Monday, November 8th, 2010
IBM announced its collaboration with POSCO ICT to develop South Korea’s first renewable energy management system for a smart grid. As part of South Korea’s national Smart Grid initiative to achieve the vision of “Low carbon, Green growth,” the intelligent renewable energy management system will be installed as a showcase at the Smart Grid Demonstration
Monday, November 8th, 2010
AECOM’s technical leadership has adopted the Building Information Modeling method as the global standard for technical delivery and is developing processes that will significantly increase its usage in delivering services to its clients. “BIM-based design and project implementation results in higher quality work, greater efficiency and lower costs to the client,” said Jim Walsh, AECOM chief
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Tekla and Autodesk work together to enable better compatibility between Tekla and Autodesk’s respective building information modeling (BIM) software platforms. As a first step, the companies have collaborated to introduce new features that allow for the exchange of structural data between Revit and Tekla software. Read More
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Mapping Solutions, LLC is proud to announce its newest product, MapperD, a low cost demographic report generator for MapInfo Professional 9.5 or newer. Reports are sold on a per report basis.You only pay for reports you actually need and generate, and not for data you may never use. Read More
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Technology is enabling architecture and interiors to be much better. Once you get into a space, it speaks to you in a different way than on drawings – even 3D drawings. So with computer-aided design you can invite your clients to look at images on a computer screen and create the feeling that they are actually walking
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World. GFIMS is a monitoring system hosted at the Department of Natural Resources (NRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This product derives from the
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
Fugro Multi Client Services has started the NL-DEF-3d multi-client survey in the Netherlands. This major multi-client 3D survey, is designed to provide modern 3D long offset seismic data to boost exploration in the Dutch D, E and F blocks of the North Sea. The survey is covering over 6,000 sq.km extending from the UK until
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
GAMMA organizes a new course on theory and practice of Interferometric Point Target Analysis (IPTA). The training course will last 3 ½ days, between the 22nd and the 25th of November 2010. To download the announcement and the application form (pdf format) click link below. Read More
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
DEFRA – EU Member States have to report annually a number of indicators for monitoring the implementation and use of their infrastructures for spatial information. The information provided includes a list of spatial data sets and services belonging to those infrastructures. Read More
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
Alberta set strict limits on how much water oil sands companies can remove from the Athabasca River, setting a high level of protection that is balanced with the needs of the community and industry. The goal is to ensure low impact to the river ecosystem, coupled with water conservation and innovation by water users. Alberta is
