Monday, September 6th, 2010
INDIA TALKIES – According to data available with DoLR, the area occupied by wastelands in the country was assessed at 63.85 million hectare in a project spanning five phases — between 1986 and 2000. A similar exercise in 2003 revealed that wastelands had shrunk by 8.21 million hectares. The latest Wasteland Atlas of India, based
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Shaanxi Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SHASM), established in 1957, is directly under the leadership of State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China (SBSM). It is one of the largest and most important surveying and mapping production base in China. Moreover, SHASM also performs surveying and mapping administration within Shaanxi Province. It mainly undertakes
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Just in time for FOSS4G the GeoServer community is pleased to announce the release of 2.1 beta1. The first beta release of the long awaited 2.1 branch is now available for download. Anticipation for this release has been growing over the last few months due to the number of notable new features it brings. Let’s go
Monday, September 6th, 2010
Land and Land Resources refer to a delineable area of the earth’s terrestrial surface, encompassing all attributes of the biosphere immediately above or below this surface, including those of the near-surface, climate, the soil and terrain forms, the surface hydrology (including shallow lakes, rivers, marshes and swamps), the near-surface sedimentary layers and associated groundwater and
Monday, September 6th, 2010
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World. This product derives from the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) developed at the University of Maryland on NASA funds. GFIMS complements existing near real time information systems
Monday, September 6th, 2010
This manual is designed specifically for engineers, technicians and extension workers involved in agriculture, commercial farmers and contractors – all with some understanding of engineering and some experience of dams, irrigation and water supply – involved in the siting, design and construction of small earth dams in the drier parts of the African continent. It
Monday, September 6th, 2010
ICT UPDATE – People working in agribusiness use GIS software for precision farming, land management, business operations, and much more. GIS provides the means to spatially view variables that affect crop yields, erosion and drought risk, and business opportunities. Farmers are now able to access online agricultural data from government services such as the USDA’s
Monday, September 6th, 2010
ALL VOICES – Russian and Indian companies signed a business agreement, which opens opportunities for Indian buses to be guided by a Russian satellite navigation system. Interfax news agency report on Saturday (4 / 9), said cooperation “HBL Power Systems” (India) and “Navigation Information Systems” (NIS) of Russia, it used a satellite system “Glonass” and
Monday, September 6th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – The World Water Week is opening in Stockholm on Sunday to last until September 11, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) reported. The week, a global water conference held annually since 1991, takes place in August or September. The theme for 2010 will be “The Water Quality Challenge – Prevention, Wise Use
Monday, September 6th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – The government will this month sound the death knell for the world’s largest tidal energy project – to be built across the Severn estuary between Somerset and south Wales – when it rules out public funding for the controversial £20bn plan. The announcement will please some environmentalists, who were worried about the impact
