Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
TomTom today announces the availability of its MultiNet suite of map products in Esri’s file geodatabase format. As GIS datasets increase in size, TomTom is offering enterprise customers a data solution that improves versatility, optimizes performance and allows for customizable storage configuration. Large TomTom datasets may now be consumed directly by Esri applications in a file geodatabase
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The Department of Space has raised concerns about the new telecom policy and wants spectrum in the S band kept aside for satellite-based services. In a communication to the Department of Telecom, the space department has said that the policy should promote satellite- based broadband services wherever terrestrial solutions are not feasible. Read More
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
IT solutions company Symantec urged small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the country to make disaster preparedness as one of their top priorities. Citing Symantec’s 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey in the Philippines, the study showed SMBs are not making disaster preparedness a priority until they experience a disaster or data loss. Luichi Robles, senior country manager
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Russia is planning to launch at least 100 military satellites in the next 10 years to boost its reconnaissance and missile detection capabilities, head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin said on Wednesday. “The new 100 satellites will provide us with better quality intelligence, faster and more reliable communications,” Popovkin said in an interview with
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Almost a year after the Japanese Tohoku earthquake and mega-tsunami, the Pacific Ocean is still dealing with the consequences of the catastrophe. A mass of debris was washed out to sea as floodwaters receded from the land, and some of that wreckage continues to float around the ocean. Most of it headed eastwards, according to modelling
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s launching of Chandrayaan-1, the country’s first-ever moon probe, that detected water on the moon and its subsequent announcement that it would land an Indian on the planet by 2020 were celebrated events that sent sky-high the scientific community’s fame a couple of years back. So any fall from such dizzying and
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
A Netherlands-based environmental organization, Wetlands International, is charging in a new report that Malaysia is destroying its tropical rainforest at a rate three times faster than the rest of Asia combined, particularly in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, with the expectation that “expansion of oil palm plantations may lead to the complete loss of
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The 28th Chinese expedition to the South Pole took aerial photos of the Dark Glacier on the fringes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the use of a helicopter, Xinhua reports. Mo Yubing, from the Heilongjiang Geographical Mapping Bureau, said that the whole process was carried out using a 60 million pixel digital camera attached to
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Sigma Space’s Micro Pulse LiDAR (MPL) was installed at Bariloche airport in Argentina on January 30th at the request of the Argentinean Ministry of Defense. Since the June 2011 eruption of the Chilean Puyehue, Bariloche has been suffering from intermittent ash clouds blowing from the volcano, and the airport in Bariloche has been closed much
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Opening up energy markets to private sector investment through the introduction of smart government policies will be the key to unlocking Africa’s massive renewable energy potential, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In doing so, millions can be lifted out of poverty and the sustainable development potential of the continent
