Thursday, September 1st, 2011
nationalatlas.de summarizes information from the Leibniz Institute for Regional Studies together for the National Atlas of Germany and the cards from this advanced projects and provides an overview of numerous other national atlas works. A special service aimed primarily at teachers and journalists: The National Atlas archive all the maps and graphics makes the twelve-volume National
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The GIS Best Practice Award from the German DVW eV – Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management will be awarded for GIS projects that are exemplary and serve as models and reference examples. The Award is expected to increase the publicity of these projects and knowledge transfer is anticipated to be promoted in the use
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
This means that the seismic vessel “Harrier Explorer”, which is chartered by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, will be operating alone in the area rest of the season. The weather conditions in the Barents Sea have been very good in the last months, and the vessel has collected data from 7000 kilometers of this year’s collection program,
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The small farmers in the former West Germany can’t keep up with the extreme efficiency of the often enormous enterprises in the former East Germany. The big farms in the east also have a much better deal when it comes to subsidies from the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Read More
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
A new experiment will assess the viability of storing carbon pollution underground by artificially creating seams of limestone. The India Times reported that the project will begin next month at Hellisheidi in south west Iceland, near Reykjavik Energy’s geothermal power stations. If it is successful, the carbon dioxide pumped down into the basalt rock will turn into
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The famine in the Horn of Africa has put some 12 million people at risk of starvation. Though it’s one of the worst droughts in the region for decades, the reasons for it aren’t new. Rising populations, worsening soil erosion and extreme weather have created huge pressures on agriculture. People are using agricultural land much more intensively
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
TransCanada Corporation is pleased that the Final Environmental Impact Statement(FEIS) for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline has reaffirmed the environmental integrity of the project.This is the third Environmental Impact Statement that the U.S. Department of State has issued on Keystone XL since the review process began in 2008.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The initiative is justified, among others, by the need to “inter-condition the activities of MDRT and ANCPI” in view of achieving the common sectorial policy goals of regional development planning and systematic cadastral and land registration, and by the need to correlate territorial development policies with the land management activity, reads the act drafted by
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
FM:Systems today announced continued global expansion, signing on partners Precision Design Solution in Malaysia, Geomap GIS America in Montreal, PX Engineering in Norway and Crown Systems in Singapore. This comes on the heels of FM:Systems’ recent partnership with Shanghai, China-based FacilityOne. Read More
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The Australian metropolis topped the Economist Intelligence Unit’s global livability survey of 140 cities, ahead of the Canadian city which dominated the rankings for almost a decade but is now third behind Vienna, the Austrian capital. Australian cities featured prominently in the top 10, with Sydney ranked sixth and Perth and Adelaide in joint eighth place, according
