Friday, October 8th, 2010
Minister of the Environment Paula Lehtomäki (Centre) urges that the removal of nitrogen from wastewater be intensified in all parts of the country, as it causes eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. At present, the requirements are rather modest in many places. ”In coastal areas the removal of nitrogen has already been enhanced, but the same standards
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Mr. Florian Neisser, Geographer at the University of Bonn, has finalized his research on the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal as “An Interactive Platform to Foster Space Technology Utilization in Disaster Management”. His thesis addresses the problem of a communication gap between the space technology and the disaster management community by applying the Actor-Network Theory and analyzing
Friday, October 8th, 2010
East View Cartographic (EVC) has been chosen by GeoEye to produce high quality Digital Elevation Models (DEM) derived from GeoEye-1 and IKONOS stereo imagery. “For several years, customers around the world have benefited from East View Cartographic’s imagery relationship with GeoEye. GeoEye’s choice of EVC to handle high resolution DEM creation from their imagery is a
Friday, October 8th, 2010
-Intermap Technologies today announced the appointment of Nigel Jackson, to the position of interim chief financial officer, effective October 4, 2010. Mr. Jackson replaces outgoing vice president and CFO, Brian Musfeldt, who remains employed with the Company until November 1, 2010. Mr. Jackson previously served as Intermap’s vice president finance and secretary from 1996 to 2003.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
OpenGeo today announced that OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey will be keynoting the Minnesota GIS/LIS conference at the Duluth Convention Center next week. Ramsey’s keynote, titled “Be Not Afraid: A Managers Field Guide to Life in an Open Source World” will be presented 8:30 on Thursday, October 14. In addition, Mr. Ramsey will be presenting two workshops
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Esri Press has updated its popular GIS Tutorial 1 and GIS Tutorial 2 workbooks for compatibility with ArcGIS 10. The new GIS Tutorial 3 completes this comprehensive series. GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook by Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland provides an introduction to geographic information system (GIS) concepts that is easy to understand. The
Friday, October 8th, 2010
VisionMap Ltd announced today the availability of its newest product, the A3 CIR large format digital camera. A3 CIR (color-IR) provides near-infrared imagery (NIR) in combination with high resolution color imagery. The new product leverages A3’s well known superior collection efficiency as well as the complimentary fully automated workflow provided by the A3 Processing System. In
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Trimble introduced its next generation Trimble® GPS Pathfinder® ProXRT receiver, a versatile decimeter receiver combining dual-frequency GPS with Trimble H-Star™ technology, along with optional OmniSTAR and GLONASS support. In addition, the GPS Patinder ProXRT receiver is now capable of tracking Galileo test satellites for signal evaluation and test purposes. The announcement was made today at INTERGEO
Friday, October 8th, 2010
The European Green Capital Conference, which will be held on 20-22 October, will gather decision makers from ambitious European cities and interested cities from around the world who wish to discuss the challenges facing urban sustainability in both a European and global context. The Conference is being held in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Stockholm
Friday, October 8th, 2010
e-on software, the leader in Digital Nature solutions today announced the immediate availability of a free Open Beta of Carbon Scatter, the company’s instancing plugin for the mental ray™ and V-Ray™ renderers for 3DS Max. Carbon Scatter is the most simple and straightforward solution for creating complex and detailed populations using the native instancing technologies of
