Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The REDD+ Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE) is a tool for classifying and prioritizing potential REDD+ sub-national activities and for assessing critical constraints to project development, especially those associated with the legal, political, and institutional framework for carbon finance. The ROSE tool was developed and refined during 2009 in the course of conducting case studies in
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
With the economic growth and technological advancement, to build transport network infrastructure is an important issue and development goal in developing countries. In Taiwan, to facilitate citizens to gain complete and accurate traffic information in real time, the government actively planned, developed and constructed the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). However, the city/county governments and related
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc.today announced the availability of Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2011, a new software suite for plant designers who need powerful plant design and whole-project review capabilities in a single integrated package. Autodesk Plant Design Suite combines AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD P&ID 2011, AutoCAD Plant 3D 2011, and Autodesk Navisworks 2011 software to provide a powerful
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
More than 150 organizations were selected from approximately 300,000 to receive a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award in a special ceremony today at the 30th Annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). The winning organizations received this honor for their vision, leadership, hard work, and innovative use of Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. “We
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
BroadMap is proud to announce the launching of their new website. BroadMap, a leading provider of geospatial solutions, is an emerging, innovative, strategic and results-oriented full-service GIS company specializing in providing government, non-profit and commercial business partners with custom-fit, turnkey geospatial solutions. BroadMap’s new website represents a complete redesign of the user interface in order
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
In coordination with Digital Map Products (DMP), developers can now easily overlay over 100 million US parcels to more easily identify boundaries between properties. Using a simple, native method in Bing Maps and DMP’s ParcelStream API with just 7 lines of code (yes, SEVEN) you can tap into this wonderful trove of parcel information. So,
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
There have been few integrated assessments of the economic, social and environmental benefits of Global Earth Observation. In an effort to address these issues, the European Commission sponsored project “Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging” (GEOBENE) developed methodologies and analytical tools to assess the societal benefit areas of GEO in the
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment (MABA) is a project of Sky Island Alliance (SIA), a non-profit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The project, principally sponsored by a grant from the French-based Veolia Environment Foundation http://www.fondation.veolia.com/en/ is an ambitious effort to document the biodiversity and to preserve these biologically rich environments of the Sky
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Palm Beach (Fla.) County Fire Rescue (PBCFR) has successfully deployed Intergraph® public safety and security incident management software to advance its mission to save lives and protect property in Florida’s largest county.PBCFR has 49 fire stations and provides dispatch services to an additional 22 municipal stations throughout Palm Beach County to serve the county’s 1.2
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Sales and investment in the voluntary carbon market have stagnated in the last six months under the impact of Federal Government policy confusion, according to the latest update of an industry guide co-produced by RMIT University. Developed by Global Sustainability at RMIT and EPA Victoria, the Carbon Offset Guide is the most comprehensive and independent
