Sunday, July 11th, 2010
NATURE – The first satellite-derived map of global soil moisture has been unveiled today at the Living Planet Symposium, an Earth-observation conference being held this week in Bergen, Norway. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission — part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) extended ‘living planet’ programme on Earth observation — was launched
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
CBC – Young people who constantly swap and share personal information through networks today are likely to value sharing over privacy even as they age, technology watchers predict. Two-thirds of 895 technology experts and stakeholders surveyed about the future of the internet believe the millennial generation, born mainly in the 1980s and 1990s, will make
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Bob Gilligan, vice president, GE’s Digital Energy business, issued this statement today about how the heat wave in the northeastern U.S. underscores the need for the country to invest in smart grid technologies: “As record-breaking temperatures in the northeastern United States have consumers turning up their air conditioners, our overburdened electric grid is taking center
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
The Canwest News Service reports that, “A coalition of organizations began a campaign Thursday urging Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner not to introduce legislation that would establish a province-wide water market. Read More
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Marine Environmental Remote-controlled Measuring And Integrated Detection – an international team of scientists and engineers developed automatic sensors and analyzers, mounted on a network of radio-controlled stations, to sample, measure and record chemical and biological changes to water. The project later became one of the cornerstones of the intergovernmental GOOS, Global Ocean Observing System. Read
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
LISAsoft is pleased to introduce its newest team member, Byron Cochrane, who is based in Auckland. LISAsoft sees opportunities for long-term growth and development within the New Zealand market. LISAsoft is involved in the creation and implementation of open standards through our relationship with the OGC, or Open Geospatial Consortium, which governs the standards for
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
This paper summarises the findings from the recent research and identifies the economic value of geospatial information in local public service delivery at regional and national level in 2009 and 2015, benefits of geospatial information and the current barriers and opportunities to making better use of the information. Read More
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The ePSIplatform has published the 10th in a series of Topic Reports on PSI Re-use and Open Data topics. Title: PSI Re-use in France: Overview and Recent Developments Author: Ruth Martinez, General Delegate, GFII (Groupement Français de l’Industrie de l’Information) Publication Date: 5 July 2010 This latest report is a briefing with reflections and an overview on
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The European Commission (EC) Joint research Centre INSPIRE information platform has published the Krakow INSPIRE Declaration. The declaration states: “Krakow Declaration on INSPIRE approved at the Closing Session of the Conference “INSPIRE as a framework for cooperation”, 23-25 June, 2010 In total 670 scientists, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs, managers, administrators, and representatives of civil societies from 50 countries
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI) has informed the European Public Sector Information platform on the latest developments made in the eSDI-NETplus project and released a press release titled: Spatial Data Infrastructures exchange experiences at the INSPIRE Conference 2010. “EUROGI announce that the final consortium meeting of eSDI-NETplus took place in Krakow in the week of
