 3, the full-functioned mobile GIS software of SuperGIS 3 series products, now supports Italian and Korean languages. Possessing powerful and comprehensive GIS functions, which integrates the mapping, GIS and GPS functions into hand-held mobile devices, SuperPad 3 assists surveyors in collecting, editing, and measuring related spatial data effectively.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Water Minister Tony Burke has today hosted a roundtable with representatives from Australian environment and conservation groups on Murray Darling Basin reform. Mr Burke met with representatives from environment and conservation groups including the Australian Conservation Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, the Australian Floodplain Association, the farming sector and state and national parks associations’. Mr Burke said
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
In order to promote scientific research on sustainable forest management, the ECE/FAO Forestry and Timber section has launched a PhD Thesis Award. The prize of 10,000 USD dollars will be awarded to the best PhD thesis providing new data and insights into forest management, and how to balance forest conservation, forest productivity and social well being.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Autodesk, Inc. announced its 2012 portfolio of software for the AEC industry. The updated portfolio supports the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process by offering comprehensive software solutions to help architects, engineers, planners, contractors, facility managers and owners in the building and infrastructure industries meet today’s business challenges. In addition to new and updated software products,
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Budapest Ferihegy Airport’s SkyCourt, connecting the airport’s 2A and 2B terminals, has been awarded the annual Tierney Clark Award for Best Civil Engineering Project. The award was established in 2000 by the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers, and the Hungarian Association of Consulting Engineers and Architects. It is named after
Monday, March 21st, 2011
AGC’s 92nd Annual Convention / 2011 CONEXPO – CON/AGG – March 21, 2011 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that Bentley Navigator V8i has won a 2011 Constructech Top Products Award in the “Trusted Product” category. The awards honor technology solutions that have demonstrated the greatest
Monday, March 21st, 2011
After the sign of the Collaboration Agreement with Centre for Geospatial Science, the University of Nottingham, the gvSIG Association collaborates with the ELOGeo project (An e-Learning Framework for Using Geospatial Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards ) by providing English training documentation about gvSIG.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
The lives of a billion of the world’s poorest people could be improved though investing in community forest management, according to a recent IUCN study. As the world celebrates World Forest Day, IUCN urges decision-makers to recognize the various benefits of forests for forest dependent communities. Only a small fraction of the US$ 12 billion
