Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Energy Minister Charles Hendry has said the eastern region is well placed to take advantage of the growing demand for new and off-shore energy. “In nuclear, carbon capture and storage and renewable energy, East Anglia has an extremely important role to play,” stated Mr Hendry. Read More
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Velosi has announced an association with India’s premier institution IIT Bombay, to offer IIT Bombay’s four-month Online Certificate Course in Piping Engineering. This course is relevant to engineers working in diverse sectors like petroleum refining and downstream processing, manufacturing of fertilisers and chemicals, power plants (thermal, nuclear as well as gas-based), ship building, cross-country pipeline
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The imager is light and small enough to be carried and operated even in remote, hard to access, and cluttered environments. Yet, it is ruggedized for use under demanding environmental conditions and excels at capturing completely dark scenes without emitting visible light or sound. It is a fast 3D acquisition system that allows capturing and processing
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
In the last ten years, scientists have shown that it is possible to detect falling snow and measure surface snowpack information from the vantage point of space. But there remains much that is unknown about the fluffy white stuff. Read More
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Two new staff appointments have been made recently in CIESIN’s Science Applications Division. Sylwia Trzaska, a climate scientist specializing in climate variability and change in Africa and other developing regions, has joined CIESIN as an associate research scientist, effective January 16. She is helping to lead a project on African and Latin American resilience to
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
ForestSAT 2012 is the 5th in a series of international conferences promoting scientifically based understanding of how spatial analysis technologies can help describe and monitor forested systems. ForestSAT 2012 will be held on the Oregon State University campus in beautiful Corvallis (Oregon, USA) and is the first ForestSAT outside of western Europe. Previous conferences were held in Spain
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
A new charity to look after England and Wales’ network of 200-year old canals and rivers will be given over £1 billion of Government help to give it the best possible start, Environment Minister Richard Benyon, announced today. This unprecedented funding for a new charity paves the way for the launch of the new Canal &
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The record funding of 333.5 million UAH have been provided from the State Budget of Ukraine for 2012 for the implementation of land reform. For comparison, in 2011 it was allocated 9.2 million UAH, the Chairman of the State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine Sergiy Tymchenko announced at a press conference. Read More
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The INSPIRE and Environment: Enlargement and Integration Action Workshop will take place during the INSPIRE Conference 2012 on 25th June 2012 in Istanbul. The workshop is addressed to environmental communities of the West-Balkan region and Turkey to transmit the experiences and the lessons learnt in SDI implementation in the in fields of land administration, cadastral and topographic mapping
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
TECTERRA is the Titanium Sponsor for the GGC conference which will be Canada’s largest geospatial conference and trade show of 2012. Orgnanized by top geospatial associations including, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE), in collaboration with the Universite Laval and the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), the GGC will combine
