Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and former Secretary of the World Health Organisation has been given the US NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented at the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)’s annual National Congress in Washington, DC. Read More
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
SX5 is a project conducted by a consortium of 6 partners. It is funded by the European Union within the 7th Framework Programme and supervised by the GNSS Supervisory Authority GSA. Its main topic is the scientific exploitation of the Galileo E5 signal. An E5 receiver and a scientific software application prototype will be developed and
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The Russian state-owned oil major pays €27,7 million for control over prospective licenses in the Barents Sea. Read More
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The effort is being led from the German space agency’s (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, and had its kick-off meeting this week. It will draw on expertise from across Europe, Russia and the US. Read More
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Mannai CorporationMannai Corporation, Software Division announced that it has been selected as a Mapping & GIS business partner in Qatar for U.S. based Trimble, a leading provider of advanced positioning solutions. Combining positioning, communications and software to equip the mobile workforce, Trimble’s Mapping & GIS products improve productivity in a broad range of industries by
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
British companies are bringing their water and wastewater expertise to the UAE for exploring business opportunities and further strengthening existing commercial partnerships between the two countries. A high-level delegation of companies from the United Kingdom water and wastewater sector recently visited Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The principal focus of the mission was water and wastewater treatment
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
A few years ago, the Province of Ontario warmly embraced wind power as a way to reduce current dependence on coal and nuclear power plants. Official provincial support is still strong, although it is also starting to sound defensive. The Dunnville Chronicle reports that Ontario’s Minister of the Environment, Jim Bradley, just released a consultant’s report stating:
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
C-NAV is an international surveying and mapping firm that aims to provide high-accuracy GNSS positioning solutions to the offshore and hydrographic surveying community. The company is involved in seismic exploration, land surveying and flood mapping, geotechnical engineering and a host of other applications. Asian Surveying and Mapping editor Jeff Thurston interviewed Ed Danson of C&C Technologies’ C-Nav Division
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
The issue of poor land use planning is being left out in the current discussions on why disasters keep happening in the Philippines. According to Dr. Walter Salzer, director and principal advisor of the Environment and Rural Development Program (ERDP) of the ?Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), increasing threat of climate change and the effects of
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
The World Bank should extend the operation of a project for issuing land state acts and the development of a cadastre system in Ukraine by the end of 2012, said project director Serhiy Kubakh. “If the effect the project ends July 30, 2012, as assumed, there are risks that the work will not be completed, and
