Thursday, October 20th, 2011
VERIPOS has extended its Asia Pacific operations with the opening of a branch office in Australia, in April. The facility is based in Perth and will provide sales and support for both Australia and New Zealand. Bernard He has been appointed as Veripos Country Manager – Australia. With the establishment of a workshop and dedicated training
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The agreement is the latest collaboration between the capital and the Seychelles. The cooperation includes aviation and renewable energy. Under the deal, a team from Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) will work with the Seychelles planning authority to develop a master plan for the city of Victoria on Mahé Island. Read More
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Farmers and land sector managers should look into early funding opportunities from the government’s carbon tax package, says Independent MP Rob Oakeshott. The tax, which is expected to pass through the Senate next month with the Green’s support and be implemented from July 1, 2012, offers a range of opportunities for agriculture within the scheme beyond
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The government-commissioned report warns of potential humanitarian disasters because of climate change. It says the cost of acting now would be much less than the cost of the conflicts and huge loss of life that would otherwise ensue. The report focused on the issue of human migration patterns. The Migration and Global Environmental Change Foresight Report is the
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
A ten-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment and Forests visited the Department of Space headquarters and its satellite assembly facilities on Tuesday, an ISRO release said. Dr T.Subbarami Reddy, Standing Committee Chairman, was accompanied by three members of the Rajya Sabha and six members of the Lok Sabha. Read More
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
In an update to the handset’s published specifications, Apple added GLONASS capability to Assisted GPS and cellular location finding, reports Russian website iPhones.ru. The site noted that the iPhone 4S may be using a new Broadcom chipset to communicate with the satellite location system. Although Russia’s GLONASS is not as accurate as its U.S. counterpart,
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
AVEVA announced PDS Protek AS, has made a strategic investment in AVEVA PDMS which will be used as the company’s preferred engineering design tool for work within the oil & gas industry. Based in Haugesund, Norway, PDS Protek offers in-house engineering and consultancy services to the oil & gas industry including Mechanical, Piping and Structural disciplines. AVEVA PDMS has become a de-facto industry
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The Japanese Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, is an instrument on board NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map it produces is called a global digital elevation model, and gets its 3D effect by combining two slightly offset two-dimensional images. The update to the ASTER data adds 260,000 images to the already-expansive map and improves
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Russia is to spend $11 billion on its brand new GLONASS navigation system, hoping to make it as good as American rival GPS. The plan is to cover the whole planet with GLONASS, which requires more satellites to be launched. This year alone, seven of them are scheduled to reach the Earth’s orbit. The developers also hope
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The Mining Cadastre Office has issued out a total of 12,000 mining titles leases, it was learnt yesterday. The Minister, Musa Sada disclosed this in Abuja during the Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geologists (COMEG) stakeholders’ forum on Compliance and Enforcement in the Extractive industries . He said in the next 10 years, the plan of the government
