Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Perm State National Research University will become the venue on Monday February 14, 2011 for the opening of the Interregional Space Monitoring Center of Perm Territory. The center is supposed to enable to receive and process operational data from satellites and to conduct multilateral research work on the territory in order to provide comprehensive, up-to-date and unbiased
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Upon request of MIRA (Environment Report), Transport & Mobility Leuven calculated the private costs, the marginal external costs and the degree of internalisation for transport in Flanders. The private costs are the costs for the user and the external costs are the costs for society caused by congestion, direct emissions, accidents, noise, and damage to
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
A decade after heavy floods wrecked havoc in Southern Africa, the region is better prepared to monitor and respond to seasonal flooding. This is thanks as much to the growing strength of transboundary institutions as it is to technical improvements. Read More
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The two day’s stakeholder consultations to develop the framework for strengthening biodiversity conservation programs and initiating action for assessing the economic value of India’s natural capital begins here on Thursday. It aims to recognize, demonstrate, capture and optimize the value of biodiversity and ecosystem service and targets policy actions at national and state levels, improvements in
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The receiver features 29 second cold start TTFF, -159dBm navigation sensitivity, -145dBm cold starting sensitivity, and 250mW power consumption; offering best-in-class performance among GLONASS/GPSreceivers on the market. The S4554GNS-LP is capable of operating in 12 tracking channel GPS-only mode, 12 tracking channel GLONASS-only mode, and 24 tracking channel GLONASS + GPS mode. It is ideal for
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Broadcom announces two new system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions with support for GLONASS (the Russian Navigation Satellite System), in addition to GPS, marking the first cost-effective, commercially-available, single die SoC solutions that support both GLONASS and GPS simultaneously.
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The classic census kicked off 8 am Thursday in Bulgaria, after over three million people took part in the first ever online census in the country. The traditional census will continue until 8 pm on February 28. It will include 40,000 census takers. On average, one census taker is expected to visit about 200-250 people
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The government will spend £2.1bn on flooding defences in England over the next four years – a cut of 8% from previous periods, Environment Minister Richard Benyon has told MPs. The money will go towards 108 projects already under construction and 187 schemes under consideration. But projects in Leeds, York, Thirsk and Morpeth have been
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
We warmly welcome you to the FIG2011 Working Week which will take place in Marrakech, Morocco. The overall theme of the FIG Working Week 2011 is “Bridging the Gap between Cultures”. As always, the Working Week will gather international professionals and academia members from the fields of land surveying, land and real-estate appraisal, GIS, spatial planning, environmental awareness,
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Ordnance Survey has joined forces with Southampton City Council to celebrate over 160 years of history between the map makers and the city with an exhibition at the Maritime Museum. Ordnance Survey In Southampton: Mapping Great Britain Since 1791 celebrates not only a long association between the national mapping agency and the city of Southampton, but
