Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The 2011 digital boundaries covering New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, are now available to download from the Statistics NZ website. Compressed in zip format, the files contain the following geographic layers: meshblock (MB), area unit (AU), urban area (UA), territorial authorities (TA), regional council (RC), wards, and community boards (CB). A key reason for the inclusion of
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – Grass-roots movements are protesting against carbon capture and storage pilot projects in various parts of Germany. Geologist Andreas Dahmke talks to SPIEGEL about the shortsightedness of the protests and why nuclear power is much more dangerous than CCS technology. Read More
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
GLOBAL TELCOM – The satellite, built by Boeing, has a 22-metre diameter reflector that is designed to allow LightSquared to provide mobile broadband service in rural areas of the US. It will be joined by SkyTerra 2 at a later date. LightSquared plans to set up a wholesale-only mobile broadband network, using conventional towers in populated areas
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
GRAPHISOFT – They’re young. They’re sharp. They’re the rising stars of architecture, and they’re appearing Thursday at Build Boston 2010. Representatives of three enterprising firms will join a panel discussion, “BIM and the Young Firm,” on Thursday, November 18, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. The session will explore how
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
With the addition of data from the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, AeroGRID is now able to provide off-the-shelf aerial photography from over 50 countries. Other recent additions to the AeroGRID online image library include coverage of major cities in Brazil, Uruguay, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and the Philippines. Much of this library is
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
As you might know, the 53rd Photogrammetric Week will take place again in Stuttgart from September 5 – 9, 2011. The Photogrammetric Week enjoys international recognition as an upgrading seminar for the disciplines Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics – this regular event was already initiated in 1909 by Carl Pulfrich. The 53rd Photogrammetric Week will be headlined
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The Ninth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 24 January to 4 February 2011. The meeting will focus on anoverall theme of “Forests for people, livelihoods and poverty eradications”; and the launch ofthe International Year of Forests (IYF 2011). Pursuant to the Economic
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Part of the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), the new railway designs are to connect some of the major cities of Ethiopia. From Mekelle up North; Galafi and Djibouti in the East; Awash and Sebeta; and Jimma down South, the 1,833.6km-long railway will be providing service to these locations. The Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC)
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – There are several reasons why Graciela Chichilnisky can claim to be an innovator. She was the architect of the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon market, the lead author on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won a Nobel Prize, and reputedly even created the term “sustainable development”. Her most recent venture is the Global Thermostat (globalthermostat.com)pilot plant
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
On 10 November 2010, the European Commission has adopted the Communication “Energy 2020 – A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy” Read More
