Thursday, August 5th, 2010
EDINA has formed a partnership with the Scottish Government to develop a pilot discovery metadata service as a key component of a Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure. This pilot addresses the initial fulfilment of obligations under the INSPIRE regulations. The discovery service will be built using Geonetwork opensource software, enabling the creation and discovery of GEMINI2
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
The analysis of spatial patterns of health and disease has been greatly enhanced by recent advances in geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (RS), global positioning systems (GPS) and spatial statistics. The Department has an active research programme that uses GIS and spatial analysis in epidemiological research. Departmental staff also coordinate the Schools GIS facilities
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) can provide reliable positioning information under optimum conditions, where at least four satellites can be accessed with sufficient quality. In critical situations, for example, urban canyons or indoor, due to blocking of satellites by buildings and severe multipath effects, the GNSS performance can be decreased substantially. To overcome this limitation,
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
PHYSORG – The U.S. was one of the fastest-growing wind power markets in the world in 2009, second only to China, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read More
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Esri’s ArcGIS 10 technology provides new capabilities to quickly access, visualize, process, analyze, and exploit all forms of imagery. To familiarize users with these tools, Esri will host the free online seminar, Visualizing and Analyzing Imagery in ArcGIS 10, later this month. The seminar will air live at www.esri.com/lts on Thursday, August 12, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.,
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
This agreement represents a major step towards the grant of the first license ever issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) for a commercial-scale wave power project in the US. The SA supports the responsible, phased development by OPT of a 10-PowerBuoy(R), 1.5 megawatt capacity wave energy station in a manner that protects ocean
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
The fourth call for proposals under the Seventh Framework Programme’s space theme was published on 20 July 2010. The deadline of this call is 25 November 2010 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). The objective of the FP7 space work programme is to support a European Space Policy focussing on applications such as GMES ,
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is committed to joining IUFRO and other key organisations worldwide to ensure that forests are managed sustainably for current and future generations. APN scientific research and capacity development activities in response to the challenges in the forestry sector under the broad umbrella of global environmental change will
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Pitney Bowes Business Insight today introduced the Geosk™ Platform, the geospatial industry’s first location-based Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering. The Geosk Platform boasts the most comprehensive geospatial data catalogue and delivers it via an easy-to-use, cloud-based portal that lets customers pay as they go. With the Geosk Platform, customers can immediately access and integrate the most current
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
The National Geographic Society has signed a nonprofit site license (NSL) agreement with Esri that allows expansion of the geographic information system (GIS) user base within the society and improves public access to geographic data. The NSL gives the National Geographic Society unlimited deployments of ArcGIS software, thereby providing greater support of the society’s goal of
