Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The fonaso Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme invites applications on questions relating to national consequences and effects of international forest policy and the international forest regime. Under the theme “The international forest regime as driver for sustainable national forest policies” applicants are invited to submit relevant research proposals until 1 October 2010 (fonaso call 2.6
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Near real-time commercial monitoring of the Northern Sea Route and the freezing seas of Russia is initiated in behalf of the ice-breaking operations of the FSUE Atomflot. A contract on radar satellite imagery of the ice situation ordered by the FSUE Atomflot in 2010 has been carried out by ScanEx RDC. A network of 4
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
ScanEx specialists released a new version of ScanEx TaskFlow® application. It is intended for automation of any data flow processing, including RS data. The application enables to create and perform tasks of step-by-step batch processing of large data volumes using a random set of console programs. Execution of such a task allows to user to
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
MAIL & GUARDIAN SA – South Africa is ready for nuclear power, the world’s largest nuclear operator, Electricite de France (EDF), said at an energy workshop in Johannesburg on Monday. It was ready because of its political willingness, Eskom’s good track record, the public’s awareness of climate change challenges and industries’ eagerness to enter the
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
In commemoration of EARTH’s twentieth Anniversary, EARTH University and its graduates, with the support of the Costa Rica Tourist Board (ICT), CNN and Cummins are organizing a simultaneous global tree planting on June 5, World Environment Day, called EARTH Plants the Future. Tree plantings have been organized by EARTH alumni in over 26 countries, and planting
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the integration of its civil engineering design and stormwater modeling and analysis applications to further enhance workflows and facilitate collaboration. The applications include Bentley’s InRoads, GEOPAK, PowerCivil for North America, MXROAD, CivilStorm, StormCAD, and
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Getmapping has made a spectacular start to its 2010 aerial imagery flying season, capturing over 25,000 square kilometres using both its established fleet of Vexel digital cameras and a new VisionMap A3 large format camera. By the end of May, Getmapping had completed its aerial survey of Wales, begun in 2009, completed the whole of
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The early bird registrations for the Second Open Source GIS UK (OSGIS) conference at University of Nottingham ends on 4th June 2010.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The 4th annual Central Asia GIS Conference at the Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience (http://www.aca-giscience.org/) was opened on May 27 by Rector Abdykalykov from the Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. He was assisted by the Austrian ambassador to Central Asia, HE Ursula Fahringer and the representative of the
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Remote geophysical data acquisition tools, such as gravity and magnetic surveys, have proved very successful in mapping the underlying geology of the Australian continent. Similarly, these geophysical methods can also be applied in Australia’s offshore areas for mapping the continental margin using marine vessels (surface and submarine) and aircraft. The use of airborne magnetic surveys
