Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
The value of standards is clearly demonstrable; we need only look to the manufacturing sector to see their value. In oceanography, there have been many discussions and solutions for processing data and information. Many useful ideas, each a solution to an immediate problem, have been developed and put into practice, but there have been few
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Version 2.1 of UK GEMINI2 includes changes to take into account the latest version of the INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules Technical Guidelines, as well as experience of use of the earlier version of UK GEMINI2. UK GEMINI specifies a core set of metadata elements for use in a geospatial discovery metadata service. The first version GEMINI,
Monday, September 6th, 2010
There are only 3 weeks left before the Minex 2010 Russian and CIS Mining Forum. Leaders of the following key mining companies confirmed presentation at the forum: Polyus Gold, Polymetal, Petropavlovsk, Atomredmetzoloto, Kinross Gold Corporation, SUEK, Raspadskaya Coal Company, Intergeo, Metalloinvest, Urangeo, MBC Corporation, Uralsky Nickel, Pavlik Gold Mining Company, Arlan Investment Company, Corporation Ural Industrial
Monday, September 6th, 2010
The EN 16001 standard of 2009 sets uniform EU-wide criteria for structured energy management systems. By implementing the standard, companies and organisations can improve their energy efficiency and identify energy saving potential. The new guideline published by UBA and BMU shows in a clear and practice-oriented way just how it is done and that doing so is
Monday, September 6th, 2010
eSpatial today announced that its market leading GIS product, iSMART supports access to the OS OnDemand services provided by Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. OS OnDemand delivers world-class Ordnance Survey mapping over the Web directly to your organisation – when you want it, where you want it, quickly. This web map service (WMS) offers Ordnance Survey licensed
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Fugro Pelagos, Inc. has made further software sales to subsea cable specialist Offshore Marine Management’s (OMM) survey services section. The company’s WinFrog integrated navigation software, first released in 1994, remains their flagship product and is the software of choice for OMM who have now invested in four product licenses from the California-based company. For further information
Monday, September 6th, 2010
The Lower Athabasca Regional Advisory Council presented its advice as a vision document on which government will seek public comment before developing a draft regional plan for the area. “The vision document provides advice on economic, environmental and community needs in Lower Athabasca,” said Mel Knight, Minister of Sustainable Resource Development, responsible for implementing the Land-use
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Shaanxi Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SHASM), established in 1957, is directly under the leadership of State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China (SBSM). It is one of the largest and most important surveying and mapping production base in China. Moreover, SHASM also performs surveying and mapping administration within Shaanxi Province. It mainly undertakes
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Just in time for FOSS4G the GeoServer community is pleased to announce the release of 2.1 beta1. The first beta release of the long awaited 2.1 branch is now available for download. Anticipation for this release has been growing over the last few months due to the number of notable new features it brings. Let’s go
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Land and Land Resources refer to a delineable area of the earth’s terrestrial surface, encompassing all attributes of the biosphere immediately above or below this surface, including those of the near-surface, climate, the soil and terrain forms, the surface hydrology (including shallow lakes, rivers, marshes and swamps), the near-surface sedimentary layers and associated groundwater and
