Friday, November 25th, 2011
n the past three years tropical forested countries across the world have taken important institutional, policy, legal and piloting steps to become ‘ready’ for REDD+. Capacity building is a key component of this REDD+ readiness process and is backed by a huge investment of time and money from a large number of organizations, government agencies,
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
“The recent sea ice decline … appears to be unprecedented,” said Christian Zdanowicz, a glaciologist at Natural Resources Canada, who co-led the study and is a co-author of the paper published Wednesday online in Nature. “We kind of have to conclude that there’s a strong chance that there’s a human influence embedded in that signal.” Read
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The City of Whitehorse maintained separate databases for financial and asset information with some GIS data stored on a few computer desktops. Extracting mapping data was manually intensive and limited to a few users. Pacific Alliance developed an ESRI platform interface to access financial and asset data sets; it was designed with ArcGIS for Microsoft Silverlight. Integrated
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) has issued the GISCI position on the GIS profession in relation to other geospatial professions. The position states in part: The GIS Certification Institute contends that state regulation of the many and varied tasks performed by GIS Professionals would be counterproductive. Instead of state regulation, we
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
With the software distribution segment of Infotech Enterprises and the viewer segment of DataCAD, the two strongest former European distribution partners of two well-known viewer solutions merge to one powerful development partner. K2D will use the combined experience of the two viewer specialists to promote the development of the CAD Viewer Kubotek KeyView. Synergies, decades
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) in Vardø plays a key role in the maritime safety cooperation with Russia. From its location in Norway’s north easternmost corner it is possible to see over the Varanger fjord to Russia’s Kola Peninsula. This is the main route for oil tankers from Murmansk to the markets in Europe. Worst-case
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The huge potential benefits of a new electricity grid under the Irish Sea connecting power sources on Scottish, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland electricity networks have been highlighted in an exhaustive study published today. The Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study (ISLES) study, funded by the EU’s INTERREG IVA Programme, has found that development of an
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Wetlands International will be present at the upcoming climate talks in Durban (28 November – 9 December). This global NGO will show the important role that wetlands can play to adapt to climate change, with specific attention for wetlands in the dry and vulnerable parts of Africa. Wetlands International also continues its call for incentives
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
There is still time to be a part of the global gathering of LIDAR professionals when they meet in Salzburg, Austria in less than 7 days. The European LiDAR Mapping Forum is being held from 29 – 30th November 2011 and will combine a technical conference of over 40 papers presented by Internationally recognised speakers and an
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) is seeking post-doctoral candidates on the simulation of N2O emissions from cropland in France with the agro-ecosystem model CERES-EGC, and its calibration and validation using measurements from a network of experimental sites.
