Thursday, August 19th, 2010
3-GIS, an Alabama based product development and services company has announced the addition of two new teammembers to the business development department. Burl Rowland and Dustin Sutton join 3-GIS as Executive Solutions Consultants. Rowland and Sutton will concentrate their efforts in increasing 3-GIS product awareness in the electric cooperative and municipality sectors; furthering the 3-GIS
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
3D Laser Mapping has opened a new global headquarters near Nottingham, UK, following continued expansion of its worldwide laser scanning solutions business. This relocation to larger premises will allow for development of a dedicated research and development facility together with the capacity and capability for equipment testing and calibration. The new premises will also provide
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
OS Insider is the brand new newsletter highlighting some of the projects currently being worked on at Ordnance Survey. Available on the Ordnance Survey blog, it has been created to keep you informed about everything that is happening inside Great Britain’s national mapping agency. The first edition of OS Insider focuses on some of the innovative uses
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
SSE Telecoms, the telecoms business ofScottish and Southern Energy, has selected GE’s Smallworld NetworkInventory solution as their asset management system, GE announced today.The Smallworld Network Inventory solution will increase the efficiencyand accuracy of network access records to enable a new level of customerservice across SSE Telecoms 8000km UK-wide fiber optic network. “We selected GE’s Smallworld Network
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
The UN-REDD Viet Nam Programme is inviting qualified companies or consortia to express their interest in the following assignment: * Establishment of historical forest status maps at district level. Full details can be found at http://www.vietnam-redd.org/Web/Default.aspx?tab=newsdetail&zoneid=107&itemid=124&lang=en-US. Deadline for submission: 17 September 2010.
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Four eastern Himalayan countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal – officially commenced a three-day high-level technical consultative meeting in Kathmandu on the ‘Sacred Himalayas for Water, Livelihoods, and Bio-cultural Heritage’. The meeting is being organised by ICIMOD and the Royal Government of Bhutan and expected outcomes will create a roadmap leading to the proposed
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber section has now made available forest products data for 2009. Data have now been released:
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
3D GeoInfo 2010 aims at bringing together international researchers from academia, industry, and government in the field of 3D geoinformation. We are inviting researchers and companies to participate and present their activities to international experts in the field of 3D geo information technology. The conference offers an inter-disciplinary forum in the fields of:– Data collection and modelling: advanced
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
RapidEye announced today that Santiago & Cintra Consultoria, its distributor in Brazil, will now have an expanded sales territory in South America which includes the countries of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela. John Ahlrichs, Vice President of RapidEye commented, “Santiago & Cintra Consutoria has strongly and successfully organized and developed the Brazilian market for RapidEye data since becoming
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document Shipping emits considerable amounts of air pollutants which affect the climate, the natural environment and human health. In collaboration with the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA), SMHI has developed a new system for calculating emissions from shipping. Knowledge of these has previously been very limited. Shipping is undoubtedly the most significant source of sulphur emissions,
