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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Viet Nam Project Makes It Pay To Go Green

Viet Nam will extend payments for ecosystem services throughout the country following the success of a two-year pilot project. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai announced the decision at an international workshop to discuss Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), held in Da Lat, the Central Highlands, yesterday. Southeast Asian and Chinese governmental officials and private-sector

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

BMKG Warns Harmful Acid Rains in Indonesia

Contrary to the clean look in rainwater pouring the country’s land, the weather agency finds most of the  rainwater contains harmful pollutions that are feared to harm environment and affect human health.The weather agency categorized the polluted rainwater as acid rains with acidity scale having gone down the tolerable level of 5.6.A report by the

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Clean Energy Portal Now Online

The portal — which was recently updated to even better meet client needs — informs Canadians and non-Canadians alike about Canada’s clean energy and climate change expertise, as well as our innovative clean energy industry. With the rapidly growing and highly technical clean energy industry delivering climate change solutions worldwide, the need for this resource

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Faster, More Compelling Models, Renderings, and Animations of Point Clouds

Leica Geosystems announces Leica CloudWorx-VR for 3ds Max, 3ds Max design, and Maya. These plug-ins provide a convenient way for professionals to efficiently create more photorealistic and compelling models, renderings, and animations based on rich, High-Definition Survey data of sites and structures as collected by 3D laser scanners. The powerful, new plug-in was developed by

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

CartoPac Field Solutions Expands its Nationwide Distribution Channel

CartoPac Field Solutions announced that Electronic Data Solutions (Elecdata) of Jerome, Idaho is now a CartoPac Authorized Business Partner.  Elecdata will market, sell, distribute, integrate and support the full suite of CartoPac mobile field data collection and asset management solutions for use in natural resource management, federal agencies, state and local municipalities and utilities, oil

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

CADmeleon Calls on Government to Address Existing Building Stock to Meet Long-Term Carbon Reduction Targets

Bernard McKeown, managing director of energy consultancy CADmeleon, has called on the government to address existing building stock as a matter of urgency in order to meet its long term carbon reduction targets.   The UK faces an uphill struggle in order to meet its self-imposed carbon targets unless it tackles the efficiency of existing

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Geoimage Has a New Website

Geoimage is pleased to unveil our new and improved website. The new website provides extensive information on not only our products and services, but also contains a wealth of information on the current commercial optical and radar satellites and how GIS and remote sensing assists industries such as mining and exploration, agriculture, environmental management and

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

GEOIMAGE Expands GeoSpatial Solutions Team

To support the growing demand for value added services and derived image products, Geoimage is pleased to announce that Alisa Eustace has been appointed as Senior GeoSpatial Analyst.  Alisa comes to us from the Department of Environment and Resource Management’s Remote Sensing Centre. Alisa has expertise in developing remote sensing and GeoSpatial products to support

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Onset Announces Expanded Measurement Options for HOBO Data Loggers

Onset announced that it has broadened its offerings for energy and environmental monitoring by expanding the range of measurement options for its line of HOBO U12 data loggers. Specifically, multi-channel versions of HOBO U12 data loggers can now measure and record kilowatts, air velocity, gauge pressure, differential pressure, DC current and other energy and environmental

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Partnership Unveils SAP Gateway for Smart Meter at New Centre of Excellence

UK technology company Remote Energy Monitoring Ltd and its systemsdevelopment partner Infotech Enterprises Ltd have unveiled a new interface between SAP’sAdvanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and REM’s Smart Meter Operations Suite (SMOS).The announcement came at the opening of a new demonstration centre at Infotech’s offices inLondon, where the REM meter can be put through its paces