Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
A humiliating string of accidents that has beset Russia’s space program over the past year, and only seems to be getting worse, may be the result of foreign sabotage, the head of the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos), Vladimir Popovkin, hinted on Tuesday. Read More
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
The problem is on distribution networks Water Supply Managers Associations (Asada) and because the diameters of the pipes are very small and insufficient flow. These organizations manage the water to about 1.2 million Costa Ricans. According to the Fire Department, 78% of the 1,500 Roast in the country that have no suitable networks and 15% have
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
The final report of the 39th session of the plenary meeting of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) 2011 is now available online. CGMS-39 took place in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 3-7 October, and was hosted by the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Roshydromet. Read More
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Health is an important issue not only for human beings, but also for civil infrastructures. Bridge collapses often result in a large number of casualties, as well as negative social and economic consequences, as was seen in the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN, in 2007.1 Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructures can mitigate problems
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
CSR pl announced that Mio Technology Corporation (Mio), a leading maker of mobile GPS devices, has extended its strategic collaboration with CSR, deploying CSR’s SiRFatlasV SoC and TriG RF-based platform to provide the multimedia and navigation capability for its new-generation line of personal navigation devices (PNDs). The new line is the latest member of Mio’s popular line
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
China’s military top brass may feel secure with Beidou navigation satellites in orbit, but making the network pay will be the next big challenge as outer space becomes crowded with rival constellations. Read More
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Up to now, the Stavanger area has seen most of the major effects of the Norwegian “oil boom”. However, an increasing number of oil-related firms are now setting up head offices in Oslo. One reason for this, experts say, is that it is no longer easy for the oil industry to find qualified staff in the
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
The presentations of the II Jornadas Ibericas de Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (November 2011) can now be downloaded at the website: II JIIDE 2011
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Launching Defra’s water white paper last month, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman described the urgent need for a new approach to water management: “Making sure we’ve got enough water for everyone is going to be one of the major challenges this country will have to deal with in the years ahead.” Business has a key role to play: we look
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
The 26th International Cartographic Conference will be held in Dresden in August 2013. This conference returns to Germany again, with ICA conferences being held previously in Germany in Frankfurt in 1962 and Cologne in 1993. The International Cartographic Conferences take place every two years. 2013 sees the conference in the “Florence of the North”. It will bring together
