Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
At the Council, the texts of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Programme Resolution and Programme Proposal were approved by all Member States, with Germany and Portugal voting yes ad referendum. This defines the scope and cost of the programme. In addition, 14 Member States confirmed their support for the programme itself, with the remaining Member
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The prestigious British Cartographic Society (BCS) Award was presented to The Highland Council at the 2010 awards ceremony held last week during the Society’s Annual Symposium at the Village Hotel and Conference Centre in Nottingham.The BCS has recognised innovative use of mapping at the recently held BCS Symposium entitled “Talking with Maps” that attracted over
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Viet Nam will extend payments for ecosystem services throughout the country following the success of a two-year pilot project. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai announced the decision at an international workshop to discuss Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), held in Da Lat, the Central Highlands, yesterday. Southeast Asian and Chinese governmental officials and private-sector
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Contrary to the clean look in rainwater pouring the country’s land, the weather agency finds most of the rainwater contains harmful pollutions that are feared to harm environment and affect human health.The weather agency categorized the polluted rainwater as acid rains with acidity scale having gone down the tolerable level of 5.6.A report by the
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The portal — which was recently updated to even better meet client needs — informs Canadians and non-Canadians alike about Canada’s clean energy and climate change expertise, as well as our innovative clean energy industry. With the rapidly growing and highly technical clean energy industry delivering climate change solutions worldwide, the need for this resource
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Leica Geosystems announces Leica CloudWorx-VR for 3ds Max, 3ds Max design, and Maya. These plug-ins provide a convenient way for professionals to efficiently create more photorealistic and compelling models, renderings, and animations based on rich, High-Definition Survey data of sites and structures as collected by 3D laser scanners. The powerful, new plug-in was developed by
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
CartoPac Field Solutions announced that Electronic Data Solutions (Elecdata) of Jerome, Idaho is now a CartoPac Authorized Business Partner. Elecdata will market, sell, distribute, integrate and support the full suite of CartoPac mobile field data collection and asset management solutions for use in natural resource management, federal agencies, state and local municipalities and utilities, oil
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Bernard McKeown, managing director of energy consultancy CADmeleon, has called on the government to address existing building stock as a matter of urgency in order to meet its long term carbon reduction targets. The UK faces an uphill struggle in order to meet its self-imposed carbon targets unless it tackles the efficiency of existing
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Geoimage is pleased to unveil our new and improved website. The new website provides extensive information on not only our products and services, but also contains a wealth of information on the current commercial optical and radar satellites and how GIS and remote sensing assists industries such as mining and exploration, agriculture, environmental management and
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
To support the growing demand for value added services and derived image products, Geoimage is pleased to announce that Alisa Eustace has been appointed as Senior GeoSpatial Analyst. Alisa comes to us from the Department of Environment and Resource Management’s Remote Sensing Centre. Alisa has expertise in developing remote sensing and GeoSpatial products to support
