25. June 2010
The Federal Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (BLE) houses the competence center for geo-information and remote sensing (CC G+F) of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV). Due to these circumstances the BLE is tasked to develop and operate a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) within the portfolio of the BMELV.
The companies terrestris and SimpleThings created a successful bidding consortium as in the case of the geoportal Berlin/Brandenburg and were awarded the contract to implement the SDI using open source software components. terrestris is looking forward to the collaboration with all participants involved!
11. June 2010
For many years projects and companies engaged in free software projects dealing with geographical information systems had the opportunity to present themselves in a special area termed Open Source Park at the trade fair InterGEO. In 2010 it is also envisioned to provide the same service to exhibitors from the open source sector as in past years to present themselves. The company terrestris has been using and developing free software for years now which is one of the reasons why we agreed to adopt a coordinating role in the planning of this years’ Open Source Park. In this we will closely cooperate with the organisers of the trade fair and the companies which assumed this role in recent years.
4. June 2010
It is essential in Mongolia to manage water ressource in a sustainable fashion. This necessity led to a project lasting 3 years funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in which various organisations from Germany dedicated themselves to this task with scientific and practical methods. The project termed MoMo was tremendously successful so that it was extended for another 3 years also with funding from the BMBF.
The company terrestris is very happy to join in in phase II of the project and will be responsible for geodata management. More information about the progress of the project will be published at frequent intervals on these pages.
