Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
IRISH INDEPENDENT – Agricultural land sales have begun to surge as farmers move to take advantage of the vacuum left in the market by the withdrawal of developers and speculators. The average sale value of farmland has dropped from a high of €20,000/ac in 2007 to between €6,000 and €10,000/ac this year. Read More
Monday, May 24th, 2010
COPENHAGEN POST – Despite last year’s headlines that revealed 190 waterworks facilities nationwide were pumping dangerous coli bacteria into residents’ drinking water, the problem as not got better – in fact, it has become worse. According to 2009 figures from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), 283 water facilities are now guilty of
Monday, May 24th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – The privatization process for the 52 hydroelectric power plants belonging to Electricity Generation Company, or EÜAŞ, which was divided into 19 groups, will be completed on Monday. Read More
Monday, May 24th, 2010
XINHUA – China is developing an independent satellie navigation system called Beidou. It’s the third country after the US and Russia to have such a system developed on its own. At the first China Satellite Navigation Annual Academic Conference in Beijing, the chief designer says the system will cover the whole world by 2020 and
Monday, May 24th, 2010
SANTIAGO TIMES – Matthias Jakob and Lukas Arenson know a few things about rock glaciers. Both have spent significant time studying permafrost (permanently frozen ground) and rock glaciers in the Chilean Andes and around the world. They are encouraged by the recent funding made available by Chile’s government for study of glaciers (ST Feb 04), because
Monday, May 24th, 2010
EDMONTON JOURNAL – Peering into the dark waters, they bade farewell to a 7.4-metre, torpedo-shaped submersible that had been flown in pieces from Port Coquitlam, B.C., before being put together on the sea ice south of Borden Island in the remotest part of the Arctic. Qaujisati, “One Who Searches,” is the unoffi cial name for
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
VisionMap emerges from Israel as a successful digital aerial camera manufacturer. Based upon new approaches for gathering high resolution images over wide areas, the company has gained attention with it’s A3 system. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston interviewed CEO Yaron Vilan to learn about the company and the revolutionary new products.
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Real Corp 2010 opened in Vienna, Austria last week at the Messe Vienna under the theme Cities for Everyone: Liveable, Healthy, ProsperousPromising Vision or Unrealistic Fantasy? With 500 urban planners, transport, design an sustainable planning individuals in attendance, the presentations covered a wide variety of topics ranging from technologies to social planning issues and environmental
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Sparx Systems, a global vendor of UML modeling tools based on open standards will sponsor the Interoperability Workshop at the next ISO/TC 211 meeting being held from 24-28 May 2010. The global geospatial community increasingly uses Enterprise Architect, the flagship UML modeling platform from Sparx Systems for the development of industry reference models and to
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Monitoring the green roof’s success in reducing runoff is critical to the project, according to Darla Cravotta, the special projects coordinator with Allegheny County. “We can’t talk about the benefits of a green roof without monitoring it,” said Cravotta. “But when we have data, we can encourage other people to build green roofs,” she said.
