Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Colortrac Limited, the NEW leader and innovator in large format scanners, has further extended its commitment to profitable business expansion with the appointment of Rob van Brakel to its senior management team. He joins the British wide format scanner manufacturer as their new Marketing Manager with worldwide responsibility for developing and implementing all elements of
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Infotech Enterprises GmbH today announced that it has become the first in Germany and surrounding area to join the Extensible CAD Technologies’ Reseller Program for InspectionXpert and Office2PDM. Infotech Enterprises will resell, service and support the InspectionXpert product line to their clients primarily across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. InspectionXpert is a quality control oriented platform that helps users create
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
he Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently concluded the OGC Web Services, Phase 7 (OWS-7) Testbed initiative. Interoperability architectures, enhancements to existingOGC standards, and candidate standards developed in the testbed for sensors, video change detection, database synchronization, information cataloguing, web processing services, event architecture and aviation will be presented in a 2 hour webinar. The webinar
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
In business since 1988, LandAir Surveying specializes in site surveys and topographic surveys for a broad range of industries from telecommunications to transportation. A particularly challenging highway project prompted LandAir president, Tate Jones to invest in a HDS™ laser scanner. Today, the firm uses the HDS6100, HDS6000 and the ScanStation II laser scanners to facilitate
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that TÜV NORD of Germany, an official accreditation body for ISO 9001 standards, has not only extended RapidEye’s ISO-certification after an extensive audit for its Quality Management Systems (QMS) but upgraded the certification to the
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Poor water quality is affecting almost a quarter of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, a new study revealed on Wednesday. The 10-year study carried out by the Australian Institute of Marine Science found 22 percent of the Great Barrier Reef – almost 650 reefs – did not meet water quality guidelines. The study found
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The Commission proposes a framework and common objectives to prevent soil degradation, to preserve soil functions and to remediate degraded soil. Under this proposal, which forms part of the strategy, risk areas and polluted sites are identified and provision is made to remediate degraded soil. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority (DECA), has now published an analysis of the social and economic benefits associated with the decision in 2002 to provide the official Danish address data “free of charge” for public as well as commercial re-use. The main conclusion of the study is that the direct financial benefits from the agreement for society in the
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The Presidents and representatives of ELRA , EuroGeographics , EULIS and the PCC met today to share information about their respective projects and work plans, namely the CROBECO , LINE and ESDIN projects and the work programme of the Belgium Presidency of the PCC. There was agreement that each in their own capacity might contribute to the work of each
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The prediction comes from research study calculations indicating that land in Bangkok on average subsides about one centimetre annually. The study is a cooperative project on geodynamics called ‘Geodetic Earth Observation Technologies for Thailand: Environmental Change Detection and Investigation’ — GEO2TECDI — between Thai-based and European Union institutes. Read More
