Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Hearing at first hand about a young engineer’s life in the marine industry can often be a vital first step in helping a school student take the decision to following in his or her footsteps. James Goodship, who is a 23-year old graduate engineer now working at VT Shipbuilding in Portsmouth Naval Base, set out
Monday, September 17th, 2007
CoastLearn is a distance vocational training package on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) that makes extensive use of the electronic media. This self-learning tool targets primarily coastal managers and planners working at local, sub-national, and national levels. The secondary target groups are university students and NGOs. Read More
Monday, September 17th, 2007
SCANEX R&D – By mid 2007, 12 satellites have been launched with the Earth observation instruments for different purposes (Table 1.) China and Japan are the leaders (2 satellites each) in the number of Earth remote sensing satellites launched. India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Russia and Germany launched one satellite each.
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Intermap Technologies Corp. today announced that it has been awarded a new $2.2 million radar mapping contract. Under the agreement, the Company will collect and deliver 3D digital elevation models (DEMs) and orthorectified radar images (ORIs) utilizing Intermap’s interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) mapping technology. Data will be collected and delivered in 2007. Read More
Monday, September 17th, 2007
A ten-day-training on Application of GIS for Transportation ended in Dar es Salaam yesterday with a note of congratulations to the Tanzania Transportation Technology Transfer (TanT2) Centre and Tanzania Roads Agency (TANROADS) for organizing it. Participants from Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Tanzania expressed their satisfaction in an interview saying it made them understand the geographic information
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
The importance of cooperation at all levels was emphasised by EU Justice, Freedom and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini at the inaugural meeting of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF). ESRIF is intended to foster a public-private dialogue on security research by bringing together all relevant stakeholders. Together, forum participants will make proposals for
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
An EU project has developed technologies to take on the twin challenges of reducing the fuel consumed and CO2 emitted by marine diesel engines. Although shipping is considered the most environmentally friendly form of transportation, the air emissions from ships’ exhausts still worry environmentalists and marine engineers alike. Professor Nikolaos Kyrtatos, the coordinator of a
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
IBM, has named ESRI a recipient of its 2007 Public Sector Top Star Award for consistently demonstrating the “Best of the Best” business partner qualities. ESRI was recognized for forging a successful partnership with IBM, as well as building success in the marketplace, at IBM’s PartnerWorld 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri. “IBM and ESRI are
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
An announcement from The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) describes the publication of the OpenGIS Transducer Markup Language (TML) Implementation Specification as an approved OpenGIS Publicly Available Standard. Sensor systems “have two basic parts: a sensing element and a transducer that converts energy from one form to another form (usually an electric signal) that can be
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Lenticular printing-customers like it because it grabs attention, increases product recognition and boosts sales. xpedx introduces Opticular(TM) for digital special effects, a production package for lenticular printing that gives print and creative professionals an easy and inexpensive way to produce special effects such as zoom, flip, 3D imaging, motion and morph. Read More
