Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
The Program on Forests (PROFOR) is dedicated to supporting timely, in-depth forests policy analysis, research and processes that support the following goals: improving people’s livelihoods; enhancing forest governance and law enforcement; financing sustainable forest management; and coordinating forest policy with other sectors. Its June newsletter highlights a number of exciting learning and capacity building events,
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
The Europe Union has been actively engaged in spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for many years. Author Ian Masser wrote about the earliest efforts in the first edition of this book. Since that time the EU INSPIRE Directive has come into law and is being implemented across Member states. This book updates the previous work and
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Get up to $29,000 for your trade in of old competitive machine control systems and get the latest and greatest from Topcon. This offer cannot be combined with any other promotion. A limited time opportunity!! This offer will expire on August 27, 2010. Read More
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Jason Spaletta of Lodi, Calif., has been named western regional sales manager for Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA). In his new role, Spaletta will be in charge of sales in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Before joining Topcon, Spaletta had been territory sales manager for AutoFarm, a manufacturer of machine control technology in the
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
GeoMax announce the release of the all new GeoMax Zoom30 and Zoom20 total station series. With these two new series GeoMax now offers an even wider range of total stations for the surveying, construction and mapping industry. Designed in Switzerland and manufactured in our facilities the GeoMax Zoom30 and Zoom20 series “works when you do”.
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
EROS A/B satellites delivered images of over 150 Russian towns in the first half of 2010. The images were taken first of all of regional centers and small settlements. The archive of ScanEx RDC operating with EROS A/B in direct reception mode is replenished with cloud-free detailed images of Adler, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Belgorod, Biysk, Volgograd,
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
TEKES FINLAND – The replacement value of electricity distribution networks in Finland is about EUR 15 billion and annual investment in them is some EUR 550 million. Current investment is already oriented towards future needs, such as real-time data and grid flexibility. “Most of our electricity networks were built in the 1960s and 1970s. The
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
EL MUNDO SPAIN – The Governing Council approved the Community of Madrid on Thursday declared as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) 83,000 hectares located in the southwest region, which accounts for 10% of it. The announcement was made by the president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre and the minister of Environment, Housing
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Government says it will continue to focus on achieving sustainable economic growth and alleviating poverty to consolidate the strong achievements registered in the last 10 years of reconstruction of the economy. Despite the impact of the global financial crisis, Rwanda’s economy has been resilient growing by 6 percent last year. Ministry of
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – Video surveillance cameras have been installed in public and private places all over Israel and around the world to monitor crimes and accidents and to promote security around the clock. But going over the reams of images takes a great deal of manpower and is very time consuming.Now Hebrew University researchers have
