Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
PR – Vaisala HUMICAP® Humidity and Temperature Transmitter Series HMT330 now offers several new features including a data logging option, Chinese as a new user interface language, the new generation Vaisala HUMICAP® 180 R sensor and a USB connection cable for computers. In addition, the HMT330 has a new display with a white background light
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
PR – DeKalb County in Georgia has embarked on a major modeling initiative, purchasing Wallingford Software’s water supply and distribution network modeling solution InfoWorks WS, urban drainage network modeling solution InfoWorks CS and asset management solution InfoNet. Senior Engineer, Nadine Maghsoudlou says: “We have separated the County into 35 sub-basins and as we collect data
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird today commented on the report provided by the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) titled “Getting to 2050: Canada’s Transition to a Low-emission Future”. “Our Government recognizes that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today and we have demonstrated leadership by taking
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
PR – The GeoBase Steering Committee and Natural Resources Canada are pleased to announce the launch of a new generation of satellite orthoimagery on the GeoBase website. The new SPOT 4 and 5 derived orthoimagery improves upon the resolution of the GeoBase Landsat 7 satellite orthoimagery. 5000 images will be acquired between 2005 and 2010.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
PR – Data acquired by the first commercial highresolution radar satellite TerraSAR-X is now operationally available: Infoterra GmbH, the owner of the exclusive commercial exploitation rights for this data, has announced its commercial sales operations to be up-and-running. Ever since the spacecraft delivered first impressive images a mere four days after the successful launch on
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
PR – Dassault Systèmes announced the early availability of SIMULIA SLM, a new product suite from its SIMULIA brand that will have a positive impact on the way that organizations perform and manage their simulation processes. The use of simulation has become an increasingly vital process in developing innovative products quickly. SIMULIA SLM accelerates the
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
PR – HKR Architects (HKR), the international architecture and design practice with offices in Dublin, London, Manchester, Belfast, Prague and Sarasota, has been ranked as Ireland’s number one architecture firm in Building Design magazine’s (BD) World Architecture 100 Survey and is now ranked number 18 in the UK. The BD World Architecture 100 Survey ranks
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
PR — ESRI invites developers to share their creativity and expertise with the geographic information system (GIS) developer community by submitting original code samples to the second annual ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at www.esri.com/codechallenge. Participating developers will have an opportunity to review and vote for the top three entries based on creativity, applicability, and relevance of
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
PR – GGP Systems has come up with an innovation to ensure that public service information is always up to date. The Croydon-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) company has developed the live synchronisation software to link the latest service data to ‘front office’ systems using maps to pinpoint locations. The new product accesses the information
Monday, January 14th, 2008
PR – Three Canadian graduate forestry students have discovered new insights that could lead to improvements and cost savings in future forest management efforts across Canada. The discoveries of Sarah Weber of the University of British Columbia (UBC), Ian Curran of the University of Alberta (U of A), and Jeanne Moore of the University of
