Friday, February 17th, 2012
For many years solar energy was only profitable because of state subsidies. But photovoltaic cell prices recently dropped significantly, making solar energy as cheap as standard electricity. Developments on the international solar electricity market are proceeding at a rapid pace. These days a solar cell costs just half of what it did four years ago. Solar
Friday, February 17th, 2012
The U.S., Canada and four other countries have formed a coalition aimed reducing powerful but relatively short-lived pollutants in an effort to bring about near-term results in the battle against climate change. The plan targeting methane, hydrofluorbcarbons and black carbons is viewed as a strategy that could gain more ground, and do so more swiftly, than international
Friday, February 17th, 2012
The UK is to sign a deal with France to strengthen co-operation in the development of civil nuclear energy. The government says it reiterates the UK’s commitment to nuclear energy “as part of a diversified energy mix”. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Kalypso is an open source application for geospatial modelling and simulation. It is primarily developed to be a user friendly tool for GIS-based modelling and simulation of hydrological and hydraulic numerical models. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Yesterday we tweeted that we were hearing concerns about the recently signed deal between Google and the World Bank that will allow the Bank to provide Google’s Map Maker platform to governments and multilaterals around the world. We’ve dug around a little more and our concerns haven’t dissipated: this is a big deal and could
Friday, February 17th, 2012
jQuery Geo, an open-source geospatial mapping project from Applied Geographics, provides a streamlined JavaScript API for a large percentage of your online mapping needs. Whether you just want to display a map on a wep page as quickly as possible or you are a more advanced GIS user, jQuery Geo can help! This project is considered
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Cybercrimes can be defined as offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
To create the map I used open data from several online sources. I downloaded bathymetry data from NOAA, bouys and channel data from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, and some road and point of interest data from OpenStreetMap. I needed several tools to work with the data and create the map. To manipulate the raster
Friday, February 17th, 2012
On February 13 the Moscow-based UniScan ground station of ScanEx RDC received the image of the Gulf of Finland, acquired by SPOT 4 satellite. The ice situation in the Gulf of Finland poses no threats to ships navigation. Current situation with ice-breaker escorting in Eastern part of the Gulf of Finland is considered by the
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Z/I Imaging is pleased to announce the release of its Z/I Software version 6.4. Z/I Sensor Software includes a suite of products for the DMC and DMC II camera families for raw image data post processing, distributed processing, digital image enhancement, in-field data copy and real time image quality control. Read More
