Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Devastating natural disasters have killed close to a million people and caused billions of pounds of damage in the past few years. Despite its sophisticated technology, humanity remains hugely vulnerable to earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and other calamities. The danger is only likely to increase, say geologists and weather experts. Earth’s swelling numbers are forcing
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Thanks to the significant experience gained throughout 7 magical years of the Display® Campaign, Energy Cities with contributions from Displayers has launched a briefing note for the Concerted Action, national governments and organisations in charge with the transposition of the EPBD, interested MEPs and national parliamentarians. Read More
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
SpecTIR has made available a number of airborne hyperspectral imagery data sets for research, training, and educational purposes. They will be available from the SpecTIR website at http://www.spectir.com/download.html and cover a wide variety of subjects which include : Gulf of Mexico coastal National Wildlife Refuge wetlands prior to oil landing onshore.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The ever-growing mobile phone traffic and the rapidly increased use of mobile wireless Internet connections have all but paralysed the scatter radar system used in Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland as part of the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) programme, which studies the interaction between the sun and the earth as revealed by upper atmosphere
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Imagine using the power of augmented reality not just for places and monuments but also to get public information on people arround you. Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques, and in 2001, he made
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Following the success of the first course, start the time to register for the 2nd edition of the Course Specialist Analysis of Risk Management for Flood and Flood (CEAGRAI 2011), which TECNOSYLVA participates as a partner. This year the course will be jointly organized by the UCLM and UPM, and capital will be held in Madrid, between May
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
DMS Group becomes the first company founded and run by students develop a project to IGN in this area. The European Directive INSPIRE and its implementation in Spain “LISIGE” provide the guidance necessary to make available to the public geographic information generated by any public institution documented through metadata. Read More
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The maiden launch of the veteran Soviet-Russian rocket Soyuz from Europe’s space base in South America has been scheduled for October, a spokesman for launch operators Arianespace said on Tuesday. “Right now we are looking at mid-October” for the first launch, said spokesman Mario de Lepine. Soyuz will carry the first two satellites in Europe’s Galileo navigation
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The Global Space and Satellite Forum 2011 is hosting the second European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), which aims to encourage entrants to use technology in innovative ways. The MENA leg of the competition is being run by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF). The kick-off event is being held on the third day of GSSF and
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The TanDEM-X Science Service System is a web interface for the submission and evaluation of scientific proposals. The portal is the main interface for Principal Investigators to define their acquisition requests. It is further used to monitor and track the status of submitted proposals and is a tool for the science coordination team to help
