Friday, July 29th, 2011
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and partners were awarded a US$8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will be used to excel postgraduate sanitation education and research with a focus on solutions for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. This 5-year capacity building and research project was
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Does Europe really want to dictate an idea for climate protection to the rest of the world? That’s the question being asked by US leaders in Washington, who are throwing their support behind a protest by the American airline industry against an EU climate rule. The new regulation comes into force in January 2012 and requires
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) organized its fourth, Spatial Challenge. This year, 37 teams of students from 18 institutions took part in this annual Geographic Information System (GIS) competition. The teams showcased their efforts at The Plaza, National Library Building on 27 July, marking the culmination of six months of hard work by the students. Guest-Of-Honour,
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The International Space Station (ISS) will be de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean after 2020 like its Russian predecessor Mir, Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) Deputy Head Vitaly Davydov said on Wednesday. “We will be forced to sink the ISS. We cannot leave it in orbit as it is a very complicated and a heavy object.
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Arirang-2 is an earth observation satellite launched into the orbit by a Russian rocket on July 28, 2006, from Russia`s Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The Russian rocket developer Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center also manufactured the first-phase rocket for Korea’s first space projectile Naro. The Arirang-2 is the lone Korean satellite that is operating.
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Back home now and a new carbon abatement project in Central Australia is being touted as a large scale experiment in agricultural emissions trading. The Federal Government has announced it will fund two thirds of the purchase price of Henbury Station to help transform it into the world’s largest carbon farm. The agricultural company, RM Williams, will
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The goal of the Alpine Space Project “ALPSTAR, Toward Carbon Neutral Alps – Make Best Practice Minimum Standard”, is to achieve climate neutrality in the Alps by 2050. At the initial conference on 27th and 28th October 2011 in Chambéry participants will discuss the policy requirements on energy, transport and the economy in order to
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
MAPPS, the national association for private sector geospatial firms, recognized 15 individuals for significant contributions to the association and the profession at the association’s recent annual conference in Bolton Landing, NY.
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
China is preparing to launch its ninth “Beidou” or Compass navigation satellite in the coming days, an official media report said on Monday. The satellite will be launched as part of China’s indigenous satellite-navigation set-up. A Long March-3A carrier rocket will launch the “Beidou” from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, a spokesperson
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Today’s mapmaker is a mix of social scientist, field worker, graphic artist, and techie. Looking for a more creative way to tell the stories of relief, recovery, and development, USAID—and in particular, the parts of the Agency that work in political transition and disaster response environments—have turned to such mapmakers and developed Geographic Information Units (GIU),
