Monday, January 30th, 2012
What is unique about travelling to congresses is having exclusive tours of local facilities. These on-site visits also give you a chance to do in-depth networking with like-minded professionals. There are four tours available for Friday 21 September.
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Don’t miss the beautiful city of Rome. The registration for the FIG Working Week has now opened. Please note that until 21 February 2012 you can register at the Early Bird rate. The registration fee includes participation in the General Assembly (6 and 10 May), three conference days (7-9 May) lunches, coffees, exhibition and an extraordinary welcoming
Monday, January 30th, 2012
The inaugural NT Spatial Excellence Awards will be presented at the NT Spatial 2012 conference dinner on the 22nd March at the Darwin Convention Centre. The goal of the awards is to recognise and promote the achievements and excellence of those in the surveying and spatial sciences. There are a variety of categories for individual and project based
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation is the 7th edition of a popular cartographic reference for professional and student use. This edition includes a focus upon the interpretation of maps and the information within them. Map accuracy and learning how to read maps is also included. The ability to read and understand what a map is
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
This week the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. While much of the discussion is focused upon economic policy development, the technological and conceptual linkages that contribute to economic growth and wealth are not always clear. Geospatial and geomatics technologies not only create and contribute to the underlying infrastructure and processes that
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
U.S. government agencies are working together to look for ways to reduce the cost of future Landsat missions as a result of congressional direction included in the 2012 budget passed in December. “Although Congress has provided $2 million to the U.S. Geological Service for Landsat 9 program development, they have also requested that the Administration
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Maxim Integrated Products announces that its G3-PLC(TM) protocol has been approved by the International telecommunications Union (ITU) as a new low-frequency, OFDM-based narrowband powerline communications (NB-PLC) standard. Read More
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Steno is famous for his ‘principle of original horizontality’ – the theory that rocks are formed in horizontal layers. From this, he concluded that unless they have been disturbed, the bottom layers are the oldest. In his time, this was revolutionary thinking. Read More
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve celebrates World Wetlands Day on 4 Feb 2012! The World Wetlands Day theme for 2012 is Wetlands and Tourism. Wetland tourism has benefits for people and wildlife in areas such as stronger economies, healthy people, quality of life and thriving ecosystems. Read More
