Saturday, August 13th, 2011
As LiDAR data becomes increasingly accessible, a LiDAR-MapWindow Hydrographic Features Extraction tool has been designed to enhance watershed modeling. It is known that LiDAR can provide up to date information to guide decisions on flood insurance, it requires that terrain data be preprocessed into a regularly spaced grid of elevations (such as a DEM) before
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Britain is unlikely to experience another giant volcanic ash cloud like the one from the Iceland volcano in 2010 for at least another 50 years, a study says. The ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano disrupted air travel across Europe and cost businesses more than $3.2 billion, the BBC said Friday. Read More
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Finnish regional daily Turun Sanomat reported on Friday that weather forecast accuracy has fallen in recent years. The Finnish Meteorological Institute told that the accuracy probability of temperature forecasts fell to below 80 per cent in Finland last year. Read More
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
First Minister Alex Salmond today renewed the Scottish Government’s pledge to drive forward Scotland’s renewables industry as he met representatives of Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd. (“MORL”), the joint venture company owned by EDP Renewables and Repsol to develop offshore wind energy in the Outer Moray Firth. Mr Salmond discussed their plans to develop up to 1,500
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
XLabz Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a leading provider of cutting edge mobile applications officially announced the all India release of their successful GPS based virtual treasure hunt and social networking game GeoSocials. With an initial limited release for the iPhone in the United States of America and subsequent staggered launches across Europe and Asia, GeoSocials has since
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Russia’s Space Forces have started ground tests of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, which will orbit a Glonass satellite at the end of August, spokesman Lt. Col. Vitaly Vyatkin said on Thursday. “The rocket has not been assembled yet but its systems and ground equipment are connected together by electric wires for preliminary testing,” Vyatkin said. “If
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Hydropower has been a key renewable source of energy in the US, accounting for 61.58% of the total power generated from all renewable sources in 2009. It also dominated the US’ total installed capacity for renewable power with a share of nearly 66.32% in the same year. Meanwhile hydro’s cumulative installed capacity had reached 101,355MW
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Intermap Technologies today announced that its airborne data collection activities have commenced on a previously announced contract (December 29, 2010) to provide 3D digital elevation models and orthorectified radar images as part of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) program. This $12.4 million contract is intended to update the customer’s current 1:50,000-scale base map and will
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Basic satellite coverage of “Kosmosnimki.Ru” geoportal now includes SPOT mosaic of the territory of over 5 million square kilometers, covering 14 federal constituents in Siberia and Far East of Russia, as well as South-Western areas of Krasnoyarsk Territory. In early August satellite coverage of SPOT with resolution of 10 m was posted in the Kosmosnimki.Ru web resource.
Friday, August 12th, 2011
For the first time, candidates for the GeoBusiness Award 2011 will present their innovative projects at INTERGEO in Nuremberg. The ideas range from an online platform for forestry information and an iPhone app for species conservation to a portal providing information on cabling for construction projects. The award – which comes with a prize of
