Friday, February 17th, 2012
The inaugural NT Spatial Excellence Awards will be presented at the NT Spatial 2012 conference dinner on the 22nd March at the Darwin Convention Centre. The goal of the awards is to recognise and promote the achievements and excellence of those in the surveying and spatial sciences. There are a variety of categories for individual and project based
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Stanford University’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in Menlo Park, California, was the venue for an international meeting held February 6–8 and organized by the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) secretariat to address the data and information needs of the
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has pledged IMO’s support for the Philippines in all facets of the country’s maritime development. In wide-ranging talks in Manila with Philippines’ President Benigno S. Aquino III, as well as the country’s Secretaries for Foreign Affairs, Transport and Communication, and Labour and Employment, Mr Sekimizu expressed his appreciation for the efforts made
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Dozens of ships are waiting on ice escort at the entrance to the Kerch Strait and at the Azov Sea. ScanEx RDC in behalf of the EMERECOM of Russia carries out a combination of optical and radar imagery used to both analyze the ice situation and to detect ships. For ships identification signals from the
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
With funding from NOAA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), they have developed a modelling system that NOAA will use to generate ET estimates over the continental United States. NOAA will evaluate these ET products to see how well they work for operational hydrologic and meteorological modeling. One application of the remotely sensed
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Information in sensitive health records could be used for better health planning, but opponents argue patients should have greater control over who accesses their files. Read More
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Launched to mark the 50 th anniversary of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the first collaborative photographic inventory of representations of space in the public space using the Geoportal API for geolocation. Cosmothropos is a photography project to inventory the collective representations of space or references to space in public spaces. He invited as many to engage in
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has announced that the Norwegian Government intends to start additional seismic surveys further north in the previously disputed area of the Barents Sea. Stoltenberg made the announcement in a speech to the Oslo Energy Forum on Wednesday evening. Seismic surveys will start this summer and will continue into 2013. Read More
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Sistema JSFC (“Sistema”) (LSE:SSA), the largest diversified public financial corporation in Russia and the CIS, today announces that it has increased its stake in OJSC Navigation Information Systems (“NIS”) from 51% to 70% through an acquisition of an additional issue of NIS’ shares. Sistema paid for the shares by contributing its 51% stake in M2M
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets are pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Hird as their new Managing Director. Now in his tenth year with the company, Andy started as Professional Services Manager, adding the Software Development portfolio in 2009. During that time he has been recognised as driving forward the high standards that has earned Aligned
