Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
RapidEye announced today that it is working in cooperation with SST Software to integrate its precision farming maps into SST’s information management products and services. RapidEye’s five satellites open new avenues in precision agriculture. Frequent revisit capacity, five meter pixel size, and five spectral bands allow for timely in-season monitoring of crop growth and optimal fertilizer management.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
The Garda Mapping Section surveys crime scenes and prepares scaled drawings and maps for investigative and judicial purposes throughout Ireland. Additionally the section provides administrative maps for operational purposes and specific security maps for major events emergency planning and VIP visits. To improve the simplicity of access to the information held within the maps, which is
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The Directive on Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC, RED) sets ambitious targets for all Member States. Under the RED the EU should reach by 2020 a 20% share of energy from renewable sources and a 10% share of renewable energy specifically in the transport sector. Renewable energy from biofuels, including those imported into the EU, should
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
Part of the top issue “renewable energies” is the search for new locations where solar panels using photovoltaics technology or solar thermal power will be efficient. Municipalities, energy suppliers, investors and citizens need a planning instrument that visualizes the solar potential of roof areas taking into account exposition, slope and shadowing. The 3D roof scape
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
There’s a broad demand for Germany’s know-how in bicycle policy and infrastructural planning. The German bicycle portal contains a lot of resources: more than 4000 news, publications, research results and good practice examples. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, the series “Cycling Expertise Files” contains German Bicycle Expertise in English
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics announces the upgrade of their developer tool GeoTranslate. GeoTranslate is available within GeoCore, Blue Marble’s all in one geospatial developer tool kit. GeoTranslate 5.1 is the latest vector translation and feature manipulation tool from Blue Marble Geographics. With this toolkit, developers can read and write many of today’s most popular GIS vector
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context. We’re still in beta, so please pardon any rough edges
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
In this global society, people are free to travel to all corners of the world regardless of whether they’re carrying an infectious disease. This freedom of movement can cause global health concerns such as the spread of infections and the risk of pandemics. Geospatial information systems (GIS) are currently being used to help scientists and
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Forestry Commission England has launched a free iPhone app to find your local woodland, download handy trail maps or learn about trees with an easy to use tree identifier. The award-winning app is available to download from iTunes from 25th April. Visitors can search for sites by event or activity, or find basic information such as
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Optech Incorporated is pleased to announce the latest addition to its innovative new line of multi-beam airborne imaging systems, the ALTM Pegasus HD500. Now available with 500-kHz capability, Pegasus maintains its leadership role as a benchmark of data collection efficiency and mapping productivity. The only turnkey mapping solution on the market to offer fully embedded
