Monday, February 20th, 2012
Norway’s Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have confirmed that the Zafarani-1 well in Block 2 offshore Tanzania has encountered indications of natural gas in a good quality reservoir. They say in a press release that drilling operations are still on-going and it is too early to give any indication of size and commerciality. Read More
Monday, February 20th, 2012
imagina 2012 – The European 3D Simulation and Virtual Technology Event was held in Monaco February 7-9, 2012. This annual event brings together pioneering indivudals and organisations developing a wide range of 3D related products in the areas of design, processing, diagnostics, decision making, consultation, demonstration and communication. Architecture, urbanism and landscape design are key
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Michael Oskin, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, is lead author on a recent Science journal paper that describes how a team of scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and China used differential absorption LIDAR(light detection and ranging) to report the most comprehensive three-dimensional (3D) before-and-after pictures yet of an earthquake zone using data from the magnitude 7.2 event
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Europe’s meteorological satellite organization, Eumetsat, has again been unable to secure its member governments’ full support to start work on a next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system and will try anew in July, Eumetsat officials said. The 27-nation Eumetsat said it has nonetheless increased the guaranteed contributions to the program, to 83 percent of the total
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
EuroGeographics provided updated EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap, EuroBoundaryMap products, to Eurostat based on contract signed with them, on behalf of the European Commission. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 supplied to Eurostat, now covers 41 countries and territories and includes the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia for the first time. EuroBoundaryMap V6.0 will be released to the market place at the end of February 2012. Existing
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
TomTom announced that together they will introduce HD Traffic, a premium real-time traffic solution, to drivers across China. Through the joint-venture TomTom and AutoNavi will enable their customers in automotive, wireless and enterprise markets to deliver solutions based on the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic information.
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Robots could soon be capable of real-time autonomous navigation by creating and continuously updating an internal three-dimensional map. Indeed, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have designed such a system based on advanced algorithms and a low-cost interactive camera like the one found in Microsoft’s Kinect. Read More
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Russia suggests using the GLONASS system for the struggle against Afghan drug trafficking, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “We would be prepared to use the GLONASS system against drug smuggling from Afghanistan,” Lavrov said. “We also suggest creating inter-active maps of drug plantations in Afghanistan for their subsequent elimination.” Read More
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
The president of one of the world’s biggest scientific organizations says the research community is being outgunned by naysayers. She said she is “scared to death” by trends that show declining public acceptance of global warming and the growing influence of science skeptics, who have plenty of resources to spread their misinformation. Read More
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
The Stavanger region has over the last 40 years developed into one of the strongest energy clusters in Europe. Now Murmansk Oblasts has engaged in a close cooperation with the Norwegian oil capital. Read More
