Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Another week, another serious flood – monsoonal rains in Sri Lanka have displaced around 320,000 people in recent days. The deluge comes in the wake of other floods in Brazil, the Philippines and Australia, all since the turn of the year. And as La Niña settles in for the decade, floods are expected more frequently. Monitoring those
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says it is crucial that the sensitive environment in the Arctic is protected.With the move, Sweden follows Norway and Finland by initiating a national strategy for the Arctic region. Carl Bildt surprised the Parliament in Stockholm on Wednesday when he announced that the Government will present a Swedish Arctic strategy in spring
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of households are having to separate their rubbish into seven or more different bins, according to a new survey, that reveals a postcode lottery for waste collection across Britain. Read More
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
A leading geospatial industry group is championing Linked Data as the key to easier sharing of the UK’s location-based information. The Digital National Framework (DNF) Expert Group is to align its core strategy with the ongoing development of the emerging universal web standard for connecting all kinds of data. The group, an independent forum of data providers,
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Prior to the forthcoming European Regional Conference, well established agricultural advisory research information networks and new communication platforms are planned to be set up and customized based on more advaced information management technologies during the course of the three days event, in support of educational, research, food and nutrition and other expert fields.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Following several successful Agritechnica editions, the 2011exhibition again features an International Dealer Centre sponsored by the DLG, CLIMMAR (an international partner organisation) and the German association for Dealers (LandBauTechnik-Bundesverband, previously HAG).
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
MeteoIO is a C++ library whose main design goals are: providing meteorological data format/protocol independent data access; providing safe and robust I/O; making I/O code as unobtrusive and simple as possible for the user; providing ready to use data to the user (transparent caching, filtering, resampling, and spatial interpolation); enabling unattended use from an I/O
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Renowned space scientist and former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) U.R. Rao on Tuesday advocated the use of satellite technology to boost agricultural productivity and harness solar energy to the maximum. Read More
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
MWH Soft today announced the worldwide availability of the V7 Generation of InfoSewer for ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA) platform. InfoSewer has helped define the standard in the industry for GIS-centric sanitary sewer network modeling and design since 2003. This seventh version of the software introduces key enhancements requested by customers that increase engineering productivity; improve
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
A damning report published today by the country’s public spending watchdog has uncovered an alarming decline in the nation’s roads over the past six years. Councils and national roads agency Transport Scotland have been blamed for failing to carry out essential repairs when the economy was in a healthy state, and report publisher Audit Scotland has
