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Monday, October 4th, 2010

Award-Winning Architects Use BIM to Wed Nature and Urban Living

The hills of San Francisco, a beloved garden, and bountiful California sunlight converge in the award-winning Diamond Project, an innovative home designed in ArchiCAD building information modeling (BIM) software. Built by Terry & Terry Architecture of Berkeley, Calif., the project won a 2010 AIA Housing Award, whose jury called it “crisp and sculptural, exquisitely detailed. It

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Extended Abstracts from the ASEG-PESA Airborne Gravity 2010 Workshop

The Airborne Gravity 2010 workshop was held on the 22 August 2010 as part of the recent 2010 ASEG-PESA 21st International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition in Sydney, Australia. The objective of this workshop was to provide a review of the advances in airborne gravity since the Airborne Gravity 2004 Workshop. A joint publication by Geoscience

Monday, October 4th, 2010

PCI Geomatics Announces the Release of GXL Aerial

PCI Geomatics will announce the launch of its GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (GXL-A) software at the Intergeo 2010 Conference this October 5-7 in Cologne, Germany. This follows an earlier announcement in March when Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, agreed to partner with PCI to produce an image processing system specifically for Vexcel Imaging’s UltraCam aerial

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Global Consortium of Space Agencies to Meet at USGS

The U.S. Geological Survey will host the 24th Secretariat and Board meetings of the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters in Washington, D.C. on October 4-7, 2010. The Charter is an organization of space agencies around the globe that operate earth-imaging satellites and provide data free of charge to assist emergency responders worldwide.  Founded

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Launch of Green Star Awards to Find the Environment’s Humanitarian Heroes

The search for individuals, organizations, governments and private enterprises that have demonstrated leadership in preparing for, responding to, and reducing the environmental impacts of disasters and conflicts has begun with the launching of the 2nd biennial Green Star Awards. Nominations are being received until 30 November 2010 with the awards ceremony taking place in May

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

HUMBOLDT Alignment Editor

The HUMBOLDT Alignment Editor is a RCP application that allows to interactively design transformations on a conceptual schema level. It supports import of schemas from different sources, such as Eclipse ecore, WFS and GML Application Schemas. The defined transformations are stored either locally or in the HUMBOLDT Model Repository and used by the Conceptual Schema Transformer

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

HUMBOLDT GeoModel Editor

The HUMBOLDT GeoModel Editor is an UML-based, visual editor specifically designed for developing complex application schemas for geodata. It comes pre-packaged with models of all important standards and allows you to export created models in various formats, from ecore over XMI to GML application schemas. Read More

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Siemens Acquires Site Controls

The Building Technologies Division of Siemens Industry, Inc. is acquiring Austin-based Site Controls which provides enterprise-wide energy management solutions for multi-site commercial businesses. Site Controls says its energy management platform, Site-Command, “integrates hardware and software to provide customers with real-time centralized visibility and control of multiple locations from a central point. Read More

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Quality Control Group Establishment of ESDAC Data

EURO/day  plus  travel  expenses)experts of   the  European   Commission   (450 according   to  standard   procedures   for  fee paid  for   the   peer  review  and  QA/QC  procedures • Reviewers  reimbursed  for  the  time  required  https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfmindependent   experts of   FP7: • Registered   members  within   the  database   of  • Restricted   group  of

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

GlobalSoilMap.net

The GlobalSoilMap.net project aims to make a new digital soil map of the world using state-of-the-art and emerging technologies for soil mapping and predicting soil properties at fine resolution. This new global soil map will be supplemented by interpretation and functionality options that aim to assist better decisions in a range of global issues such