Monday, December 13th, 2010
GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that it has appointed Tony Frazier as its senior vice president of Marketing. Frazier most recently served as senior director of Product Management and Marketing at Cisco Systems, where he focused on bringing to market emerging technologies
Monday, December 13th, 2010
After several years of public debate and planning, construction has begun on the Milton-Madison Bridge along the Kentucky-Indiana border in the US. The work involves reinforcing the bridge’s original support piers as well as replacing the ageing superstructure with a wider and safer one.
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Virkisjökull is an outlet glacier draining the western flanks of Oraefajökull, the southern extremity of the Vatnajökull ice cap in south-east Iceland. The glacier is sensitive to climatic forcing due to a relatively low accumulation–ablation area ratio and significant altitudinal difference between summit and margin. The long-term BGS monitoring project at Virkisjökull aims to quantify glacial and geomorphological
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The rehabilitation and upgrade of the Agus and Pulangi hydroelectric power facilities will cost around P3 billion, an official said. “The rehabilitation work needed to put up an additional 100 to 200 megawatts will cost around P2 billion. If we would like to add or uprate some of the facilities, for instance Pulangi, which will
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Mr. Michael Engelskirchen, GTZ Transport Advisor, was invited to make a presentation about the Rea Vaya BRT system in Johannesburg as a best practice example for the implementation of BRT in African cities. The presentation was held in the Public Transport, Modal Choice and integration session on 5th October 2010 and was attended by more
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Deere & Co. completed the $900 million sale of its wind-energy business to a subsidiary of power generator Exelon Corp. The company said Friday it sold John Deere Renewables LLC to focus on its core farm-equipment business. Exelon, which is renaming the business Exelon Wind, said it was new to owning and operating wind projects
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
Eniro, the Nordic region’s largest search company, has switched to C3 Technologies’ new oblique aerial imaging solution for Eniro Maps of the top 30 cities in Sweden. Oblique images allow users to see the sides of buildings and other objects, which makes it much easier to recognize an address or a point of interest. By switching to
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
A key policy issue in a national and European context is where does and should public money go and how can it be best used to influence the geography of growth? For the project ‘Secondary cities in Europe: Performance, Policies and Prospects’ the key question to answer is: ‘Are the benefits of a centralised urban system
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
The world’s population is now majority urban with the number of urban dwellers rising by nearly 60 million people per year. It is expected that in 2050, seven out of ten people in the world will live in cities. This rapid population growth has often outpaced the ability of local governments to provide basic public
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
This new book, edited by Professor John Catt, and now published by the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, was planned as long ago as 1950, with a first draft started by Percy Evans, who died in 1973 before it was finished. The project was revived by John, who persuaded several specialists to complete their long-promised contributions,
