Sunday, July 25th, 2010
SMART METERS – New Brunswick Power’s electricity demonstration project, PowerShift Atlantic, will receive over $15 million through the Government of Canada’s Clean Energy Fund to help underwrite the $32 project. The smart grid initiative, which includes three Maritime Provinces, was announced by Keith Ashfield, Minister of National Revenue. Read More
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
ARIZONA SUN – Whoever said that the states are the laboratories of democracy certainly got it right, at least when it comes to energy policy. While Washington dithers over how to hold coal-fired power plants accountable for all the CO2 they emit for free into a rapidly warming atmosphere, states like Arizona are tweaking tax
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
OANA – Iran plans to launch a remote sensing satellite in the near future, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday during a speech at a youth festival in Tehran Ahmadinejad said that Iran will send the first Iranian astronaut into space by Iranian calendar year 1398 (March 2019-March 2020). Iran originally planned to launch
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
BBC – The potentially toxic bloom, covering 377,000 sq km, could pose a risk to marine life in the region, warn scientists. They added that a lack of wind and prolonged high temperatures had triggered the largest bloom since 2005. The affected area stretches from Finland in the north to parts of Germany and Poland
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
EO – Severe and persistent drought held southern Russia in its grip in June and July 2010. Low rainfall and hot temperatures damaged 32 percent of the country’s grain crops, said Russian Agriculture Minister, Yelena Skrynnik on July 23. This satellite vegetation index image, made from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Plan4all is a European project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus. The main aim of the project is to harmonise spatial planning data and related metadata according to the INSPIRE principles. The Plan4all project should contribute to the standardisation in the field of spatial data from spatial planning point of view. Its activities and results will
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
NEW JERSEY STATE – For more than 20 years New Jersey Future has championed this cause, advancing state planning and the State Development and Redevelopment Plan as the best way to guide where and how New Jersey adds new residents and businesses in the future. Recent economic conditions and the continued loss of open space
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
CENTRE FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS – “If we look at the Indian scene and look at the actions being taken by state and central governments, it’s a little bit difficult to understand why it is so difficult to get strong legislation passed domestically in the United States,” said Arabinda Misrah, director of the Climate Change Division
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
SIFY – India is not meeting its infrastructure development targets and needs to rework its strategy of implementing mega projects, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Saturday while addressing the country’s top policy forum. ‘The state of infrastructure in the country is not good enough to achieve 9-10 percent growth over a sustained basis. We
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
This week we learned how to import a .txt file of raw LiDAR point data into ArcMap, convert the data into a raster image in ArcMap and transfer that image back into ERDAS. This wasn’t so hard; the difficult parts for me in the challenge part of the lab were – Read More
