Thursday, May 13th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – An ambitious plan to link several West African capitals by railway links and roads is gaining seeds according to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade who ended a one day visit here. Addressing the media, Pres. Wade spoke specifically on the need to construct roads and railways to link West African capitals, including Monrovia,
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH – The coalition government is good news for “green” jobs, according to British Gas, which is rapidly increasing its recruitment and retraining of engineers. The energy supplier sees Conservative and Liberal Democrat plans to help households finance renewable power generation and heating equipment as a key moment in the expansion of the market
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Rosoboronex port demonstrated GLONASS/GPS transport monitoring systems at SOFEX-2010 exhibition held in Jordan. Presented were remote control systems Eleron-3 and Eleron-10 which provide the opportunity to trace any object. The systems use GLONASS/GPS signals. SOFEX is a premier international exhibition and conference that features the largest fully-integrated Special Operations Forces equipment and solutions
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
In this short article, I’d like to present the view from a more ‘bottom up’ perspective. The one thing the initiatives listed above have in common is that they are all national and international ‘top down’ approaches. One of the challenges they are likely to find is that ‘the devil is in the detail’ as
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Detailed survey data from SeaZone is assisting the European Marine Energy Centre Ltd (EMEC) in expanding the services it offers. EMEC provides developers with the opportunity to test full scale grid connected prototype devices in unrivalled wave and tidal conditions. EMEC is a global leader in renewable energy research. It is based in Stromness,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The GMES and Africa Process, launched in December 2007 by European and African main stakeholders, aims at developing the GMES and Africa Action Plan and submitting it for adoption at the next Africa-EU Summit which will be held in Libya by the end of 2010. This commitment is expressed in the Lisbon Declaration on GMES
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Recently the construction the German radar satellite TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement) was complete and the satellite has been qualified for space operations during a recent series of tests. TanDEM-X is the ‘twin’ satellite of the almost identical TerraSAR-X satellite (operational since 2007), both of them have been implemented jointly by the German
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
AeroPrecisa Limited has contracted with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to purchase an UltraCamLp medium-format camera system, including an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and camera mount. The entire deal, which included the purchase of an airplane, was brokered by Vexcel Imaging reseller GIS/Transport, Ltd., based in Beirut, Lebanon. ”AeroPrecisa felt the time was right
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
MEDIN – The English National Monuments Record (NMR), the public archive of English Heritage, contains over 10 million items and curates large corporate datasets. In 1992, the NMR began the systematic compilation of a record of historic ship wrecks and submerged archaeological sites out to the 12 nautical mile limit. Read More
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
CARBON POSITIVE – The Yasuni-ITT Initiative aims to create ‘carbon bonds’ to preserve a tract of in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest that also holds a lucrative oil resource ripe for exploitation. The carbon bonds would be issued over a government guarantee that oil won’t be extracted from the Yasuni National Park and the forest, its
