Saturday, June 26th, 2010
ARAB NEWS – The award was given by the Secretariat for Economic and Social Affairs, an affiliate of the UN. The prize is the highest recognition of e-services. The KSU, which was founded by King Saud in 1957, is the first Saudi university to achieve this distinction, SPA said. Read More
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Qatar yesterday became the 147th and newest member of the International Renewable Energy Agency, with more countries expected to sign up.In the opulent surroundings of the capital’s Fairmont Bab Al Bahr hotel, Dr Mohammed Saleh al Sada, the minister of state for energy and industry affairs, signed the Irena statute on behalf
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
L’EXPRESS FRANCE – The Commission has postponed consideration of the proposed carbon tax … better to bury it? The reaction of Chantal Jouanno, Secretary of State for Ecology. Read More
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
In Nova Scotia, we believe the environment and the economy can thrive together. We believe a healthy environment is the foundation of a prosperous economy, and that a prosperous economy allows us to manage our environment wisely. Many examples of that dynamic already exist in our province and there is a vast potential for more. That’s
Friday, June 25th, 2010
NEW SCIENTIST – The study included carbon dioxide and other gases such as methane emitted by rice paddies. It found that, overall, the intensification of farming helped keep the equivalent of 600 billion tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere – roughly a third of all human greenhouse-gas emissions between 1850 and 2005. Read More
Friday, June 25th, 2010
Atlases can be considered as the original mashups, combining and integrating several pieces of geographic and spatial information. Globes enabled viewers to gain a better appreciation of the world, including land and oceans. But atlases combined the advantages of graphics with the printing press. Today, we look at the world through advanced digital technologies that
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Esri Press is proud to expand its cartographic classics series with The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design by Arthur H. Robinson. The series also includes Cartographic Relief Presentation by Eduard Imhof and the soon-to-be-published Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin. Originally published in 1952, The Look of Maps is based on Robinson’s
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Omar Abdullah said that Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics programmes can contribute in a big way to solve various problems. “It can enhance the capability of surveying and monitoring the natural resources at low cost and at high speed. The space application programmes can prove as a highly effective mechanism to identify villages and areas requiring
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
This study presents a global scale analysis of cropping intensity, crop duration and fallow land extent computed by using the global dataset on monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas MIRCA2000. MIRCA2000 was mainly derived from census data and crop calendars from literature. Global cropland extent was 16 million km2 around the year 2000 of which
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
CHINA DAILY – Authorities have approved 18 domestic companies to provide Internet mapping services in the country, with a number of applications from foreign vendors still being considered. The domestic companies were selected out of about 30 applicants and the list of approved providers is expected to be announced soon, the State Bureau of Surveying
