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The GeoInformation Group appoints new customer relations staff
The GeoInformation® Group, publishers of Cities Revealed aerial photography have expanded its staff to include a new Client Account Manager and a Technical Contract Liaison. Both positions were created to meet new and existing client communication and management requirements. James Wilson has joined the company as Client Account Manager from Cambridge City Council where, as GIS & Graphics ...
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GeoDATA 2007: FREE Educational Seminars Lighting the Way to GI
Training 4 GIS™, the training and consultancy division of The GeoInformation Group™, announced today that it is offering its fifth national GeoDATA seminar series showcasing geographic data and the benefits they bring to those within both the public and private sectors. Due to the popularity of this educational seminar series, GeoDATA has become an annual fixture encouraging anyone ...
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Citizens Invited to Plan their Future Online with MetroQuest
Vancouver, BC – Envision Sustainability Tools Inc. is pleased to announce the release of MetroQuest Online, a web-based scenario animator that citizens can use to create “what-if” scenarios about the future of their region. As the populations of cities grow, issues like air quality, traffic congestion, government spending and population density become increasingly important. With MetroQuest ...
By MetroQuest
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News alert: Bentley announces availability of FAA-compliant data model for Bentley map V8i
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the immediate availability of a Bentley Map V8i data model for airport information modeling that is compliant with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mapping guidelines. The new data model includes a comprehensive database ...
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Earth Knowledge launches enhanced website and appears on `Our Planet` on CNN Headline News
Earth Knowledge, Inc., a leader in integrating and disseminating environmental and scientific information, today announced the launch of its enhanced website (www.earthknowledge.net) to collect and disseminate late-breaking environmental and scientific news to help business and community leaders, educators, students, advocates, scientists, and the general public keep pace with cutting-edge ...
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Black & Veatch Expands Geographic Information Systems Offering within its Water Business
Kansas City, Mo. – With the increasing demand for geographically related information and services, Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, is expanding its geographic information systems (GIS) offering within its global water business. The geospatial industry has been recognized as having one of the greatest potentials for impact on the economy, ...
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Global geospatial group to promote equitable data access
A high-level global group promoting geospatial information could help developing countries gain better access to data to help tackle issues such as climate change, conservation and disaster management. The UN has set up an expert committee and a programme on global geospatial information management under its Economic and Social Council to encourage international cooperation and establish best ...
By SciDev.Net
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Locating climate, population hotspots
Developing countries are facing a "double whammy" of growing population and an increase in climate change impacts, says an article in Nature Climate Change. But local-level information about who the most vulnerable are and where they live is either lacking or lying unanalysed. Now, some researchers are combining demographic data — which includes information on population size, birth and ...
By SciDev.Net
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Namibia`s satellite centre to warn of disaster threats
A new satellite data centre in Namibia will help farmers prepare for droughts, floods, bushfires and pests. The Earth Observation and Satellite Applications Research and Training Centre (EOSA-RTC), was launched this month (6 July) in collaboration with the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development programme (AMESD). It is located at the Polytechnic of Namibia and ...
By SciDev.Net
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`Intelligent` waste collection system trialled in Shanghai
New research has developed a system to monitor municipal waste. It uses sensors to calculate the weight, volume and, potentially, type of waste, identify hazardous waste and optimise the routes of waste collection trucks. The EU's Sixth Environment Action Programme identifies waste prevention and management as one of four top priorities1. In the EU, approximately 3562 million tons of waste are ...
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Intelligent software to manage biological water quality data
Thanks to the complete integration of KiECO in the water resource management system WISKI and the water quality module, users can track and evaluate biological, chemical-physical and hydrological data in a single system. Holistic analyses now possible In this way KISTERS ensures holistic analyses and the identification of relevant interdependencies between the various types of data. The ...
By Kisters AG
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EU guidelines on better life cycle assessment produced
The EU Joint Research Centre has produced a new part of the handbook that provides guidelines for developing and using Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), which evaluate the environmental impacts of products, focusing specifically on life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). It recommends that assessments should be comprehensive, accessible and easy to apply in order to make LCA a more mainstream concept in ...
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Oregon State Professor Scott Baker Awarded 2011 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation
Scott Baker, Ph.D., associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute and professor of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University, has been awarded a 2011 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. His project will map patterns of isolation and interaction among populations of dolphins in the South Pacific Ocean and identify habitats important to protect for their long-term survival. "Some ...
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EPA Scientist Receives Prestigious Award
Today, Dr. Steven Thomas Purucker of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was honored as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. “Congratulations to Dr. Purucker for receiving this ...
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Intermap Makes NEXTMap® Dataset Available To Esri® Premium World Elevation Service Subscribers
Intermap, a leading provider of 3D terrain information and geospatial solutions, today announces that Esri has selected the Company’s NEXTMap® database to serve as a core component of its soon to be released World Elevation Service (WES). The new integration will make Intermap’s leading-edge geographic information system (GIS) data the first ...
By Esri
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Putting a human face to impacts of climate change
Rising temperatures. Melting icecaps. Dying coral reefs. The list of physical manifestations of greenhouse gas emissions that are discussed during climate talks tends to omit one vital component of the issue — the effect on human beings themselves. This is according to Koko Warner, head of Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability and Adaptation Section at the United Nations ...
By SciDev.Net
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Biodiversity data gaps `need bridging` to meet global targets
Global biodiversity targets are in danger of being missed because of inadequate capacity and tools to gather and assess data, an international conference has heard. The information "is still not there", Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), told a session on scientific approaches to biodiversity at the CBD's 11th Conference of ...
By SciDev.Net
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Support community mapping for climate adaptation
Improving access to information technology can help communities assess their own vulnerability and boost local planning, says John Waugh. Climate change affects virtually all of the natural systems necessary for human survival. It has implications for water supply, food production, health and physical security. Climate impacts will vary from region to region, so planning for adaptation must be ...
By SciDev.Net
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Ecological globalization
Ecosystems are constantly exchanging materials through the movement of air in the atmosphere, the flow of water in rivers and the migration of animals across the landscape. People, however, have also established themselves as another major driver of connectivity among ecosystems. In the June 2008 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, titled “Continental-scale ecology in an ...
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Unmanned technology unveiling the mystery of Antarctica — USV fills data gap for polar expedition
Not long ago, China’s fifth Antarctic scientific research station – the Ross Sea Station officially laid its foundation stone on the Inexpressible Island(74°54’S 163°39’E). The full construction will take another 4 years to complete while preparation and research had already begun a few years ago. In last November, four unmanned surface vessels(USVs) from ...
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