Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Last Friday in Nagoya, Japan, policymakers convened from around the world concluded the tenth Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Although biodiversity conservation has been widely-touted as a REDD “co-benefit,” efforts to link up aid from developed countries under the biodiversity convention and a REDD mechanism under the
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The Australian Government has approved more than $241 million in Caring for our Country funding to protect the Australian landscape and help ensure our farmlands remain viable into the future. The funding includes: $181 million in base level funding for 56 regional natural resource management organisations around Australia more than $60 million for 168 competitive open
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Released today, on behalf of the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council, Australia’s Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2010–2030 sets 10 targets to measure the nation’s progress in protecting our natural environment. Read More
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure – GSDI 12 World Conference took place in Singapore from 19 to 22 October 2010. The partners organizing this conference included the GSDI Association, the Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia & the Pacific (PCGIAP) and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). “Governments at all levels in all countries depend on
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Design professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction industries will be able to save time, improve collaboration and reduce review cycles using the industry’s first web-ready large-format printing solution – available today. The new HP ePrint & Share and HP Designjet T2300 eMultifunction Printer (eMFP) solution allows design teams to easily access, share and print large-format project files
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Fugro NPA motionmap products are unique off-the-shelf, multi-client, geographic datasets revealing millimetric ground and structure motion trends. motionmap datasets can be utilised within a wide range of market sectors for a variety of applications, including: Engineering – Utilise within the complete life cycle of an engineering project. Input into site selection processes, assess stability impacts of
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Calgary’s downtown is dense with 20 and 30-story buildings, holding 50% of all Calgary jobs. Parking is expensive, upwards of $20 per day. A new planning concept, the downtown PRT circulator, offers many unique benefits: enhances the existing LRT system re-connects a city split by railroad tracks stretches downtown to encompass the Eau Claire area
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
GeoIndex datasets are made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Services (WMS). View in compatible software or in portal-style websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS services. These web services allow you to bring the GeoIndex data layers into your own mapping software (GIS systems etc) to be viewed and compared alongside your own
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Inkaba yeAfrica is a collaborative German-South African Earth Science initiative that is both multidisciplinary and intercultural, dovetailing next-generation science and technology with a strong training and capacity-building component. With over 100 scientific contributions, more than half of them from students and young researchers from both countries, this workshop reflects the full scope of modern geoscience
Monday, November 1st, 2010
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the release of version 8 of GeoExpress® image compression software at the GEOINT 2010 Symposium in New Orleans this week. GeoExpress 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and manipulate satellite and aerial imagery, introduces
