Friday, September 16th, 2011
The recently launched Nigerian earth observation satellites will significantly boost the country’s capabilities for natural resource management as well aid disaster relief through the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, the Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Ita Okon Bassey Ewa, has said. Speaking in Abuja while presenting his ministry’s scorecard in the last 100 days, Prof Ewa said
Friday, September 16th, 2011
A Russian Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has been scheduled to lift off on October 1 to put another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit, a Space Forces spokesman said. The launch has been postponed following two failed space launches in August which led to the loss of a Progress space freighter and the Express-AM4 communications satellite. Read
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Germany’s decision to phase out its nuclear power plants by 2022 has rapidly transformed it from power exporter to importer. Despite Berlin’s pledge to move away from nuclear, the country is now merely buying atomic energy from neighbors like the Czech Republic and France. Read More
Friday, September 16th, 2011
If you have never heard of Uunartoq Qeqertaq, it’s possibly because it’s one of the world’s newest islands, appearing in 2006 off the east coast of Greenland, 340 miles north of the Arctic circle when the ice retreated because of global warming. This Thursday the new land – translated from Inuit as Warming Island –
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Urban planning is inherently spatial. It involves both location and time – as well as policy. Geo-technologies for planning-design, data creation, data management, analysis and visualisation are all used to support the dynamic, fluid and ever-changing nature of urban areas. And, they often tend to arise within integrated circumstances. These technologies and geodata allow urban
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) announced that its business information division DMGI has offloaded geospatial firm Sanborn to its management for a “nominal consideration”. “The disposal was triggered by a strategic review that determined that Sanborn’s primary business of the aerial acquisition of geospatial images was non-core to DMGI,” the statement said. Sanborn reported revenues
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
A re-modeled home might not always be better than the original. For many of the world’s tropical fauna and flora, home re-landscaping has in fact proven to be quite deleterious. An international collaboration of researchers compiled data from over 100 studies comparing the biodiversity of primary forests (forests subjected to little or no human disturbance) with
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
The Welsh Government is publishing essential flood risk mapping after a hosted solution from Europa Technologies was implemented in less than a week. ‘viaEuropa for PSMA’ is a new Data as a Service (DaaS) offering that includes key Ordnance Survey data sets covered by the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA). It gives PSMA signatories access to rendered
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
For weary commuters fed up with the long journey to work, the answer often seems to be to move closer to the workplace. But a new service, Mapumental, shows that it’s often just as quick or even speedier to travel into city centres from the suburbs. Mapumental, a tech start up founded by mySociety, allows househunters to see,
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
“Yandex” purchases high resolution images from ScanEx – the distributor of satellite images – covering 10 million sq.km of the Earth territory. This territory is comparable to almost 2/3 of the acreage of Russia. “Yandex” and “ScanEx” companies signed an agreement on purchasing images, covering almost 10 million square kilometers of the Earth surface, said ScanEx’s partner. All
