Thursday, September 9th, 2010
In the midst of a difficult fire season in many parts of the world, the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online fire detection system that will help firefighters and natural hazards managers improve response time and resource management. The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) delivers fire data from
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today committed to help the capital cities of five states pursue high quality green development that includes cleaning up and recycling vacant lands, providing greater housing and transportation choices, and reducing infrastructure and energy costs. Through its new Greening America’s Capitals program, the EPA will fund private sector experts
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
RapidEye announced today that it has mandated Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to support its effort to raise additional funding for the company. “To finance new growth and expand our business we are looking for freshcapital,” says Wolfgang G. Biedermann, CEO of RapidEye AG. “We want to expand our market reach, our investment in new systems and our product development efforts more
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Holistic City Software has released CityCAD 2.0.5, the latest version of the urban design software tool. This is a maintenance release, meaning there aren’t any significant new features, but our development team have made several improvements and fixes. Also, the Online Database is now linked to the new City Design Reference Library, and allows you
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Infotech Enterprises Limited (Infotech) announced today that it has hired Greg Oaten as Strategy Advisor for Utilities. Greg will operate from Infotech’s Sydney office inAustralia and will focus on the APAC region. Greg will play a strategic role in developing and refining Infotech’s new service offerings in areas suchas Smart Grid and power engineering for its
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
The Government of Alberta has released the Water for Life action plan, the roadmap that the government and its partners will follow over the next 10 years. The action plan supports the goals and directions in Alberta’s renewed Water for Life strategy. The renewed strategy better reflects the population increase and economic growth Alberta has seen over the past
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Old maps have a certain reassuring permanence about them, not so the new ones – welcome to the age of real-time cartography – Australia Radio National presentation. Listen or download.
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
In just 6 days of scientific exploration, a team of 34 scientists, students, photographers and volunteers documented the presence of over 930 species of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, insects, land snails, and plants including two species never-before recorded in the remote, rugged and lush Sierra La Madera mountain range of Sonora. These discoveries were part
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in location intelligence, data management and customer communication management software, data and services, has announced that it will be attending the 2010 AGI Annual Conference – AGI GeoCommunity ’10 – in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK on September 28th to 30th 2010. The company will be speaking at the event and demonstrating
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
LASER measurement technology specialist Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL) is to accelerate its drive to become a world-class laser measurement technology manufacturing business after raising finance by selling a 29 per cent shareholding to global metrology and healthcare products manufacturer Renishaw plc. Family-owned business MDL, which has bases in York, Aberdeen and Houston, USA; will use
