Saturday, November 26th, 2011
FLIDAR is reliable floating measurement equipment built specifically for the harsh offshore environment. It is the first floating LIDAR offshore resource assessment device validated in North Sea conditions. FLIDAR enables fast, cost-effective and accurate wind resource assessments at seawithout the added cost and complexity of a fixed offshore measurement platform. Read More
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
The European Commission is referring Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union and asking for financial penalties to be imposed for two failures to transpose EU legislation into national law. Despite earlier warnings, Poland has failed to notify the Commission about the transposition of legislation on the Ambient Air Quality Directive, which
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
The beginnings of geographic information system (GIS) were built on a foundation of landscape mapping and related to agriculture. Traditionally, the production of mapping for agriculture has been primarily oriented around government agencies and organisations. The production of food led to exports and and imports and often încluded government agencies. Governance linked to food production crossed
Friday, November 25th, 2011
The European Space Agency ESA and the police are joining forces to spot marijuana plantations hidden in sweet corn fields in Limburg, the Telegraaf reports on Friday. The experiment is due to begin in early 2012. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, researchers can now read a ‘spectral signature’ from a marijuana plant and distinguish it from other crops.
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Shri Ranjan Chatterjee, Consultant, Planning Commission, said that forests are meant for every body and we need to keep balance between environment and forests. Shri Chatterjee said, “Forests are under pressure because of lack of understanding. Forests are not merely to preserve but work towards more greening with joint efforts.” Addressing a valedictory session of
Friday, November 25th, 2011
The Centre would soon unveil a policy that would allow access to data, barring those of sensitive nature, to registered users for scientific, economic and social developmental purposes. Thirumalachari Ramasami, Secretary in the Department of Science and Technology (DST), made this announcement at a conference on ‘Geospatial Technologies for Good Governance’ organised by FICCI. Read More
Friday, November 25th, 2011
The new release 5.0 of the incontrovertible SpacEyes3D Builder offers you the performance of more realistic 3D models, a deeper analysis of your data and an increased efficiency. – Represent all your GIS data more efficiency: With the new kernel of GIS data rendering, represent in a flash all your surface data, represent the vegetation and
Friday, November 25th, 2011
The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has earmarked an additional 15 550 square kilometres of land for conservation. The land will be brought under protected landscapes management arrangements under a new project which is designed to conserve biodiversity. The recently launched Namibia Protected Landscape Conservations Areas Initiative. Read More
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Our most important source for knowledge about past life is the fossil record. But how exact is it in telling us about the history of life? According to a new study in Science the evolution of marine life over the last 500 million years has been strongly influenced by sea level changes and ocean chemistry and despite its incompleteness, the fossil
Friday, November 25th, 2011
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