Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday its has collected a trace amount of gas, which could be vaporized material from asteroid surface samples, from inside a tiny capsule released by Japan’s Hayabusa unmanned space probe earlier this month. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
GLOBIO is a tool to assess past, present and future impacts of human activities on biodiversity. Since 2002 the model has been extensively used for environmental assessments on the global to national scale. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Get the single-source solutions guide to the sustainable management of water resources (download).Why is water the environmental issue? The answer is simple: without it, life on this planet could not exist. Yet, despite this fact, reckless consumption practices from a growing population are drying up the Earth’s already limited water resources. Other factors, such as
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), a wholly owned US subsidiary of Topcon Corporation, announced that it has been selected to supply GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) receivers and software for Anhui Province Continuously Operating Reference Station Network (AHCORS).The AHCORS network is designed to provide full coverage of Anhui Province of China with network RTK capability and
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
ALL ABOUT DATA – I recently had the opportunity to attend AR Dev Camp Vancouver, an un-conference focusing on Augmented Reality (AR). This is an emerging field that involves changing what you can see by overlaying information on top of a camera view, like in the movie “Terminator”. So, what does this mean for geospatial professionals? Read
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Carl Bass, President and Chief Executive Officer of Autodesk, Inc. will ring the NASDAQ Opening Bell remotely from Autodesk’s office in San Francisco, California on Thursday, June 24 at 9:30 a.m. (ET). NASDAQ lists approximately 516 companies from California with 206 companies from Silicon Valley. The ceremony will be broadcast live on the NASDAQ seven
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – The capacity of Finland’s forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has doubled in just under 20 years. According to the Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Finland’s forests absorb 42 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, which is well over half of Finnish carbon dioxide emissions, which were 70 million
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Access to agricultural information in Rwanda is becoming a reality with inauguration of an Agricultural Information Communication Centre (AICC). Funded by the governments of Rwanda and Belgium, AICC aims at collecting, storing and disseminating information on the agricultural sector in the country. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
WALES GOV – It is a principle of the Wales Spatial Plan that development should be sustainable. Sustainable development is about improving wellbeing and quality of life by integrating social, economic and environmental objectives in the context of more efficient use of natural resources. The Wales Spatial Plan aims to deliver sustainable development through its
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Researchers at the University of New Brunswick were among a few scientists worldwide to pick up a new GPS signal last week. The test signal was transmitted by the recently launched IIF-1 satellite, a new breed of GPS satellite that delivers a new, stronger signal, said UNB researcher Prof. Richard Langley. Before now, there were
