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OS:  South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) has become the first public sector customer of a new ‘on-demand’ service from Ordnance Survey. The OS OnDemand Web Map Tile Service (WMTS-like) will enable SYFR to utilise a single web based view of their geographic location data across a range of systems & platforms from fire incident data to the location of fire hydrants to improve the accessibility of its operational information.

By linking the OS OnDemand WMTS-like service to back office and web based applications, SYFR will have a single, easy to access view of their own location data plotted on Ordnance Survey maps, and available for staff to view over the intranet.  SYFR also intend to develop the tool to plot actual incidents against other datasets such as community safety activity to inform future prevention work.

Press release ~ OS OnDemand WMTS-like service

STFC:  Landmark technology that could revolutionise cancer therapy and pave the way for cleaner, safer nuclear reactors in the future, has been published in Nature Physics.  The pioneering EMMA (Electron Model for Many Applications) accelerator is a prototype for a brand new type of particle accelerator that will massively impact fundamental science by changing the way such accelerators across the world are designed & built in the future. 

The paper reports the first experimental results from EMMA, confirming the proof of principle underlying its technology.
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MoD:  The DataMan geographic system, developed by the MOD's Joint Aeronautical and Geospatial Organisation (JAGO), has been recognised as one of 2011's top 5 programmes & innovations in the ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) community. 

DataMan is connected to the military's secure network in and delivers a common geospatial picture via a secure online browser called GeoViewer.  It brings together a huge range of otherwise disparate data from multiple sources, the common factor being location.  It also delivers geospatial information directly into other Command and Control (C2) and Intelligence applications on the OVERTASK network.

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