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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

NCS Partners Smart Grid Leader Ferranti to Exploit Opportunities in Deregulated Asia-Pacific Energy Markets

MECOMS is Ferranti’s end-to-end solution for energy utility markets. The state-of-the-art technology handles all major elements of utility distribution, including billing and customer care. Defining features of MECOMS include full integration, short implementation time, and a user-friendly interface. Based on the Microsoft Dynamics AX solution, MECOMS is highly customisable and well-suited for deployment in rapidly

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

C3 Releases Software Development Kit for Creating Geo-Location, Mobile, Social Apps

C3 Technologies today released its first software development kit (SDK) for creating search, navigation and geo-location desktop and mobile applications that utilize the company’s photo-realistic 3D maps. The C3 SDK comes with 3D maps of San Francisco and London for developing and testing applications that can work with the more than 100 maps in the C3

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Communities, Commodities, and Carbon; Annual Yale ISTF Conference; Jan 27-29, 2011

Despite sustained efforts to combat global deforestation, tropical forest management that provides for human livelihoods and conservation remains an elusive goal. Creative problem solving and knowledge-sharing are key to finding lasting solutions to this intractable problem. Recent innovations are providing new approaches in community engagement, market-based strategies for reducing agricultural encroachment, and carbon-based climate change mitigation

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Pakistan Forest Digest

The Pakistan Forest Digest is published by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Islamabad in collaboration with NCCR (North-South) Switzerland. It covers the forest related news published in leading national and local newspaper. It is published in Urdu and English languages. For hard copies of the Urdu version, pl. send an e.mail to [email protected] http://nccr-pakistan.org/publications_pdf/Forests/PakForestDigestAprJun2010.pdf http://nccr-pakistan.org/publications.html#literature2  

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Hyperspec Point & Stare Sensor Named as Finalist for Prestigious 2010 Prism Award

Headwall Photonics’ Hyperspec Point & Stare sensor was named as a finalist for the 2010 Prism Award in the Defense & Security category. The prestigious Prism Award honors leading companies and products around the world that demonstrate the highest degree of innovation in the field of photonics.

Monday, January 10th, 2011

NAVTEQ Tool Calculates Savings and Business Benefits Delivered by Navigation Systems

NAVTEQ has launched a free online tool which calculates the potential savings delivered by using navigation systems.  The service has been designed to cover both private and professional drivers and can be used, for example, by fleet managers to estimate the impact in relation to a group of vehicles or by car dealerships and PND

Monday, January 10th, 2011

GeoEye Names Dean Edmundson Vice President of Business Development

GeoEye, Inc.has appointed Dean Edmundson to the position of vice president of Business Development. Edmundson joined GeoEye on Dec. 27, 2010 and is located at the Company’s headquarters in Dulles, Va. Edmundson will play a key role in developing new markets for GeoEye’s EyeQ™ and other information services in the international, commercial and federal sectors.

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Leica Reveals XPro 5.0 Digital Surface Model Extraction Model

Leica Geosystems, a leading manufacturer of airborne sensors, has recently announced a DSM extraction module for its leading line sensor workflow software Leica XPro. Leica XPro offers the fastest workflow from data download to image generation – processing at the speed of flight. Learn More

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Infigen Gets Nod for Solar Farm

The company, which traditionally builds wind farms in Australia and overseas, has partnered with the world’s biggest solar panel maker, Suntech, for the $300 million project which will have a 100-megawatt capacity, or enough to power 20,000 homes. The solar farm will cover 200 hectares at Nyngan, in the state’s west. The electricity generated by the plant

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Extensive Ecoforest Map of Northern Continuous Boreal Forest, Québec, Canada

Since the late 1960s, the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec (MRNFQ) has periodically carried  out forest mapping activities at a scale of 1: 20,000 in Québec’s forest areas south of 51º 30’ north latitude, the territory under forest management. It integrates permanent environment and vegetation variables including potential vegetation.