Friday, June 12th, 2009
Paying people to protect forests can be an effective way to tackle deforestation and climate change but only if there is good governance of natural resources, claims this study funded by Norway’s Government. IIED, the World Resources Institute and the Center for International Forestry Research looked at existing efforts to pay people in developing nations
Friday, June 5th, 2009
1st meeting of the European Network on Soil Awareness (ENSA) will take place in Osnabrück, Germany from 27-29 September 2009.
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Rutherford County, Tennessee, recently awarded a 5-year geospatial services contract to Fugro EarthData, Inc. Under this open-ended contract, Fugro EarthData will provide updated orthoimagery, planimetric, and topographic mapping services to the county. Additional services may include oblique imagery, land use/land cover mapping, and emergency response mapping.
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Underlining its commitment to the mounting business and energy conservation goals of its clients and communities, Oltmans Construction Co. of Whittier, CA announces the formation of the “Oltmans High Performance Building Program” and the completion of three major projects being submitted for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
The Closing date for submission of Abstracts and/or full Papers for the 2009 Symposium on the Gold Coast commencing on 1st December is 17 July, 2009.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
GMES/Kopernikus (Global Monitoring for Environment and Secutiry) Governance Workshop – May 11, 2009 Brussels,
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) data for Paterson North, Western Australia will be released on 17 April 2009. These data were collected with line spacings of one, two and six kilometres. AEM data were acquired over exposures of the eastern Pillbara Block and Hamersley Basin, northern most Rudall Complex, Yeneena Basin and Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic sediments of
Monday, March 30th, 2009
PR – “Build Live Tokyo,” a competition aimed at raising awareness of BIM (Building Information Modeling), was held February 25-27. Build Live is the Japanese version of the international BIM Storm event. Graphisoft Japan was part of the Skunk Works team, led by Maeda Corporation, which won the Grand prize.
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
PR – Penobscot Bay Media LLC (PenBay), a GIS solutions company, has collaborated with Skygone Inc., a GIS hosting and managed services firm, to help bring PenBay’s In-Vision Portal (IVP) to market. PenBay will deliver In-Vision Portal on Skygone’s Infrastructure On-Demand (IOD) framework, a flexible and cost-effective preconfigured hardware environment for robust GIS web applications.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
PR – Spectral Imaging, Ltd., a leading provider of Hyperspectral Imaging technology and solutions, announces the release of AisaEAGLET, a Hyperspectral Imaging airborne sensor specifically designed for small aircrafts and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). AisaEAGLET will be officially presented at the EARSEL Imaging Spectroscopy workshop in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 16-19 March 2009.
