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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Guide – Sustainability of Construction Materials

Until recently, much of the development of building materials has predominantly focused on producing cheaper, stronger and more durable construction materials. More recently attention has been given to the environmental issues in manufacturing, using, disposing and recycling of construction materials. Sustainability of construction materials brings together a wealth of recent research on the subject.The first

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

EU FLEGT Facility is Seeking a Procurement Expert

The European Forest Institute (EFI) is an international organization with 21 European member countries, and 126 associate member institutions. EFI is hosting and managing the EU FLEGT Facility, which has the role of supporting the implementation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. The Facility is funded by the European Commission with co‐funding from the Governments

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Trimble Unveils State-of-the-Art Mobile Spatial Imaging System

Trimble introduced today the Trimble® MX8 Mobile Spatial Imaging System, an advanced mobile data capture system that combines imaging and laser scanning capabilities to measure objects in 3D to produce 3D, 4D and 5D data sets for spatial imaging projects. The new Trimble MX8 Mobile Spatial Imaging System expands the scope of services that surveyors,

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

ITT Announces ENVI tools for ArcGIS for Desktop and Server

“One of our key goals with ArcGIS 10 was to make imagery core to GIS not only by providing easy access to tools for interpreting and processing imagery within ArcGIS, but also by giving our partners an improved platform for integrating advanced image analysis functionality into today’s GIS workflows, “said Jack Dangermond, president of Esri.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

PCI Geomatics Releases Upgrade to Feature Extraction Software

The latest version of FeatureObjeX 1.0.4 includes linear feature extraction which allows users to extract centerlines of polygonal markup using a toolbar command.  It also includes shape labeling whereby users can create and edit labels and add text to shape layers. Read More

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

The Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain as an Example of Success in Europe

Spanish geographic data production is mainly oriented to fulfil the management needsof good governance. However, we can divide it into three levels of geographic dataproducers in Spain:● National Level: Government of Spain.The National Government is composed of 17 Ministries. Many of them are geographicinformation producers (Infrastructures and Transports (IGN-E (National MappingAgency), CNIG-E (National Centre of

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

iSpy: EO Apps for Your Smart Phone

EO apps seems to fall into 3 categories: satellite tracking, spatially enabled imaging and GPS. Do your own weather forecasting with met sat data on your phone.You can pretend to be satellite and get a satellite real-time view of your position.Get Accumaps DTM on your phone. Read More

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Nokia Divests MetaCarta Inc. While Retaining Geographic Intelligence Technology

Nokia announced today that it has divested MetaCarta Inc. to Qbase Holdings LLC, a privately held US based company. Nokia will retain MetaCarta’s geographic intelligence technology, which it is incorporating in its local search and other services. MetaCarta serves primarily government as well as oil and gas customers. It was acquired by Nokia in April

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

New SATELLINE-EASy

SATELLINE-EASy is a new transceiver radio modem from SATEL. It provides compact and flexible solution for many different long-range applications like land surveying. SATELLINE-EASy is equipped with a wide 70 MHz tuning range; end-user can select the operation frequency within the whole range 403…473 MHz. Only one version in the stock and all the channels

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

GMES Masters – Combine Dynamic Earth Observation with Satellite Navigation

T-Systems and the European Space Agency award the most promising business idea for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)The European Earth observation programme GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is driven by the requirements of sustainable development and the need to improve the monitoring of the European and global environment, especially in view