Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Developed by Ecole des Mines de Paris and GEFOSATwith the support of ADEME and Altener, COMFIE + Pleiades is a calculation software dynamic simulation of heat transfer in multizone buildings. COMFIE Pleiades +combines ease and power for analysis of thermal comfort, passive solar design projects and teaching. Read More
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
The building sector is being called upon to help fight climate change by achieving ambitious reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time incorporating other “green” considerations. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – which allows the impartial comparison of building designs based on measures such as global warming potential – is an essential
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe® Illustrator® and Geographic Imager® geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop®, is pleased to announce an updated version of PDF Maps, the popular geospatial PDF reader for Apple iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Learn More
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
It has always been possible to work with geospatial data in SQL Server using built-in geometric and trigonometric functions such as SIN(), COS(), and ACOS(). However, SQL Server 2008’s spatial data types made complex spatial queries a lot more accessible to those of us who don’t remember what a cosine actually is. In this article, I will
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Whether it’s in an industrial, office or home setting, until the world goes totally wireless, dealing with tangles of cords will be a reality of modern life. Designer Micah Maraia created a way to more quickly unravel the mess of cords in your life. Beginning with sketches, Maraia used SolidWorks software to produce 3D CAD
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
The GEBCO_08 Grid is now available as a Web Map Service(WMS), a means of accessing geo-referenced map images over the internet. These maps can be viewed in a web browser; incorporated in your own web application or displayed in various GIS/mapping packages.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
ERDAS announces the release of a new version of the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK, which allows software developers to enable rapid and efficient file handling in the applications they create by including robust support for selected wavelet compression formats and protocols. The ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK provides support for the visually-lossless ECW imagery format and the ECWP
Friday, March 11th, 2011
An atlas of Scotland’s seas – with visual representation of its competing uses, productivity and health – has been compiled for the first time. The Marine Atlas will inform key planning decisions in Scottish waters while providing everyone with an accessible and detailed insight into the geography and vast richness of Scotland’s seas.
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Geologists identify rocks mainly through identifying the minerals they contain. These might include the minerals which make up the majority of rocks we see at the Earth’s surface, such as quartz or feldspars. They could also be minerals which are more commonly associated with ore deposits, such as pyrite (fool’s gold), pyrrhotite or magnetite. Geologists
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The Soil Action of the Joint Research Centre would like to invite you to take part in a survey about a digital soil mapping tool, developed in collaboration with the DIGISOIL consortium. This new technology makes use of a number of geophysical techniques in order to produce detailed, geo-referenced digital maps of soil properties and
