Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) today announced the recipients of its 2010 Scholarship Program, for what was the Foundation’s most competitive year yet. This year, the Foundation awarded $86,000 to 19 recipients. Four Ph.D. candidates, six master’s students, six undergraduates and three graduating high school seniors received scholarships from this year’s program. High
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Two weeks after announcing its investment in DriverTech, Rand McNally unveiled future enhancements for the TruckPC mobile fleet management solution at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference and Exhibition in Phoenix. Rand McNally Truck PC, powered by DriverTech, utilizes Rand McNally’s leading IntelliRoute® TND™ truck navigation on DriverTech’s secure, industry-tested, on-board computing platform. The recently announced deal between the
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The CS650, CS655, and CWS655, our newest soil-water reflectometers, feature many improvements over their predecessors. These improvements include the ability to measure bulk electrical conductivity (EC) and soil temperature in addition to soil-water content. Innovative techniques allow the new sensors to make accurate water-content measurements for a wider EC range (up to 3.7 dS/m) without
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
What are the current trends and possible future policy options in migration, fertility, and mortality in European regions? How will an ageing population affect European regions in the next decades? What types of policies can be aimed at accommodating and changing demographic and migratory trends? These are some of the questions that will be open for
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Technological advances are driving European research and people are increasingly becoming dependent on technology to make their lives more efficient. Visual analytics marries analytical reasoning with visual interactive interfaces to resolve complex problems. The EU-funded VISMASTER (‘Visual analytics – Mastering the information age’) project, which received more than 530 000 in funding under the ‘Information
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, Minister responsible for Parks Canada and Minister responsible for Southern Alberta, along with Mr. Fred Green, Canadian Pacific President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), today announced a multi-faceted, research-based, five-year joint action plan to further mitigate rail-related grizzly bear mortality in Banff National Park. Railway-related wildlife mortality is
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The government’s use of technology must be weighed in the Fourth Amendment balance not because the Constitution constrains the government to employ antiquated surveillance techniques but because the march of science over the course of this century has time and again laid bare secrets that society had (erroneously) assumed to lie safely beyond the perception
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The redesigned geocoding engine in ArcGIS 10 lets you accurately map location information contained in tabular data, find single locations faster and easier than ever, and get higher match rates on addresses. To learn more about the benefits of the redesigned geocoding engine, tune in to Geocoding in ArcGIS Desktop 10 on Thursday, October 21, 2010.
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The information in this report is based on over 225 actual valuations of A/E/P and environmental consulting firms! Each year, ZweigWhite conducts a nationwide survey to identify design and environmental firms that use an internal formula for valuation, that have been merged or acquired, or that have been appraised by an independent valuation consultant. These
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The Council adopted conclusions on the EU position for the Cancún climate conference and in preparation for the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Read More
