Friday, January 28th, 2011
The Soil Protection Service is responsible for the soil protection policy in Flanders. The Soil Protection Service focuses its activities on the protection of the soil against damage resulting from erosion, landslides, loss of organic matter, compaction and loss of basic soil functions. Soil erosion mainly occurs in the southern part of Flanders, where silty to
Friday, January 28th, 2011
The European commission’s emergency suspension last week of trading in carbon allowances to put a halt to rampant theft of credits by hackers has been extended indefinitely until countries can prove their systems are protected from further fraud. While the suspension had been expected to end last night, Brussels now says that the freeze in
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Not so in Italy, where politicians seem to be much more committed to the idea. At the beginning of this year, ambitious projects aimed at creating citywide W-LAN launched in two locations. Now, both Rome and Florence are wired with wireless. Capital city Rome has taken on the role of pioneer. In mid-January, politicians from the
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Save the Date! Mark your calendars for this year’s 9th Annual Latin American Leadership Forum, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, May 4-6, 2011. Meet with 50 of the top infrastructure developers in Latin America, pre-schedule private meetings, sign-up for workshops, and join over 500 top executives who want to build long-term competitiveness and opportunity
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Bunkspeed, a leading provider of 3D rendering and animation software for the design and creative industry, today introduced the Bunkspeed® Cloud Solution at Solidworks World 2011 in San Antonio. The Bunkspeed Cloud Solution, including Bunkspeed SHOT Pro™, leverages NVIDIA® GPUs to enable to publish photorealistic scenes or 3D content to the Web for real time
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The Crop Protection Association has welcomed this week’s launch of the Global Food and Farming Futures Foresight report in highlighting the urgency of the food security challenge. CPA is emphasising the need – and its own plans – to convey the report’s key messages to EU policy-makers as further compelling evidence of how advances in science
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
For a province which loves its cars and trucks, Alberta is receiving close attention from Canadian rail manufacturer Bombardier Transportation. The province and its two biggest cities are considering multibillion-dollar investments in rail transportation, a fact not lost on North American president Raymond Bachant, whose Quebec-based company supplies commuter trains, light rail vehicles and electric locomotives
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The cabinet is expected to give the nod later this year to the multibillion-rand high-speed rail network proposed as part of the National Transport Master Plan (Natmap), which is intended to cut congestion on the country’s roads and the cost of public transport. A transport industry fundi said yesterday that the Natmap, which has the potential
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Satellite monitoring of ice situation during freeze-up period on the rivers of the northern part of Russia and Siberia is ongoing. ScanEx RDC has been acquiring space images starting December 20, 2010 in behalf of regional administrations and river basin authorities using own distributed network of receiving centers in Moscow, Irkutsk, Megion and Magadan.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The RapidEye constellation of five earth observation satellites have been focused on the East Coast of Australia, dedicating resources to capture valuable images of the ever-changing face of our flooding landscape. The readily enhanced RapidEye satellite data has been of interest to a range of Government agencies in recent weeks. Currently, the movement of the Loddon
