Monday, August 16th, 2010
The Timber Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) meets again this year on 11-14 October 2010 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, to discuss latest developments affecting the forest sector. Read More
Monday, August 16th, 2010
If you are new to Fledermaus Version 7 or considering it for your next project, join Product Specialist Erin Heffron for this free webinar outlining the basics of the Version 7 Fledermaus Module. Read More
Monday, August 16th, 2010
With today’s release of Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) 4.0, there is new support for two more important capabilities: mobile-based access to GEE systems, and Google Earth Enterprise Portable Solution. GEE 4.0 also has full support for the new Google Earth 5.2 client, with its many great new features, such as elevation profiles, native MGRS support,
Monday, August 16th, 2010
I’ve owned a handheld GPS ever since the first “consumer-grade” model, the Motorola Traxar, was released in 1993: $900, 6 AA batteries, 8 satellites max, could only record waypoints, and about the size and weight of a brick. Man, was that an awesome GPS unit! I’ve upgraded several times since then, and am glad that
Monday, August 16th, 2010
The energy group EnBW Regional AG and the fire brigade were in the city of Hamburg this year for their outstanding achievements with the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) award Award. Was presented the award at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego by ESRI Inc. founder and president Jack Dangermond. To receive the prestigious award,
Monday, August 16th, 2010
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson as a member of the new UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability. “I am tremendously pleased and grateful for the opportunity to be a member of this panel on an issue of such importance to all humankind. This is also recognition of Sweden’s
Monday, August 16th, 2010
he United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has established 15 Reference Centres worldwide on the basis of their recognised experience in desertification and land degradation issues. This is done in order to implement country reporting guidelines and development activities for a new indicator-based monitoring and assessment process at regional, sub-regional and national levels. Read
Monday, August 16th, 2010
NPR – Renewable energy installations in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2000 and 2008, driven in large part by the clean energy goals that states are setting. The first map shows how states are planning on putting more clean power on the grid, and the second map shows what percentage of a state’s total electricity currently
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Join us at The Thames Water Barrier to hear how Autodesk analysis tools will help you plan and design urban drainage systems, storm and foul sewers. Integrating stormwater and wastewater analysis tools during planning and design will help improve overall project producitivty and increase your engineering capabilities in the UK. Aimed at those who work in
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
The JRC has recently published an “Invitation to Tender” for the “development of the technical components of the INSPIRE Geo-portal at European Union level “. Both the contract notice (http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:234033-2010:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0) and the full text of the ITT (http://web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/callsfortender/index.cfm?action=app.homepage&instdir=5&type=1) are publically available.
