Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
The GEBCO_08 Grid is now available as a Web Map Service(WMS), a means of accessing geo-referenced map images over the internet. These maps can be viewed in a web browser; incorporated in your own web application or displayed in various GIS/mapping packages.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Knowledge of water depth (bathymetry) is essential to many marine activities, such as coastal and offshore engineering, environment protection, conservation and civil security. Historically, organisations have relied on paper and digital navigational charts for limited available bathymetric information or contracted their own surveys at substantial cost. SeaZone, the market leader for marine geographic information, is launching
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that registration is now open for the SmartGeometry 2011 Conference. This highly anticipated conference is the world’s premier event focused on computational and parametric design tools, technologies, and methodologies that allow and encourage new forms of architectural and
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
The Russian-English Agricultural Atlas is the world’s most comprehensive source of information on the geographic distribution of plant-based agriculture in Russia and neighboring countries. The Atlas contains 1500 maps that illustrate the distribution of 100 crops, 560 wild crop relatives, 640 diseases, pests and weeds, and 200 environmental parameters. Additionally, the Atlas provides detailed biological
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Japanese corporation Toshiba has declared interest in building two new thermal power facilities in Bulgaria’s Maritsa East TPP complex, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov has announced. Traikov was in the state-owned Maritsa East 2 plant on Monday with Japanese Ambassador to Bulgaria Makoto Ito where the two of them opened the rehabilitated unit 8 of the TPP, whose repairs were completed by Toshiba 32
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Stakeholder Forum in collaboration with BioRegional and the Earth Charter Initiative have just produced a paper which consolidates a range of principles for the green economy, building on existing agreements and also emerging recommendations. The paper hopes to contribute to the emerging debate on defining principles for the green economy to ensure that it serves
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Britain’s fledgling solar power industry is gearing up for a fight over the Government’s review of the solar subsidies scheme. The consultation setting out how the Government proposes to change the “feed-in tariff” (FIT) system for solar arrays producing 50 kilowatts (kW) or more of power could be published as early as this week. And green
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Experts met at the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Interference, Detection and Monitoring Conference 2011 in London to discuss this issue, following a report from the Royal Academy of Engineering which laid out the risks of GPS disruption. eLORAN (Enhanced Long Range Navigation) was among the most actively discussed solutions to GPS jamming.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
The GOES-11 satellite captured a stunning image of the Pacific Ocean as tsunami-generated waves move through the ocean basin. The waves were generated from this morning’s earthquake near Japan. At 0546 UTC on March 11 (12:46 a.m. EST/2:46 p.m. local time/Japan) an earthquake with the preliminary magnitude 8.9 occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
It’s considered an achievement to host the Olympics for your country, but often the host city is the least excited about the whole undertaking. The Floating Olympic Complex proposed for the Rio de Janeiro games in Brazil aims to solve the problem of later unused buildings in these incredible inverted structures. Pouring enormous amounts of money
