Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) nowadays has been significant and relevant considering how the world has become so technology-oriented, and its impact on development planning necessary. Thus said City Mayor Maloney Samaco in his welcome remarks yesterday during the conduct of the first-ever GIS celebration held at the city gym here that carried the theme “GIS
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
The UK consists of 60m acres of land, of which two-thirds is owned by 0.36% of the population, or 158,000 households. By contrast, 24m households live on 3m urban acres – just 5% of UK’s total acreage. If economist Kate Barker’s target of 250,000 homes were built annually for 25 years (creating of 6.3m new
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
The EC has launched a call for ideas on industry requirements for GNSS testing and simulation over the next 5 years. This will be used to shape FP8 activities. The questionnaire can be downloaded here
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Vietnam is planning to spend over $600 million for its planned space centre in 2018. Under the plan, the Vietnam Space Centre, covering an area of nine hectares at Hoa Lac High-tech Park in Hanoi, will specialise in researching and producing small satellites to be used in domestic weather forecast, geodesy, exploration, radio- television broadcast and
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Emergency services working in the immediate aftermath of disasters will benefit from fast access to pan-European mapping created from interoperable, geospatial data thanks to an agreement between EuroGeographics and the European Environment Agency (EEA). The agreement, signed on 16th November 2011 at the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) plenary in Istanbul, Turkey, will improve access to
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Leosphere SAS, a world leader in Lidar technologies for atmospheric observations, announced its first dual range of products dedicated to the air traffic industry today at the Meteorological Technology World Exhibit. The WindCube200s is a new generation of long range scanning wind doppler lidar that addresses the landing and take off atmospheric related hazards :
Friday, November 18th, 2011
DLT Solutions and Percussion Software today announced an agreement to provide government agencies with cloud-ready WCM solutions. Percussion’s WCM products purchased through DLT are designed to be readily deployed in the cloud and are optimized for rapid delivery. This cloud-ready solution will enable government agencies to move beyond static information web sites to create deeper
Friday, November 18th, 2011
The standing committee on aboriginal affairs and northern development met on Thursday with department officials from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) to discuss land use and sustainable economic development (overview of land tenure and land registry). AANDC officials provided an overview of the land tenure system, land registry and other management of reserve
Friday, November 18th, 2011
The US space agency (Nasa) has released the sharpest ever elevation map of the Moon. It will enable scientists to accurately portray the shape of the entire Moon at a higher resolution than ever before. The map was produced using data sent back by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, which was launched in June 2009. Read
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Statoil, Chevron Canada and Repsol E&P Canada have been named the successful bidders for exploration rights on two land parcels in the Flemish Pass Basin, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Read More
