Sunday, November 28th, 2010
At the Pleanry Assembly of the Heads of Government in Trieste Croatia took over the presidency for 2011 and 2012. Hans Niessl received the Alps-Adriatic-Award. In the course of the Plenary Assembly of the Heads of Government of the Alps-Adriatic Working Community in Trieste on November 22nd 2010, Renzo Tondo, president of the Autonomous Region Friuli
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
SWISSINFO – The maps, covering about 2,000 themes, can be viewed in either two or three dimensions. One innovation is the 3-D prism map, where two themes can be combined in one statistical overview. The new version is the third to appear on DVD. It includes many new themes from the areas of transport, energy and communications
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
COPENHAGEN POST – Danish state oil company Nordsøfonden has teamed up with Polish oil company PGNiG to start drilling a test well between in southern Jutland between the towns of Aabenraa and Sønderborg. PGNiG last autumn examined the underground in the area and based on a detailed 3D map created from the results, it has concluded that
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
BELFAST TELEGRAPH – They are the architectural treasures you glimpse out of the corner of your eye as you’re driving through the countryside or walking through town. But hundreds of them are being allowed to fall into ruin. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS) has listed its ‘dirty dozen’ — the worst of the more than 500 once-beautiful buildings
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Finmeccanica and Russian Railways (RZD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Rome for industrial programmes in the areas of railway signalling, telecommunications, automation and safety & security. The agreement relates to the supply of technology for 100 stations, 100 vehicles and 50 railway lines by 2020 for a combined value that could be up
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
A conference entitled Joint urban remote sensing event – JURSE 2011′ will take place on 11 and 13 April 2011 in Munich, Germany. A continuously increasing amount of multiple sensory data offers opportunities to address new questions and solve existing problems more effectively in urban remote sensing. To exploit the full potential these diverse data sources offer,
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
ARABIAN BUSINESS – The UAE likes to set records, but some firsts are not as glorious as others. These include having the number-two highest carbon footprint, the number-two highest electricity consumption per capita (in Abu Dhabi) and the number-one highest ecological footprint. “I think a lot of this is caused by the lack of a real
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
COASTWEEK – The Africa Water Atlas uses hundreds of “before and after” shots, detailed new maps and satellite images from 53 countries to show the problems facing Africa’s water supplies, such as the drying of Lake Chad and the erosion of the Nile Delta, as well as new, successful methods of conserving water. Read More
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Senator Edgardo J. Angara said that the establishment of the Disaster Science Management Center (DSMC) should be a national priority in order to better prepare the nation for the dealing with the multiple disasters that hit the country. “We need the DSMC to help us prepare for the typhoons and similar disasters that will continue to
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
The Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Pune Chapter, will organise a national symposium on Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics in Infrastructure Development & Management from November 29 to December 4. The event will be held at Sinhagad College of Science, Pune, and Sinhagad Technical Education Society, Lonavala. Read More
