Monday, January 9th, 2012
First Minister Alex Salmond is to travel to Abu Dhabi this week to sign a “ground-breaking” contract with renewables firm Masdar. Under the agreement, the Energy Technology Partnership – a union of 12 Scottish universities – will develop green energy products with Masdar. They aim to produce new wind, solar, wave and tidal energy technology. Read More
Monday, January 9th, 2012
But Action for Market Towns – the national charity representing market and small towns across the UK – says the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) needs to have a much clearer definition of sustainable development than that included in the draft document. The plans involve the replacement of more than 1,000 pages of national planning
Monday, January 9th, 2012
Audience. The interdisciplinary GI_Forum focuses on an international audience, communicating in English, and sharing an interest in translating theory, methods and techniques into a broad range of GI application domains. Young researchers are especially invited to contribute and discuss their research; together with established scientists they will find a vibrant community from academia, business, and
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
The latest EU agreement has disappointed and fallen short of expectations, failing to convince markets of the presence of any credible plans to tackle the Euro-crisis. Though the EU members agreed on measures in the first half of December, intended to communicate to the financial markets that they are working towards the goal of a
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
A new MDL Dynascan (land/water based) mobile LIDAR system has been added to our inventory. We can produce 3D point cloud data sets for shoreline, GIS, quarry/mining volumetric asset figures etc. All in a time frame that would take two surveyors with standard single point position GPS days now done in minutes with many more data
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
This book combines 29 referred papers that will be of interest to the researcher and practitioner alike. It is designed to bring together the best of the past decade, state-of-the-practice applications of today, and visions for the next decade. Read More
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Norwegian gas from the Snøhvit gas field outside Hammerfest can for the first time be shipped through the Northeast Passage this summer. The Norwegian company Knutsen OAS Shipping has received permission from Russian authorities to transport LNG from Snøhvit to Japan along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Read More
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Total length in Sultanate 1,061 km — GCC project completion by 2017 – MUSCAT — Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Futaisi, Transport and Communications Minister, said the financial and technical offers for the pre-qualified companies for the provision of the consultancy services tender for the design and supervision of the railway project were opened recently.
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Britain’s network of 18th century canals could once again play a major industrial role, in a revival driven by the demand for green energy. There are hopes that inland waterways that are now the preserve of walkers, barge-owners and holidaymakers may finally undergo a rebirth as freight transport routes to meet the needs of power stations run
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
The Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry issued a decree on 21 December 2011 on the fees of the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS). The decree prescribes that the NLS will open its topographic datasets to the public on 1 May 2012 to be used freely and free of charge. “From 1 of May 2012, digital maps portraying
