Monday, June 14th, 2010
The dynamic nature of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill has been a challenge for a range of communities — from hotel operators to fishermen to local community leaders. And the American people have questions about the response to this crisis. Today, NOAA launches a new federal Web site meant to answer those questions with
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Based in the Centre for Marine and Coastal Policy Research this Master’s programme will provide the knowledge and skills for individuals to become involved in developing policy, implementing planning and managing marine and coastal environments. This course aims to develop a holistic understanding of marine systems integrating social, economic and natural sciences.
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Includes 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:200,000 scale topo maps for all of Germany from the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie). Read More
Monday, June 14th, 2010
The International and German versions are the first two of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule. Next up in the release queue are the Australian, US, and New Zealand versions. All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010. Read More
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. announced that the company’s Autodesk Seek web service is averaging more than 900,000 searches per month, while providing nearly 300,000 downloads of building product information and models to architects, engineers and other design professionals per month. This represents a year-over-year increase of over 165 percent. Read More
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. announced that DesignGroup has received an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for extending the use of building information modeling (BIM) to sustainable design, and for the application of a BIM process on more than 40 building projects to date, representing over 4.2-million square feet. The award further recognizes the firm’s efforts to promote BIM through presentations,
Monday, June 14th, 2010
URISA – The Association for GIS Professionals – is pleased to announce the Fifth Caribbean GIS Conference, taking place December 6-10, 2010 in Trinidad. The conference program is developed through a Call for Presentations which will be issued shortly. URISA is pleased to note that CARILEC, the Caribbean Electric Utility Service Corporation – an association
Monday, June 14th, 2010
In a first of its kind effort, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Engineering Services Office in Boulder City, NV, built a detailed, highly accurate, as-built model of Hoover Dam’s 75-year-old Monument Plaza using high-definition surveying technology from Leica Geosystems. The terrazzo floor is cracking and showing weather damage as are some of the bronze features on
Monday, June 14th, 2010
PCI Geomatics has returned from a business development mission to Brazil, expanding and promoting its geo-imaging software and solutions offerings to this marketplace. In addition to key meetings with stakeholders and customers, PCI Geomatics co-hosted two seminars with its reseller partner Threetek, one in Rio de Janeiro and a second with the Consulate General of
Monday, June 14th, 2010
ERDAS announces its Silver Sponsorship at the INSPIRE Conference, June 22-25, 2010 in Krakow, Poland. ERDAS is actively involved in the INSPIRE process and associated European projects, recently launching a new website (http://www.erdas.com/Solutions/eGovernance.aspx) and hosting a series of webinars to showcase the company’s support. ERDAS is notably engaging as a new INSPIRE Spatial Data Interest
