Monday, November 15th, 2010
Planar Systems, Inc. announced the latest addition to its 3D stereoscopic product line. Leveraging six years of expertise in manufacturing 3D monitors with the highest stereoscopic image quality available, Planar is launching the new SA2311W 3D ready desktop monitor. Planar’s SA2311W 3D display will offer a single monitor entrée for the consumer market and an
Monday, November 15th, 2010
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) enables organizations to report green house gas (GHG) emissions and their strategies for addressing climate change. 3,000 organizations in 60 countries report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through the CDP. Read More
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
The 5th International 3D GeoInfo Conference was held in Berlin, Germany on November 3-4, 2010. The event included a wide range of speakers from government, industry and educational research who are involved in the use and application of 3D geospatial technologies and development. Held at the Technical University in the center of the city, the event
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
SWEDISH SPACE CORP – ESA’s Earth-observing satellite Envisat has moved to a lower orbit in order to conserve fuel and extend its life by three years. This means three more years of satellite operations at the ESA Satellite Station at Salmijarvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden. Read More
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Thanks to a unique joint initiative by observatories, research institutes in and around Europe a broad set of seismological data is becoming available. Within NERIES, the seismic portal has been developed as a single point of access to diverse, distributed European datasets, and is now, after an experimental phase, available for general use at www.seismicportal.eu The
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
The Stevens GOES HDR (high data rate) Transmitter (Model GHT) provides access to the NOAA/NESDIS GOES Data Collection System (DCS) and the EUMETSAT / METEOSAT Data Collection System for Stevens or third party data loggers and sensors deployed in environmental monitoring and data acquisition applications. Read More
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
“Geohazard Supersites” is a an initiative in the sprit of GEO, providing access to spaceborne and in-situ geophysical data (multi-sensor SAR, GPS, seismic, etc.) addressing earthquake, volcano, and other hazards. The space component of the initiative is led by ESA and NASA; easy access to Earth science data will promote their use and advance scientific
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
ARAB NETWORK – Eng. Abdulqadir bin Ahmed al Hadad, Deputy Head of Dhofar Municipality and member of Oman Environmental Services Holding Company’s Board pointed out that awarding this vital project by the government, represented by the company comes to complete efforts targeting the protection of public health aspects in the community. Read More
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – At least one in five of the companies using the largest amounts of waterin the world is already experiencing damage to their business from drought and other shortages, flooding, and rising prices. The wide scope of commercial problems posed by growing pressure on global water supplies and changing weather patterns is revealed by a survey of the
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Millions more people across Asia will become food insecure due to increased water scarcities, reinforcing the need for greater efficiency in both irrigated and rain-fed rice production. “The food security of hundreds of millions of people will be adversely affected,” Robert Zeigler, director-general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) told IRIN on the sidelines of
