Friday, July 16th, 2010
UNESCO – The European Space Agency (ESA) in the context of the Committee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) started the TIGER initiative as a concrete action following the resolutions of the World Submit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg. The initiative aims at assisting African countries to overcome problems faced in the collection, analysis and
Friday, July 16th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – Amsterdam’s metro system is to be closed between central station and Amstel station for almost five weeks for maintenance, but no work will actually be carried out, the Parool reports on Thursday. The tunnel was scheduled to be closed to allow contractors to improve fire safety, but a dispute over the contract
Friday, July 16th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The two Murmansk registered oil tankers Varzuga and Indiga are right now on their way through the partly ice-covered Northern Sea Route on their way to Chukotka in Russia’s Far East. The Arctic shipping season 2010 is closely followed by the world’s shipping interests as global warming makes the sea ice retreat in
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Please join us for this one hour webinar to learn about all of the new features and functionality available in the IDL 8.0 release. With the latest release you will find major IDL language enhancements that will streamline your analysis and application development tasks. You will also have access to an entirely new graphics system that is very powerful yet
Friday, July 16th, 2010
ENGLAND NORTHWEST – A Manchester-based data centre provider is to invest £2 million in expanding its overall site capacity. UK Grid, which also has a centre in London, has already started to expand its Science Park in Manchester. The firm is currently installing an extra 170 racks of data storage space as part of the first
Friday, July 16th, 2010
The fall of the Berlin wall and the subsequent enlargement of the European Union eastward presented special opportunities for the two cities which had lost their hinterland after the second world war: Berlin and Vienna. Time had come to reconnect ancient ties and build an integrated future for central Europe. Schwechat, a municipality adjacent to
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
MORNING STAR – Beijing is set to invest £6.5 billion in Argentina’s rail system after visiting Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez signed a series of economic co-operation agreements in Beijing on Tuesday. The railway deals included a £1.64bn project to upgrade Buenos Aires’s railway, the electrification of rail lines and the construction of a light rail
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Autodesk has announced that MapGuide Enterprise 2011 and Topobase Web 2011 have been certified as compliant with the the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) v1.1.1. Read More
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The REDD+ Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE) is a tool for classifying and prioritizing potential REDD+ sub-national activities and for assessing critical constraints to project development, especially those associated with the legal, political, and institutional framework for carbon finance. The ROSE tool was developed and refined during 2009 in the course of conducting case studies in
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) of Oxford University and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new poverty measure that gives a “multidimensional” picture of people living in poverty which its creators say could help target development resources more effectively. Read
