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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

NAVTEQ Selected by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) for the Advancement of Technology in the Transportation System

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announces that the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has selected NAVTEQ® map data to support geospatial information and services for the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS). Read

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

NAVTEQ Features Innovative Solutions and New Data Collection Tools at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, will feature a variety of customer demonstrations at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA (booth #1501), July 12-16, 2010.  NAVTEQ customers will demonstrate how their enterprise applications, powered by NAVTEQ

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Environmental Business Cluster and Autodesk Partner to Support Clean Technology

EBC is an award-winning clean tech incubator in Silicon Valley that provides commercialization support and facilities for emerging clean energy and environmental technology companies. The Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program provides Digital Prototyping software to clean technology companies to enable them to digitally design, visualize and simulate the real-world performance of products before they are built.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Ashtech MobileMapper 100 and MobileMapper 6 Support ArcPad 10

Ashtech today announced that its new MobileMapper® 100 handheld GNSS receiver and its MobileMapper 6 handheld GPS receiver support ArcPad® 10, ESRI®’s newest mobile software. As an Authorized ESRI Business Partner, Ashtech is offering an exclusive MobileMapper and ArcPad 10 bundle in the U.S. market. The combined power of the new ArcPad 10 software and

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre Receives Making a Difference Award from Esri

In Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), e-government is flourishing as a way to conduct business, with many online government services available via the Abu Dhabi Government portal. Government agencies also share data related to the emirate’s governmental and commercial projects and enterprises. Geospatial data and geographic information system (GIS) technology play an important

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

GE Unveils Nucleus — The Future of Home Energy Management

GE today unveiled Nucleus™, an affordable, innovative communication and data storage device that provides consumers with secure information about their household electricity use and costs so they can make more informed choices about how and when to use power. GE’s Nucleus brings the promise of the smart grid into consumers’ homes. As utilities deploy smart

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Partnership Helps Nunavut Communities Adapt to Climate Change

To help communities adapt to these changes, Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan’s) Climate Change Geoscience program — in partnership with the Government of Nunavut, the Canadian Institute of Planners and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada — is working to build climate change planning capacity at local, regional and territorial levels through the Nunavut Climate Change Partnership. The partnership is currently

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Guide – Sustainability of Construction Materials

Until recently, much of the development of building materials has predominantly focused on producing cheaper, stronger and more durable construction materials. More recently attention has been given to the environmental issues in manufacturing, using, disposing and recycling of construction materials. Sustainability of construction materials brings together a wealth of recent research on the subject.The first

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

EU FLEGT Facility is Seeking a Procurement Expert

The European Forest Institute (EFI) is an international organization with 21 European member countries, and 126 associate member institutions. EFI is hosting and managing the EU FLEGT Facility, which has the role of supporting the implementation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. The Facility is funded by the European Commission with co‐funding from the Governments

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Trimble Unveils State-of-the-Art Mobile Spatial Imaging System

Trimble introduced today the Trimble® MX8 Mobile Spatial Imaging System, an advanced mobile data capture system that combines imaging and laser scanning capabilities to measure objects in 3D to produce 3D, 4D and 5D data sets for spatial imaging projects. The new Trimble MX8 Mobile Spatial Imaging System expands the scope of services that surveyors,