Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Vue 9 Infinite and Vue 9 xStream offer CG professionals the premiere solution for creating exceptionally rich and realistic Digital Nature environments with seamless integration into any production workflow. While Vue Infinite is a standalone application, Vue xStream operates seamlessly inside of 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave, Cinema4D and Softimage. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Deforestation and forest degradation, caused by agricultural expansion, logging, and other human activities, contribute around 17 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is a mechanism aimed at creating a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Aerial mapping specialist Bluesky has signed up to the ESRI (UK) Partners and Alliance Programme as a Data Partner. Bringing together one of the UK’s leading aerial survey and derived data companies with the largest pool of GIS expertise in the UK the partnership between Bluesky and ESRI (UK) will maximise the potential of each
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, today announced a co-marketing agreement with Visioglobe®, granting NN4D the rights to distribute Visioglobe’s 3D rendering software development kit (SDK), VisioDevKit. The VisioDevKit allows developers globally to easily create or enhance existing applications with
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Next week the directors of geosciences institutes from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico will have met in IBGE to plan, implement and continue the activities of the Executive Work Group of the Permanent Committee on Geospatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas (CP-IDEA), presided over by Brazil. One of the purposes of the meeting is
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The Norwegian Ambassador HE Mr. Thor Gislesen and the Director General of ICIMOD Dr Andreas Schild signed 30 November an agreement relating to cooperation between Norway and ICIMOD on the impact of climate change on the melting of snow and ice in the Himalayas.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
A recently launched website aims to provide useful information to readers interested in self-sufficiency and sustainable living. The site, www.SustainableLiving.co.uk, advocates a “step-by-step” approach to sustainability and presents information intended to be accessible for people who have limited time and resources to devote to their environmental concerns. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
OpenRouteService.org provides a location-based POI search that is implementing the OpenGIS Location Service Directory Specification (OpenLS) already since 2008. This has now been extended from European to Global coverage using the free data from OpenStreetMap. Due to the rich and fast growing data of OpenStreetMap now more than 10 Million objects of a broad set
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
NovAtel Inc. was presented last Friday with the 2010 Alberta Export Award for Advancing Technologies, an award which recognizes companies who “have effectively harnessed the powers of intellectual property and value-added know-how”. The award was given out as part of the Alberta Export Awards competition, which celebrates excellence and innovative approaches to exporting by Alberta-based
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Hemisphere GPS and CLAAS Agrosystems launched eDriveX in Europe under the CLAAS brand, GPS Pilot. CLAAS Agrosystems, a company belonging to the global CLAAS Group agricultural equipment manufacturer, is offering GPS Pilot as a part of their precision automated steering solution that also includes the Outback S3™ guidance terminal and BaseLineX™ GPS base station. The new system,
