Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
This evaluation is part of the first phase of a real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). As such, it is a major undertaking and the first of its kind for the Evaluation Department. The evaluation is conducted by a team of independent evaluators from the British company LTS International in collaboration
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
VisionMap LTD, a leading provider of digital mapping systems, announced today that A3 ground processing system version 2.0 is now released. The new ground processing system, together with A3 camera improvements now feature better radiometry, higher resolution DSM processing, as well as accurate AT and seamless Orthophoto generation processed in a fully automatic workflow. The
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Interest in “nested” approaches to REDD+ has grown steadily as policy makers, practitioners and investors seek to reconcile approaches to reducing, and rewarding, emissions reductions at different scales – national, subnational and project. The 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Cancun marked the UNFCCC’s formal acknowledgement of subnational approaches
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Deutsche Telekom and Gemalto together announce that BMW automobile is embedding their Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solution in its latest car models to enable emergency call (eCall) services. Deutsche Telekom is the first network operator whose automotive MFF-SIMs solutions are built into an industrial product series, further demonstrating its innovation leadership in the automotive industry.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
There are five critical navigation spots in the Bulgarian section of the Danube River resulting from its drastically low level, according to the state authorities. The level of the Danube at the city of Ruse is only 189 cm, and is expected to decline by 20 more cm in the next two days, announced Georgi Georgiev, head of the Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The high-speed express train Allegro that has been operating between Helsinki and St. Petersburg since December is attracting a lot of passengers. In February-March, the number of people travelling on the route was 40 per cent higher than that in the corresponding period last year, and in April, passenger numbers on the line have continued to be high.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
A government thinktank has predicted that the British marine energysector could be worth £76bn to the economy and support 68,000 jobs by 2050. The analysis, released this week by the Carbon Trust, comes only weeks after coalition ministers ended the industry’s subsidy programme. Britain could capture almost a quarter of the global wave and tidal power market if
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Japan’s parliament on Monday passed a $50 billion emergency budget for disaster relief after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, a downpayment on what is set to be country’s biggest public works effort in six decades. The overall cost of damage caused by the world’s costliest natural disaster is estimated at $300 billion and the 4
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Septentrio announces PolaRx4, a versatile multi-frequency high performance GNSS receiver providing network operators and scientific users with high-quality tracking and measurement of all available and upcoming GNSS signals. Innovative GNSS signal processing, extensive networking capabilities, robust design and a highly-valued intuitive user interface make this family an excellent choice as future-proof base station solution.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The University of Canterbury has been formally accepted as an Essential Participant in the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. The New Zealand node of the Australian-based CRCSI was established in 2010 and is based in the New Zealand Geospatial Office. With LINZ as New Zealand’s “anchor” government participant, and a growing number of local
