The use of satellite imagery to prosecute those responsible for oil spills has come to the attention of the marine liability industry. North P&I, a UK company providing protection and indemnity insurance to shipowners, is warning their clients that they are now at a higher risk of being investigated for maritime pollution offences, due […]
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ESRI to Help Visualise China Smart Grid
ESRI has won the bidding to supply software to a project that aims to build a Smart Grid in China. The "SG186" project of the State Grid Corporation in China (SGCC) aims to strengthen information systems to support the build-out of a nationwide smart grid as part of the Eleventh Five-Year Program, which runs from […]
Mapping Crime In San Francisco
Bloggers have created a series of 3D maps that show the crime rate in San Francisco as peaks in the landscape. The smaps help locals to get a picture of the crime rate in their area for a number of offences including narcotics, prostitution, assault, vehicle theft and robbery. The information was taken from […]
Mashing in NSW
Innovative ideas for using and sharing government information in New South Wales have been recognised with $100,000 in prize money. An application that allows users to overlay Australian demographic information onto a map and a mashup that compares and contrasts Australian suburbs were the joint first place winners in the Apps4NSW mashup competition. Winners of […]
Business Intelligence from Location Intelligence Solutions from OMNILINK
Location is a unifying theme in business. Location can be an address, a service boundary, a sales territory, or a delivery route. All these things can be visualised and interactively managed and analyzed. Spatial relationships, patterns and trends reveal invaluable business intelligence and bring easy-to-understand visualisation to business applications. Location Intelligence Solutions can be used […]
Air Traffic Control Moves to GNSS
About ten years ago it became clear that in many parts of the world airspace was approaching saturation point. Air transportation was plagued by delays, and safety had begun to be compromised. The existing outmoded groundbased radar systems, already stretched to the limit, were hardly able to cope. In the US, there are around 50,000 […]
Laser Scanning for Mine Safety
SIMON ARTHUR and DAVID ELDRIDGE In an effort to enhance mine safety, the management of Beaconsfield gold mine, at Beaconsfield in north eastern Tasmania, has purchased a new laser scanning system. It can rapidly scan the underground workings. What’s more, it is remote-controlled, so the operators are never exposed to danger. Historically, Beaconsfield’s mine surveying […]
Surveying the North Pole
JON FAIRALL Australians may still be locked into a grand debate between climate change sceptics and Greenies, but the polar bears are in no doubt. Neither are the world's oil companies. As the Arctic ice sheet collapses, the bears are heading south into the steaming heat of the Canadian steppes and the oil prospectors are […]
Earthquake Prediction After Sichuan
PAUL GRAD A massive earthquake hit China’s Sichuan Province on 12 May. As aftershocks and landslides threatened further loss of life and property damage, a team from the University of New South Wales joined several other organisations to provide detailed satellite images of the affected area. The earth tremor was of magnitude 8.0 on the […]
