Friday, July 8th, 2011
Professor Chris Rizos, head of the University of NSW School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems (SSIS) in Sydney, Australia, was today named the new President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). The IAG advances the use...
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Baku, Fineko/abc.az Cartography factory of State Committee on Land and Cartography is working out the scheme of cities. Director of Cartography factory Mugabil Bayramov has reported that at present the factory is developing schematic plan of the capital. "...
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
The Aquino government continues to use technology and research in addressing and mitigating disasters in the country, said a Department of Science and Technology official. In a regular Communications News Exchange Forum last week at the Philippine Information...
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje today urged local officials to familiarize themselves with the geohazard maps, and implement the necessary measures to reduce the impact of natural disasters on people’s lives and properties. Paje...
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate version 3.3 of the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML). GML 3.3 builds on GML 3.2.1, published by ISO as ISO 19136:2007, and extends GML with additional schema components based on...
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute announced a dozen innovative information and communications technologies featuring user-friendly applications of remote sensing July 4. Information and Communications Research Laboratories showcased a range of devices that run counter to the stereotyped impression...
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
In conjunction with the semi-annual Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC) meeting, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its collaboration with Korea Electric Power Company (KEPCO), on the building of the Total Operations Center at the Jeju Smart...
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The expected construction boom in areas devastated by the March 11 disaster has arrived, but much grumbling is being heard despite the money pouring in from both the public and private sectors. Whispers of a "reconstruction bubble" are...
