Saturday, June 12th, 2010
TURKISH PRESS – The Turkish energy minister said that Turkey, as a partner country of Nabucco, had numerous responsibilities such as finding resources for the project. Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz replied to questions after his meeting with Exxon Mobil Corp’s senior vice president in capital Ankara. Read More
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus and takes a holistic approach in bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities. High profile speakers from all over the world are invited for giving presentations and running hands-on workshops for the conference series. Read More
Friday, June 11th, 2010
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will explore further guidance for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands. This is a crucial step towards a decision by the UN Climate Summit in December in Mexico to allow countries to reduce emissions through rewetting drained wetlands. Conservative estimate show that globally anthropogenic CO2 emissions from drained
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) CanmetENERGY CO2 Research Facility (CanCO2), located in Ottawa, is an integrated and efficient pilot-scale CO2 capture facility. At the facility, pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and mercury are simultaneously removed, and CO2 is purified and compressed for transport, storage or use. The transportable, trailer-mounted, modular CanCO2 is
Friday, June 11th, 2010
The North American continent is constantly changing, and mounting environmental concerns like climate change, sustainability, and water resources make it more essential than ever to have an efficient and consistent approach to monitoring land cover and land cover change. That’s what the North American Land Change Monitoring System, or NALCMS, intends to provide. The system
Friday, June 11th, 2010
The International Geospatial Society (IGS), the new individual member arm of the GSDI Association, held its first presidential election recently by electronic ballot. We are very pleased and proud to announce that the first President of IGS is Mabel Alverez from Chubut Province, Argentina. She teaches at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco
Friday, June 11th, 2010
RMSI announced its participation at nextmonth’s ESRI International User Conference, scheduled from the 12th to 16thJuly, 2010 in San Diego, California, USA. In addition to being an exhibitor(Booth #2215), RMSI will also have a significant presence at the mapgallery showcase where it will display recently completed projects inUtilities, Land, and Cartography. Read More
Friday, June 11th, 2010
As Bosnia develops into a mature, representative democracy, the role of local governments and municipalities grows in importance. The Governance Accountability Project (GAP) for Bosnia and Herzegovina, supported by US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swedish International Development Cooperative Agency (SIDA) and the Embassy of the Netherlands, is helping to build the capacity of
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Hunt Oil Co.’s $3.8 billion Peru LNG plant may spur natural-gas exploration and attract investment to the Andean country, company Chairman Ray L. Hunt said today. Peru is one of 18 countries worldwide to build a liquefied natural gas facility and has the largest such plant in South America, Hunt said. He spoke in Pampa
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Please join us for this informational web seminar to learn more about processing SAR (radar) data with the SARscape Basic module in ENVI. The SARscape modules are easy to use SAR-based processing modules that combine ENVI’s best tools for visualization and analysis with robust SAR processing support. You will learn how to use SARscape for common processing and analysis
