Friday, October 8th, 2010
The European Green Capital Conference, which will be held on 20-22 October, will gather decision makers from ambitious European cities and interested cities from around the world who wish to discuss the challenges facing urban sustainability in both a European and global context. The Conference is being held in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Stockholm
Friday, October 8th, 2010
e-on software, the leader in Digital Nature solutions today announced the immediate availability of a free Open Beta of Carbon Scatter, the company’s instancing plugin for the mental ray™ and V-Ray™ renderers for 3DS Max. Carbon Scatter is the most simple and straightforward solution for creating complex and detailed populations using the native instancing technologies of
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Highly detailed space imagery is actively applied for monitoring of construction activities of the sites related to the Sochi Olympic Games. Analysis of multi-temporal satellite data enables to assess the dynamics of erection of the Olympic buildings in different parts of the Sochi town. In all, there will be over 200 new installations constructed by
Friday, October 8th, 2010
The criteria for assessing contaminated land are going to be extended and made more comprehensive from next year. If you own or manage contaminated land, you need to read this article. Site assessments of confirmed and suspected contaminated land in NSW must follow the National Environment Protection Council (New South Wales) Act 1995 (the NEPC Act). This
Friday, October 8th, 2010
SARAL is a satellite that can be used to monitor the level of sea water. It is jointly developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French National Space Agency (CNES). The satellite will carry a Ka-band radar altimeter, AltiKa, and a data collection system, ARGOS. ISRO is responsible for building as well
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Esri will host a free DevGeo event Thursday afternoon, November 4, 2010, in Santa Clara, California, at the Network Meeting Center. DevGeo Silicon Valley is for developers who want to add dynamic mapping capabilities to their Web and mobile applications.Sessions ar e designed to help software developers who work with JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight, iOS, or Windows
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world’s first and only integrated middleware machine—a combined hardware and software offering designed to revolutionize datacenter consolidation. Read More
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Dotted Eyes, the market leading GeoData and information software specialist, today announces the deployment of its Contractor Portal data sharing system by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC). Completed on time and on budget, the system is already meeting the Council’s need for a low-cost solution to providing automated data access to contractors, partners and internal
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
1Spatial, including other consortium members; RSW Geomatics and Rob Walker Consultancy, has just completed a project for the Joint Research Council (JRC) on Schema Transformation Network Services for INSPIRE. The project involved a review of the current tools and standards available to the community to achieve schema transformation into INSPIRE compliant data structures. The primary
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
AeroGRID has announced the availability of wide area aerial photography of South Africa. The imagery, which comprises over 400,000km² of orthophoto coverage includes high resolution photos of Cape Town, is being supplied by Geosense a core AeroGRID partner. “Following our recent agreement with Ramani (Nairobi) to distribute their Kenyan photography, this addition of extensive South African
