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Friday, October 8th, 2010

Sochi Olympics Sites on Satellite Images

Highly detailed space imagery is actively applied for monitoring of construction activities of the sites related to the Sochi Olympic Games. Analysis of multi-temporal satellite data enables to assess the dynamics of erection of the Olympic buildings in different parts of the Sochi town. In all, there will be over 200 new installations constructed by

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Expansion of Australian Contaminated Site Legislation

The criteria for assessing contaminated land are going to be extended and made more comprehensive from next year. If you own or manage contaminated land, you need to read this article. Site assessments of confirmed and suspected contaminated land in NSW must follow the National Environment Protection Council (New South Wales) Act 1995 (the NEPC Act). This

Friday, October 8th, 2010

ISRO and CNES to Launch SARAL in 2011

SARAL is a satellite that can be used to monitor the level of sea water. It is jointly developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French National Space Agency (CNES). The satellite will carry a Ka-band radar altimeter, AltiKa, and a data collection system, ARGOS. ISRO is responsible for building as well

Friday, October 8th, 2010

DevGeo Event Will Jumpstart Your Mapping App Development

Esri will host a free DevGeo event Thursday afternoon, November 4, 2010, in Santa Clara, California, at the Network Meeting Center.  DevGeo Silicon Valley is for developers who want to add dynamic mapping capabilities to their Web and mobile applications.Sessions ar e designed to help software developers who work with JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight, iOS, or Windows

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Larry Ellison Unveils ORACLE Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world’s first and only integrated middleware machine—a combined hardware and software offering designed to revolutionize datacenter consolidation. Read More

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Tunbridge Wells Rolls Out Dotted Eyes’ Contractor Portal

Dotted Eyes, the market leading GeoData and information software specialist, today announces the deployment of its Contractor Portal data sharing system by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC).  Completed on time and on budget, the system is already meeting the Council’s need for a low-cost solution to providing automated data access to contractors, partners and internal

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Building Stronger INSPIRE Based Community Networks: Extending HUMBOLDT

1Spatial, including other consortium members; RSW Geomatics and Rob Walker Consultancy, has just completed a project for the Joint Research Council (JRC) on Schema Transformation Network Services for INSPIRE. The project involved a review of the current tools and standards available to the community to achieve schema transformation into INSPIRE compliant data structures. The primary

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

AeroGRID To Provide Aerial Photography of South Africa

AeroGRID has announced the availability of wide area aerial photography of South Africa. The imagery, which comprises over 400,000km² of orthophoto coverage includes high resolution photos of Cape Town, is being supplied by Geosense a core  AeroGRID partner. “Following our recent agreement with Ramani (Nairobi) to distribute their Kenyan photography, this addition of extensive South African

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

AeroGRID Adds Full Aerial Coverage of France and Spain

  AeroGRID has signed agreements with two new partners, IGN, France (Institut Geographique National) and CNIG España adding full orthophoto coverage of France and Spain to its already impressive aerial photography coverage of Western Europe.

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

DataCAD Announces GrafiCalc 2011

DataCAD Software & Services GmbH, a provider of technical software solutions for the industry, today announced the release of GrafiCalc 2011 software from GEOMATE. It enables users to simulate and solve all critical engineering challenges before committing the design to CAD and manufacturing resources. Net results are higher qualityproducts that can be produced cost-effectively to perform as expected