Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
The central economic importance of the world’s natural assets is now firmly on the political radar as a result of an international assessment showcasing the enormous economic value of forests, freshwater, soils and coral reefs, as well as the social and economic costs of their loss, the head of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the release of its inaugural Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking. This unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure is based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Yesterday morning, before a select audience of senior infrastructure professionals from leading architectural, engineering, construction, and owner-operator organizations, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley and SVP Bhupinder Singh presented the company’s progress and plans for leveraging information modeling, both for increasingly integrated projects, and for operations of high-performing, intelligent infrastructure assets. Bentley Systems is the leading
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp has announced the availability of an application to assist its users in the management of NLPG (National Land and Property Gazetteer) data. Already deployed at several sites in the UK, the Cadcorp NLPG Data Loader is a simple but powerful application that takes Gazetteer data
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
For its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones, the Salzburg start-up Mobilizy took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010. Wikitude Drive also won the prize for the best application leveraging EGNOS, the European augmentation system that
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Members of the worldwide Esri user community are invited to tell their geographic information system (GIS) story and share their expertise at the 2011 Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). The deadline for abstract submissions is November 15, 2010. Learn More
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
CellGuide, the GNSS SNAP technology pioneer announced the availability of its patent-pending HiMap technology for precision urban positioning. HiMap is now being made commercially available for CellGuide’s ACLYS chip, ACLYS IP Core, and GPSense engine. HiMap is also available for licensing as an add-on to GNSS receiver manufacturers. Read More
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) is scheduled for July 5-8, 2011, at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Audience. GI_Forum focuses on an international audience that shares an interest in GIScience and Technology. This Call for Papers aims at researchers who design, develop and apply advanced methods and techniques of Geoinformatics to a broad range of application
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
REDD+ is highlighted as a new framework for reducing CO2 emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. REDD+ also is expected to contribute to biodiversity conservation and the improved livelihoods of local and indigenous communities. A REDD+ Ministerial Meeting will be held during COP10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This international workshop is organized to deepen discussion on REDD+ by
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
ESRI Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to the Centre for Topographic Information of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) for accelerating map production and boosting national mapping productivity using ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. NRCan developed a map generator application in 2008 that has increased production of Canadian topographic maps from one map per two
