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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

LINZ Data Service is ‘go’

IMServ, a leading carbon and energy consultancy and part of Invensys Operation Management, has won its biggest ever contract with BT, the UK’s largest telecoms provider. IMServ has been working with BT for the last nine years and the contract renewal follows a competitive tender process. The five year contract comprises the collection of data relating

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

New Final Version of gvSIG Available: gvSIG 1.10

The main new features of gvSIG 1.10 are Sextante 0.6 (GRASS 6.4 interface included) and NavTable extensions integration, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 compatibility. Another new features of this version are: – gvSIG 1.9 bug fixes – Binaries compilation for JVM 1.6 (with JVM 1.5 compatibility) – Pie and bar chart legend – Relative

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Germany Featured in Top 100 Global Infrastructure Projects

CG/LA Infrastructure LLC, the world leader in infrastructure project identification, announced last week the release of its annual list of the Top 100 Global Infrastructure Projects and this year’s list includes key infrastructure from Germany.  The total estimated value of the identified projects approaches US$550 billion. The Top 100 List is released prior to the 4th

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

German Wetlands Are Increasingly Yielding to Agriculture

DER SPIEGEL – Even as Berlin demands that developing countries preserve their rainforests, the country is doing little for biodiversity back home. Bogs and marshland in Germany are increasingly yielding to corn farming — resulting in the release of huge quantities of CO2. Read More

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Broadband Coming Wirelessly to the Bush

CSIRO – A major CSIRO breakthrough in wireless technology designed to bring broadband to people living beyond the optical fibre network, will be unveiled in Sydney tomorrow. Read More

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Opportunity for Trainees, European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON)

ESPON is a network providing European observation and evidence on territorial development and cohesion. The activities are implemented as a programme under the Structural Funds 2007-2013 and the objective of European territorial cooperation. The mission is to enhance European knowledge, data and indicators on territorial structures, trends, perspectives and impacts of sector policies which can meet policy demand related to

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

25% Discount Extended on IDRISI Taiga

We’re extending our 25% discount promotion until November 15th! This gives you two more weeks to save hundreds on your IDRISI Taiga software! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity. Read More

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Capacity Building Workshop on Carbon Governance in Asia: Bridging Scales and Disciplines

Pathways of regional development are sequences of interrelated changes in social, economic, and governance systems. They vary from place to place and over time, in ways that are likely to have different net consequences for carbon stocks and fluxes, which in turn may constrain or in other ways feed back upon development processes. Thus, the

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Ecosystem Marketplace’s Forest Carbon News Summary

Last Friday in Nagoya, Japan, policymakers convened from around the world concluded the tenth Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Although biodiversity conservation has been widely-touted as a REDD “co-benefit,” efforts to link up aid from developed countries under the biodiversity convention and a REDD mechanism under the

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Australia – 2010-11 Business Plan Successful Projects

The Australian Government has approved more than $241 million in Caring for our Country funding to protect the Australian landscape and help ensure our farmlands remain viable into the future. The funding includes: $181 million in base level funding for 56 regional natural resource management organisations around Australia more than $60 million for 168 competitive open

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