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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

AEM Announces New Geospatial Products Group

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers formed a new product group — the AEM Geospatial Industry Group — to serve manufacturers of various types of surveying/positioning systems such as GPS and GIS/LIS. Product groups in AEM provide a forum for manufacturers of similar equipment to discuss and take action on industry issues of mutual interest. The

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Lockheed Martin Advancing on Next-Generation Commercial Remote Sensing Satellite System for GeoEye

The Lockheed Martinteam developing GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite system known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed on-schedule a System Requirements Review (SRR), an important program milestone that precedes the Preliminary Design Review. With launch scheduled to support start of operations in 2013, Lockheed Martin is developing GeoEye-2 under a fixed price contract to support

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

modeLab | Material Parametrics Workshop

Material Parametrics is a two-day intensive design and prototyping workshop (with an optional third day) to be held in New York City during the weekend of September 25. Over the course of two(+) days participants will examine the cultural as well as technological domains of associative practices within architecture and its related fields. Participants will

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

SimActive Secures Multiple Sales of its Correlator3D™ Photogrammetry Software

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of software solutions for the generation of geospatial data, is pleased to announce the acquisition of four (4) of its Correlator3D™ products by Japanese firms Nakano-Ai and Osysmap. SimActive’s entire software suite will be used to improve environmental conditions in urban areas. 

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Navigation Satellites Contend with Stormy Sun

Just as we grow used to satellite navigation in everyday life, media reports argue that a coming surge in solar activity could render satnav devices useless, perhaps even frying satellites themselves. Is it true? No. Read More

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Autodesk Announces AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS App for iPad and iPhone

Autodesk, a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announcedAutoCAD for Mac software. This version of AutoCAD, one of the most widely used software for professional design and engineering, runs natively on Mac OS X and will increase choice of hardware for millions of users around the world. Autodesk also announced the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Maintaining the Role of Canada’s Forests and Peatlands in Climate Regulation

Canada’s forest and peatland ecosystems are globally significant carbon stores, whose management will be influenced by climate change mitigation policies such as offset systems. To be effective, these policies must be grounded in objective information on the relationships between land use, ecosystem carbon dynamics, and climate. Here, we present the out- comes of a workshop

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Leading Researcher in Biological Diversity and Ecosystem Services to Receive the Volvo Environment Prize

The Volvo Environment Prize is an annual scientific award now presented for the 21st time. This year’s prizewinner has for many years been a leading light within research into biological diversity and especially how important it is for the functioning of ecosystem services. This concept has been widely acknowledged in recent years, perhaps mainly due

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Payloads for Chandrayaan-2 Mission Finalised

ISRO – Chandrayaan2, India’s second mission to moon, is being targeted for launch during 2013. Chandrayaan2 will have an orbiter (satellite), a lander and a rover. Chandrayaan-2 is planned to be launched onboard Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. While the lander will be provided by Russia, the orbiter and the

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Google Earth for Android 1.1 Gets Ocean Views

Google added ocean views to its Google Earth for Android application, a move that should have greater import when tablet computers based on Android arrive en masse to tantalize folks looking to surf the Web with a larger palette. Google Earth for Android 1.1 will let users check out the aquatic landscape and terrain in Monterery