Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
The Payload Module of the giant MetOp-B weather satellite has been lowered into ESA’s largest vacuum chamber. ESTEC Test Centre engineers will be subjecting it to prolonged space conditions – their latest assignment in a busy year. Read More
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Today, one of the most diverse meetings ever assembled to address Marcellus Shale gas extraction concerns is being convened by the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities (CHEC) of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health and the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. The goals of this meeting are to openly discuss the impacts
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Leica Geosystems will hold their Annual Airborne Sensor User Conference in Orlando, FL October 25th – 27th, 2010. This year’s user conference will provide opportunities to learn more about the newest releases and configurations of Leica Geosystems Airborne Sensor products. In addition to user’s presentations, the conference will include a special bonus day of workshops
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Garmin Ltd. announced the completion today of the change of place of incorporation of the ultimate parent company of the Garmin group from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland (the “Redomestication”). Pursuant to the Redomestication, each outstanding common share of Garmin Ltd., a Cayman Islands company (“Garmin Cayman”), was exchanged for one share of a newly-formed Swiss
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, today announced the expansion of its insurance risk management suite of products with the introduction of its Web-based risk assessment portal. This new portal includes highly accurate and reliable underwriting and accumulation toolkits that provide users in the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, and Hungary
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Cisco announced the signing of a strategic Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Living PlanIT, a leading urban technology company that enables intelligent sustainable urban development and operations. The LOI sees the expanded collaboration of two visionary companies with complementary skills, capabilities, technologies, and solutions to create smart, sustainable communities of the future. The strategic collaboration
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
IGN is currently finalizing an offer that will allow any publisher or developer who wishes to incorporate within its own consumer applications for mobile phones smart cards and pictures of the Geoportal (these applications are typically downloaded by consumers through a store online application online). This offer is an operation of data service for private
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Student architects are discovering inspiring new ways to perform in teams, even across great distances using the Internet as a virtual design studio. Forty college students from North America recently demonstrated the power of long-distance collaborative design using GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD to co-design fictional projects such as visitor centers for Alcatraz, monuments for Detroit, and facilities
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
This Envisat radar image acquired over the Gulf of Mexico on 22 June 2010 shows that the oil spill (outlined in white) has radiated all over the Gulf of Mexico basin and is also continuing to feed into the Loop Current (red arrow). Read More
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
GIT4NDM 2010 has become a very important meeting due to the series of disasters shaking the Asian Region in 2008. We are still haunted by the calamity of Tsunami of 2004. Indonesia keeps on reeling under numerous earthquakes. The world scientific community has a great responsibility to enhance the effort on development of technology for
