Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Concerned over the shrinking tree population in the city and its suburbs, the forest department is set to launch a census in the Chennai Metropolitan Area, sprawling over 1,189 sq km, in the first week of June. The mammoth two-phase exercise is expected to throw up data on the indigenous vegetation on the city’s landscape
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The Czech Republic is aware of the still growing importance of space technologies for modern society. The number of fields of human activities which are finding their application in technologies based on navigation, communication or remote sensing of the Earth is getting larger all the time. The development of space technologies has been laid down
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The recent dry weather which saw just 24 per cent of the average rainfall for April is likely to become a more frequent occurrence in the future due to the impacts of climate change. Therefore long term planning is needed to ensure sufficient water is available during hotter, drier summers.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Qualcomm chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs said earlier this monththe San Diego wireless giant has developed technology that enables smartphones to use either GPS or Russia’s Glonass satellite location capabilities. Today, Qualcomm saysthe first GPS+Glonass-capable phone is the MTS 945, available from Russian mobile operator and retailer MTS. It’s an Android-based phone made by China’s
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Wycombe District Council has gone live with a new online mapping and information service supplied by Astun Technology. ‘My Wycombe’ enables local residents to use their Postcode or part address to find information about local services, locate facilities on maps and even sign up for automated email alerts. ‘My Wycombe’ provides information about councillors, next
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The report conducts a comparative study of potential national governance structures for REDD+. The role of such structures will be to channel resources from the international level to measures on the ground that have the capacity to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. As REDD+ is still mainly on the drawing table, the analysis is based
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus and takes a holistic approach in bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities. High profile speakers from all over the world are invited for giving presentations and running hands-on workshops for the conference series. Read More
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
RealD Inc. a leading global licensor of 3D technologies, and Samsung Electronics LCD Business announced today that they have completed a license agreement to make available to consumer electronics manufacturers panels featuring a new jointly developed 3D display technology, which delivers full resolution 3D images to each eye utilizing RealD 3D cinema glasses. Introduced in January 2011
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Combining remote sensing measurement tools with 60-meter meteorological tower data is an accurate, cost-effective alternative to collecting wind information vs. with 80-meter met towers alone, according to a cost analysis from Second Wind. The analysis determined that one wind study using Second Wind’s Triton remote sensing system and one 60-meter meteorological tower costs 35 percent less than the
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
WhereScape, the developer of WhereScape RED, an agile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for managing data warehouses, today introduced WhereScape 3D, a data driven design tool for planning and reality-testing data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) projects. Using WhereScape 3D, organizations are able to de-risk projects by planning accurate, user-tested projects up front, in hours or days
