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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Bluesky Adds Northern Ireland Aerial Images to Historical Photo Archive

Bluesky has added more than 100,000 aerial photographs to its online collection of historically important images following an agreement with Land & Property Services (Northern Ireland) to supply the entire Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland photographic archive. The newly available archive includes complete countrywide coverage from 2002 onwards together with a vast array of mainly

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

HR Wallingford Creates New Environment Team

International research and consultancy organisation HR Wallingford has announced the creation of a new team of environmental specialists to enhance existing capabilities and act as a centre of excellence for aquatic environmental solutions. Environmental issues are at the heart of sustainable economic growth and social development. Management of the environment aims to conserve ecosystems now and

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

HOK Announces New Product Design Business

Global architectural design firm HOK has launched a new business:HOK Product Design, LLC. Through this venture, HOK designers from across the firm will design products for use in and around the firm’s core business of architecture and interior design. HOK Product Design will license its designs to manufacturers for fabrication and sale. “HOK has a history

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Datapaq Introduces the New TM21 Radio Telemetry System for Temperature Profiling

Datapaq, the world’s leading supplier of temperature profiling systems, introduced the revolutionary new RF Radio Telemetry system TM21 to complement the TPAQ21 and MultiPaq21 datalogger products. The TM21 system utilizes the latest radio frequency technology to allow temperature data transmission from the datalogger in real time. As the Datapaq system travels through the process (oven,

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Govt backs B87bn in Rail Improvement Projects

The government has approved in principle 11 railway improvement projects worth over 87.5 billion baht. Work on the projects is expected to start this year. Transport permanent secretary Supoj Saplorm said the State Railway of Thailand would improve the tracks and bridges and build a double track from Chachoengsao to Kaeng Khoi at the foot of the

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

City, Guelph Hydro Turn to Sun for Energy

The city and Guelph Hydro plan to harvest the sun. And you can help. Guelph Hydro plans the installation of thousands of solar panels on municipal, commercial, industrial, institutional and residential structures throughout the city. The project is part of the City of Guelph’s Community Energy Initiative, which “strongly recommends a target of (1,000) roofs of solar

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

CSIRO: ‘Smart’ Water Quality Sensor Network Wins iAward

A smart sensor network that is monitoring the quality of drinking water in south-east Queensland has earned CSIRO one of the Australian ICT industry’s highest accolades. At the Australian Information Industry Association’s annual awards in Melbourne, CSIRO was named winner of the 2010 iAward for research and development. Read More

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Windsor Adds Water to Smart Grid

The City of Windsor has signed on to become one of Ontario’s first municipal participants to connect its water and wastewater facilities to the next generation of smart grid services. The City of Windsor has agreed to connect its municipal water resources to Sempa Power’s Ancillary Services Network (ASN), a pilot project which will enable Ontario’s

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Leica Geosystems Updates its GNSS Quality Control and Data Analysis Software

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce Leica SpiderQC v4.0 aspart of the new reference station software update that also includes Leica GNSS Spider andLeica SpiderWeb. SpiderQC (previously known as GNSS QC) adds a range of advanced featuresfor multi-frequency, multi-GNSS data analysis, visualization, and numerous other new features,improvements, and optimizations. SpiderQC provides a suite of tools to

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

CESSDA – Official commitment to Set Up a European Data Infrastructure

Five European countries, Norway, Germany, Lituania, Finland and The Netherlands, signed on 29 June in Brussels a memorandum of understanding to commit their financial and political support for the setting up of CESSDA, a European social science data infrastructure. The Council of European Social Science Data Archives ‘CESSDA’ is a network of 20 European archives providing access gateway to important