Today 12 November, a lander called Philae from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft made the first-ever landing on a comet, Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. This image of the comet 3 km away was taken by Philae before it landed.
The UK Government’s goal for construction industry is to reduce the CAPEX for public construction (design and build) projects. To reach its goal for the construction industry the UK Government has undertaken several initiatives, one […]
At the BIM Worldwide: Solutions for Canada conference in Toronto, Patrick MacLeamy, Chairman of buildingSMART and CEO of HOK delivered the keynote. His message was very simple. In the U.S. buildings are too expensive, are too […]
Nanosatellites for Earth observation are very small, low cost satellites typically weighing kilograms and with volumes of a few liters. NASA has a program called the CubeSat Launch initiative (CSLI) which provides opportunities for nanosatellites […]
28 Dove Cubesat satellites each weighing about 5 kilograms of Planet Labs’ Flock 1 constellation began deploying in early February of this year from the ISS. Planet Labs, San Francisco, California provides medium-resolution (3- to […]
At the ISO/TC 59 Plenary Week in Toronto this week, a day long collaboration session was organized by ISO/TC 59, buildingSMART, and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This is a major milestone for the development […]
The New York Public Utility Commission is moving the New York state utility industry toward a radical refinition of utilities as we have known them over the past hundred years since Tesla and Edison created […]
At Oracle Open World in San Francisco 2014, September 28–October 2 the Oracle Spatial and Graph SIG held a Meetup. By way of background Oracle Spatial and Graph support geospatial data and analytics for land […]