Monday, October 1st, 2007
A Seminar and a Workshop on Development Cooperation – Geoinformation for Sustainable Development will take place, respectively, on October 11 and 12 in Brussels. The main aim of the events is to raise awareness regarding the important role which geo-information can play in supporting sustainable development in developing countries. The seminar will for example interrogate
Monday, October 1st, 2007
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 115 : Relevance of Geography Read More
Monday, October 1st, 2007
You’ll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter–built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies. Project Blackbox applies Sun’s trademark innovation, network computing infrastructure and HPC expertise to engineer out complexity and
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The Comission on Urban Planning and the City of Kotka warmly invite you to the seminar in Kotka, Finland 3rd – 6th October 2007. The seminar is the general meeting and the second seminar in the year 2007 arranged by the Union of Baltic Cities and its Comission on Urban Planning.
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
ESA’s Member States participating in the GMES Programme approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Programme. Oversubscription of the programme by the ESA Council at ministerial level in 2005 was confirmed, with oversubscription to phase 2 of 116%, giving a total amount of €500 million. This additional contribution to the
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Mira Geoscience, a leading provider of solutions for the Mining Industry, will provide its clients use of 3D PDF documents to reduce uncertainty and risk when communicating complex earth models. Mira intends to provide a new pathway for viewing models using PDF3D, giving its application users enhanced and innovative workflow methods to collaborate among technical
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR), Spain, have developed a microchip that improves night vision for drivers. The system complements the illumination of the car and will alert drivers to obstacles on the road, the scientists explain. The device was invented in the framework of the EU-funded DRIVSCO (Learning to emulate perception action cycles
Friday, September 28th, 2007
SCANEX R&D Center announced the start of stereo images reception from Indian IRS-P5 Cartosat-1 satellite by its own stations in Russia. Under the license agreement, signed between SCANEX and ANTRIX, the first stereo pairs of the Russian territory were successfully acquired from the CartoSat-1 satellite at UniSCan ground station, installed in Samara. The received images
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Autodesk, Inc. will hold a two-day executive forum on October 4-5 in conjunction with the Melting Ice: A Hot Topic — Envisioning Change art exhibit, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Natural World Museum (NWM) at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium. The forum will bring business, technology and
Friday, September 28th, 2007
In its ongoing quest to equip the global water industry with the world’s most powerful and comprehensive geospatial infrastructure modeling and design solutions, MWH Soft, a leading global provider of environmental and water resources applications software, today announced the worldwide availability of the new InfoWater Executive Suite for power ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA) users. It’s
