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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

SeaZone Assists Round 3 Offshore Wind Developer

Detailed marine mapping from SeaZone is helping Forewind Ltd plan and deliver its offshore wind energy project in the North Sea. Using HydroSpatial, SeaZone’s digital marine map, Forewind will undertake a comprehensive assessment of the maritime area to help identify potential sites for offshore wind development after successfully winning the exclusive zone development agreement for

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

RapidEye Adds Panaxx Corporation to Its Asian Distribution Network

RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that Panaxx Corporation will be its distributor in Japan. Panaxx is the fourteenth company to join RapidEye’s quickly- growing worldwide distribution network. Learn More

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Ingenieurgruppe Flösser GmbH Relies on HP Line Accuracy

HP today announced that Ingenieurgruppe Flösser GmbH is using its HP Designjet 4520 HD-MFP to deliver highly accurate printouts of architectural plans, to visualise and analyse its customers’ architectural designs. Based in Bad Säckingen, Germany, architectural engineering specialist, Ingenieurgruppe Flösser GmbH, is employed to assist customers with structural calculations during a building’s design process, to

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Site Specific Land Management; General Concepts and Applications

To meet the growing need of people for increasing farm income and to minimize the negative environmental impact of today’s farm practices, a new farming concept has been evolved where inputs are fine tuned and optimized according to the local field variability such that yield increment is achieved with a minimum harm to the local

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, launched the Atlas on 4th May 2010 in Brussels at the European Parliament at the inauguration of an exhibition on the work of the Commission’s Joint Research Centre . The 144 pages atlas is the result of a three-year collaborative project with partners from northern EU

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Abu Dhabi Urban Planning GIS Interactive

The GIS Section is committed to providing the Urban Planning Council’s planning and development staff with analysis and products to support the planning process by using the most recent and accurate data available.  The section plays an active role in forming linkages and standards with external agencies to ensure the best data sources are available

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Consequences of the International Forest Regime

The fonaso Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme invites applications on questions relating to national consequences and effects of international forest policy and the international forest regime. Under the theme “The international forest regime as driver for sustainable national forest policies” applicants are invited to submit relevant research proposals until 1 October 2010 (fonaso call 2.6

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Ice-breakers are Navigated by Satellite Images

Near real-time commercial monitoring of the Northern Sea Route and the freezing seas of Russia is initiated in behalf of the ice-breaking operations of the FSUE Atomflot. A contract on radar satellite imagery of the ice situation ordered by the FSUE Atomflot in 2010 has been carried out by ScanEx RDC. A network of 4

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

ScanEx TaskFlow Software for RS Data Flow Processing Automation

ScanEx specialists released a new version of ScanEx TaskFlow® application. It is intended for automation of any data flow processing, including RS data. The application enables to create and perform tasks of step-by-step batch processing of large data volumes using a random set of console programs. Execution of such a task allows to user to

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions: more than half way to the ’20 % target by 2020

The European Union’s greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory report, compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA), shows that emissions have not only continued their downward trend in 2008, but have also picked up pace. The EU-27’s emissions stood 11.3 % below their 1990 levels, while EU-15 achieved a reduction of 6.9 % compared to Kyoto base-year