Since its founding in 1989, ENN’s mission has been to create innovative ways of producing and using cleaner energy. ENN’s cleaner energy solutions provide clients with innovative ways of meeting emission targets that can both cut costs and protect the environment. As of June 2011, ENN employed more than 27,000 people and had total assets of more than 40 billion RMB. It operates more than 100 subsidiaries around the world, and in more than 100 cities throughout China.

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Getting stuck in the mud has been costly for the government and companies operating and owning assets in the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia. Geoimage developed the Boggy Index – Bowen Basin to assist those operating within the Bowen Basin to make decisions and account for soil saturated conditions under different climate scenarios.

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Building detailed geological surfaces and solids is essential to a productive mine. It’s also time consuming. Wire-framing drillhole data amid details and  takes time that could be spent analyzing information, testing theories and generally being a geologist. Mining software company, Mintec, Inc., believes it has solved this challenge with the release of MineSight Implicit Modeler.

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3D Internet gives the internet services and users a shape. Internet of Things connects the items of our environment and enables monitoring and maintenance over the internet. Integrated, 3D Internet and Internet of Things may change our perception of the world!

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Site selection within the energy sector in Alberta, Canada depends upon many factors. Traditionally surveyors are involved in the process but with the introduction of new 3D technologies, the role of the surveyor is no longer required for the site selection stage. LiDAR has proven beneficial for this kind of work and several advantages can be attributed to the technology for reasons involving timeliness, cost and improved efficiency.

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Since its inception in 2006, Voxler has developed into an all-encompassing scientific 3D data visualization and graphics application. Voxler quickly and easily imports data from a multitude of file types to create stunning graphics allowing a user to explore the relationship between 3D data sets. This robust, yet easy-to-use program displays data in a variety of colors, views, and 3D formats including 3D rendered volumes, Isosurfaces, straight and deviated well bores, scatter plots, 3D block models, contours, 3D slices, orthographic and oblique images, stream lines, and vector plots.

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Remote warfare, which puts a premium on UAV’s, special forces and private contractors, is being hailed as an ideal alternative to traditional practices. That’s not good, argues Paul Rogers. Whatever war-weary publics may want, this vision of hard power is no panacea for the future. 

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3D is one of the technologies currently on the cusp of making a great breakthrough in to the world of education. Of course, it isn’t a new technology but its advance towards becoming part of the school ‘furniture’, has seen a large growth over the last couple of years. This growth is also fueled by new advances in hardware and software, as well as new approaches for teaching and education. This has led to increasing use of 3D in the classroom to more effectively help students to understand.

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Cheetah 3D packs a lot of modeling, animation and rendering value for a good price. The software allows beginner to professional level designers and creators to create quickly and easily. Advanced features like particle generation, UV mapping and a wide range of polygon handling capabilities together with a wide range of import / export functionality adds adaptability. Rendering is quick and the program is stable with good support. 

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Laser scanning is a useful tool for quickly acquiring 3D information for existing infrastructure. Some of the main functions are the registration and geo-registration of individual scans. Real time transfer of 3D points, 3D lines, 3D circle, 3D polygons, 3D areas and cuboids can then be used in CAD systems. The BSR is the largest urban waste disposal contractor in the EU and has its main office in Berlin-Tempelhof district. This project was located at the waste devaluation ground in Berlin-Ruhleben.

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Traditionally, image analysis involves one or more independent images that are analysed during the same point in time. Although images from different time periods may be compared, using similar analysis techniques, it takes a geographic information system (GIS) to perform the integration / comparison function. Today many people are marking up images, adding their own context and stories to them. To date, we have barely begun to assimilate that information into image analysis, and even less so using analytical tools. Combining social media identifications, notations and other details along with high quality imagery, then performing spatial analysis, opens the door to entirely new possibilities, especially in 3D. 

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Food prices are climbing as resources and inputs become more expensive. At the same time the weather is constantly changing, further burdening agricultural production and straining water use for crop growth. 3D agriculture aims not only to manage input costs, but to also provide a mechanism for developing a successful strategy, managing operations and understanding what is really happening in farm fields, How do all of the technologies come together for 3D agricultural use? How do we cut through complexity to produce more food at lower cost in less time?

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