Saturday, May 28th, 2011
Food prices are expected to hit new highs in the coming weeks, tightening the squeeze on UK households and potentially triggering further unrest in developing countries unless there is heavy rainfall across drought-affected Europe, the United Nations has warned. The average global price of cereals jumped by 71% to a new record in the year
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
The brain’s understanding of spatial awareness involves more of our senses that just sight, including the sense of touch, U.K. researchers say. The finding by researchers at the University of Edinburgh could help in the design of technology to aid the visually impaired, a university release said. Read More
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Great Britain has more woodland than previous estimates indicated, according to provisional results from the National Forest Inventory. The provisional results of analysis of high-tech aerial photography, satellite imagery and other sources were published today as part of a major Forestry Commission project to compile the next National Forest Inventory (NFI). They show that there are 2,982,000
Friday, May 27th, 2011
“The concept of navigation and convenience is changing,” explains Louw. “People now have access to Live incoming data. The innovations of how this technology will change the life of an individual are growing every day. We are seeing that people are relying more on maps to solve their needs.” Read More
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Vietnam’s mangrove ecosystems are tremendously valuable, providing ecosystem services like carbon sequestration, protection from storms, floods, and erosion, provision of timber and non-timber forest products, processing of waste and nutrient pollution, aquaculture and agriculture support, and habitat for aquatic and terrestrial species. Yet, as in many other parts of the world, short-term development needs are
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Little tropical countries like Sri Lanka are almost invisible on the global REDD+ agenda. The country is so small, it has been so silent on the REDD front, it has little forest left and it has been embroiled in war for decades. What REDD+ potential could it possibly have?
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Getmapping has delivered 2010 aerial imagery to Vale of Glamorgan District Council providing an up-to-date and highly detailed backdrop to the Council’s mapping systems. The Council makes the imagery available to all staff right across its service delivery departments.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Over the next 40 years we will have to build the same urban capacity again that was built over the last 4000 years. On top of this, 80 percent of the expected US$80-100 billion per year in climate change adaptation costs are to be borne by urban areas. Now is the time to make sure
Friday, May 27th, 2011
The companies Wien ENERGIE Stromnetz GmbH and WIEN ENERGIE Gasnetz GmbH (electricity and gas distribution of Vienna) decide to migrate from SICAD/open to ArcFM UT – both are products of the company AED-SICAD AG. The target of the introduction of ArcFM UT is to advance the network documentation to a modern software basis and to continue
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated and Tekla Corporation today announced a joint collaboration to further advance the interoperability of software within Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows. The two companies are improving interoperability between the Tekla Structures BIM software and Bentley’s Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) methodology.
