Monday, July 12th, 2010
FARO, the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging systems, is proud to announce that Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and FARO have signed an agreement for FARO to be the measurement system provider for the F1 racing team. Thanks to the new agreement FARO is now an ‘Official Supplier’ for measuring systems and became a
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. and FARO announced their collaboration to add direct integration of point cloud data to AutoCAD 2011software. FARO and Autodesk have also entered into an agreement for FARO to promote AutoCAD Plant 3Dsoftware as its preferred 3D modelling application for the process plant industry. Read More
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
IODE – The value of standards is clearly demonstrable; we need only look to the manufacturing sector to see their value. In oceanography, there have been many discussions and solutions for processing data and information. Many useful ideas, each a solution to an immediate problem, have been developed and put into practice, but there have
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
CBC – Young people who constantly swap and share personal information through networks today are likely to value sharing over privacy even as they age, technology watchers predict. Two-thirds of 895 technology experts and stakeholders surveyed about the future of the internet believe the millennial generation, born mainly in the 1980s and 1990s, will make
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Bob Gilligan, vice president, GE’s Digital Energy business, issued this statement today about how the heat wave in the northeastern U.S. underscores the need for the country to invest in smart grid technologies: “As record-breaking temperatures in the northeastern United States have consumers turning up their air conditioners, our overburdened electric grid is taking center
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
The Canwest News Service reports that, “A coalition of organizations began a campaign Thursday urging Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner not to introduce legislation that would establish a province-wide water market. Read More
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Marine Environmental Remote-controlled Measuring And Integrated Detection – an international team of scientists and engineers developed automatic sensors and analyzers, mounted on a network of radio-controlled stations, to sample, measure and record chemical and biological changes to water. The project later became one of the cornerstones of the intergovernmental GOOS, Global Ocean Observing System. Read
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
LISAsoft is pleased to introduce its newest team member, Byron Cochrane, who is based in Auckland. LISAsoft sees opportunities for long-term growth and development within the New Zealand market. LISAsoft is involved in the creation and implementation of open standards through our relationship with the OGC, or Open Geospatial Consortium, which governs the standards for
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
This paper summarises the findings from the recent research and identifies the economic value of geospatial information in local public service delivery at regional and national level in 2009 and 2015, benefits of geospatial information and the current barriers and opportunities to making better use of the information. Read More
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Esri has released a new, no-cost add-on for ArcGIS 10 that allows ArcGIS users to contribute data, using the editing capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop, to OpenStreetMap. Volunteered geographic information (VGI), such as that available from OpenStreetMap, is playing an increasingly significant role in emergency response during crises like the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of
