Saturday, October 9th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Managing climate change has become a governance issue. Consequent upon African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) commitment to both governance and climate change, the institution’s president, Donald Kaberuka, will on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, in Addis Ababa address the first plenary session of the Seventh African Development Forum (ADF-VII) on the theme: “High Level Leadership
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
CROATIA TIMES – Intensive monitoring of the Danube river near Batina village in Osijek-Baranja County has begun amid fears that the Hungarian ecological catastrophe could reach Croatia. Together with the Osijek-Baranja County Department of Public Health, the Hrvatske Vode (Croatian Waters) experts are analyzing water samples on a daily basis and will continue to do so throughout
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
SIFY – Seeing light at the end of the tunnel will be more than just a catch phrase when Swiss engineers blast through the last Alpine granite barrier Oct 15 at the Gotthard Base Tunnel – the world’s longest rail tunnel. After 25 years of planning and construction, that blast will clear the way for a scheduled
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Satellite №736 of the GLONASS orbital constellation has been commissioned on Oct. 4. The satellite was launched on Sept. 2, aboard Proton, together with the other two navigation spacecraft. Currently, GLONASS constellation comprises 26 satellites, with 18 in nominal operation, 2- to be commissioned, 4 undergoing technical maintenance, and 2 as orbital backup. Three Glonass-M’s
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
IRISH INDEPENDENT – The Metro North light-rail system linking Dublin city centre with the airport and Swords will cost €2.5bn, a third less than expected. And although the project has yet to be given the green light by government, the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) has spent €175m to date buying land, carrying out pre-construction work
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Minister of the Environment Paula Lehtomäki (Centre) urges that the removal of nitrogen from wastewater be intensified in all parts of the country, as it causes eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. At present, the requirements are rather modest in many places. ”In coastal areas the removal of nitrogen has already been enhanced, but the same standards
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Mr. Florian Neisser, Geographer at the University of Bonn, has finalized his research on the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal as “An Interactive Platform to Foster Space Technology Utilization in Disaster Management”. His thesis addresses the problem of a communication gap between the space technology and the disaster management community by applying the Actor-Network Theory and analyzing
Friday, October 8th, 2010
East View Cartographic (EVC) has been chosen by GeoEye to produce high quality Digital Elevation Models (DEM) derived from GeoEye-1 and IKONOS stereo imagery. “For several years, customers around the world have benefited from East View Cartographic’s imagery relationship with GeoEye. GeoEye’s choice of EVC to handle high resolution DEM creation from their imagery is a
Friday, October 8th, 2010
VisionMap Ltd announced today the availability of its newest product, the A3 CIR large format digital camera. A3 CIR (color-IR) provides near-infrared imagery (NIR) in combination with high resolution color imagery. The new product leverages A3’s well known superior collection efficiency as well as the complimentary fully automated workflow provided by the A3 Processing System. In
Friday, October 8th, 2010
e-on software, the leader in Digital Nature solutions today announced the immediate availability of a free Open Beta of Carbon Scatter, the company’s instancing plugin for the mental ray™ and V-Ray™ renderers for 3DS Max. Carbon Scatter is the most simple and straightforward solution for creating complex and detailed populations using the native instancing technologies of
