Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and have tracked it around the world. NASA has collected them in the NASA Goddard FLICKR image gallery that shows the progression of the plume around the southern hemisphere.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
On the FIG web site we publish each month a paper called the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors. It can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in June 2011 is written by Rohan Bennett, Abbas Rajabifard,
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
While tropical forests are losing more and more leaves, victims of massive deforestation and their European cousins, they, extend from year to year. Read More
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
The unmanned airborne reconnaissance system since March 2010 Heron 1 is used by the Operational Wing Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan and provides valuable information regardless of time of day for the preparation, execution and evaluation of operations under the responsibility of Germany led by Regional Command North. Read More
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Iraq’s Electricity Minister says his government will flow some $77 billion into a long term project to improve electricity production and distribution. Iraq plans to finalize a $22 billion portion of the investment until 2015. The Iraqi government is planning to invest $77 billion in country-wide projects to generate and distribute electricity in a bid to
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Europe’s forests can play a key role in helping mitigate the impact of climate change, a report described as the most comprehensive of its kind concludes. Europe is home to 25% of the world’s forests, which absorb about 10% of the EU’s annual emissions, it added. Read More
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Special motorway rush hour lanes should be open more frequently to deal with extra volumes of traffic, transport minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen said on Tuesday. In addition, new highways are to be made a standard two times three lanes wide and two times four-lane highways will be the new norm in the central urban belt
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
In the period leading up to 2020, Norway’s Statnett is planning to establish four new cable connections between Norway and continental Europe, with a total capacity of up to 4200 MW. Stanett says more international interconnectors will aid the development of tomorrow’s energy supply in Norway and Europe, based on renewable energy. The new projects
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
This spring a sea-gliding robot deployed by start-up Liquid Robotics to collect data in the Gulf of Mexico sent an alarming text message to its pilot ashore that something was wrong. The pilot, who remotely guides the robot on its mission — in this case to collect data on water chemistry, current information, and acoustics
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Alistair McPhee has been appointed VP of Thales UK’s transportation systems business. Alistair has worked within the rail industry for the past nine years, and previously was with Westinghouse Rail Systems, a subsidiary of Invensys. At Westinghouse, Alistair joined as Projects Director, and for the last three years of his career there he led the business