Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The Java Reconstruction Fund (JRF) pooled contributions from seven donor countries totaling US$94.1 million. A community-driven approach, fueled by the spirit of “gotong royong” – a Javanese expression to illustrate communal cooperation to achieve a shared objective – led to the building of 15,153 permanent earthquake resistant houses and completion of 1,892 infrastructure projects such
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
On December 4 and 5, in over twenty locations around the world, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank will host the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), their progressive initiative that brings together volunteer software developers and experts in disaster risk management for a weekend-long “hackathon” to create software solutions that can help mitigate or respond to disasters
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
RG has teamed up with Flodim, the French sonar specialists, to bring a full range of sonar survey services to the UK. Commercial operations will commence in November 2010 with field units based in Deganwy, North Wales as well as in Manosque in the South of France. We will offer offshore operations from early 2011.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Alongside industry-leading GIS consulting and training services for the oil and gas sector, Exprodat provides a range of GIS-based software designed specifically for use in petroleum exploration and production (E&P) departments. One of these is the popular Team-GIS KBridge.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Pitney Bowes Business Insight has announced that Somerset County Council has gone live with the UK’s most advanced highways management system, based on Confirm®, PBBI’s market-leading infrastructure asset maintenance and management system.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The European environment — state and outlook 2010 (SOER 2010) is aimed primarily at policymakers, in Europe and beyond, involved with framing and implementing policies that could support environmental improvements in Europe. The information also helps European citizens to better understand, care for and improve Europe’s environment.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Forty-nine Ashtech® MobileMapper® 6 GPS/GIS field terminals have been purchased by two key Republic of Kosovo agencies, the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) and the Kosovo Cadastre Agency (KCA), to map property boundaries to help resolve private property claims. While the KPA is specialized in solving property and juridical conflicts, the KCA on the other hand
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the release of Bentley Pipe Renewal Planner, a new decision support tool that provides water utility owner-operators with a quantifiable and reproducible best practice for optimizing the replacement and rehabilitation of distribution network pipes. Pipe Renewal Planner ranks the worst-performing pipes in the network, helping owner-operators more effectively prioritize network upgrades.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Smartphone application developers appear to be exceptionally interested in the new Windows® Phone 7, according to recent media reports. Just in time for the holidays, Microsoft Press announces a new slate of books and ebooks for Windows Phone 7. Tapping the expertise of Microsoft engineers and software designers, as well as top industry consultants and trainers,
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
We’re sharing some of our PointCloud CAD features with MicroSurvey CAD 2010 – creating an Ultimate edition. A delicious solution for surveyors needing point cloud capabilities. Why should you pay for features that you don’t use? With MicroSurvey CAD 2010 you’re able to choose from four software packages: Basic, Standard, Premium and our all-new Ultimate edition. A solution
