Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Don’t miss the Working Week 2012 in the beautiful city of Rome. Register now and make use of the Early Bird Rate which is open until 21 February 2012. After 21 February the registration fee will be 570 EUR. The registration fee includes participation in the General Assembly (6 and 10 May), three conference days (7-9 May), lunches, coffees,
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Oman represents one of the fastest growing power and water sectors in the Middle East region with electricity and desalinated water demand expected to increase until 2017 at an average growth rate of about 9% per year according to the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company’s 7-Year Statement 2011-1017. To face the increasing demand, Oman
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Biomass accounts for less than 2pc of Ireland’s total final energy consumption, whereas it is nearly six times this figure (11.6pc) across the EU. And Ireland will be the last country in the EU to introduce elevated prices for renewables such as Renewable Energy Feed In Tariffs (REFIT). Read More
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The surface waters of the Danube River froze completely on Saturday near the port of Silistra, the first time in 20 years that Europe’s busiest waterway froze in Bulgaria, said the Danube exploration agency. The Danube was last totally sealed by ice in Bulgaria in the winter of 1984-1985, they said. Read More
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Smoke from forest fires and bush causes 339 000 deaths on average per year worldwide, according to a study presented Saturday at a scientific conference, experts predict a sharp increase of the fires in the future because of global warming. Read More
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) in Northern Ireland is setting up a £9m contract for an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS). It is aimed at correcting shortcomings in the existing GIS and its Land Parcel Information System function, which have been in place since December 2004. The department said the system is also intended
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
A new service of access to spatial data “Express. Kosmosnimki” started to operate in test mode. The service was created by ScanEx specialists to streamline and expedite spatial data delivery to the end-user’s operations environment. Desktop GIS application can be such an environment (Mapinfo, ArcMap, Gismeteo, GlobalMapper, etc.) or Web-GIS applications, such as ArcGIS API,
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Three years from now Saudi Arabia will have one of the most extensive rail networks in the world. It will rival grids in such advanced nations as Spain, France and Germany. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved billions of riyals in recent years for the construction of multiple projects to link cities
Monday, February 20th, 2012
This is the combined capability of the next stage of development, announced today, of two giant computers, HECToR and BlueGene/Q, based at the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility (ACF). It marks the next chapter in the UK’s supercomputing programme. The computers can deliver complex computer simulations across a range of scientific disciplines and are funded
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Just about every Finn has an unshakeable view on what is wrong with the airline Finnair and how the problems should be solved. Plans announced this week by Finnair raise some questions. We could ask Andrew Lobbenberg to answer some of them. Lobbenberg is an analyst at the British RBS bank, who monitors issues related to European airlines.
