Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Green water, high snowcovered mountains- and in the middle Jostedalsbreen National Park Centre. Jostedalsbreen National Park Centre is situated at the national park and beside the lake Strynsvatn, which was a part of the fjords thousands of years ago. The breathtaking landscape, the lake, and the mountains make a fantastic living postcard that you will never
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Ultrasound scanners are used for tasks as diverse as examining unborn babies and searching for cracks in the fabric of aircraft. They work by sending out pulses of high-frequency sound and then interpreting the reflections as images. To do all this, though, you need a device called a transducer. Read More
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Eruptions continued at the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland on Tuesday as a plume of smoke headed toward Britain, causing flight disruptions and stoking fears of a repeat of an eruption last year at another Icelandic volcano. “The low-level winds are … blowing strongly towards the UK,” said Peitur Arason of the Icelandic Meteorological Office, as British
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The council is proposing planning changes that would introduce tighter restrictions for building on rural land, with permits required to build on anything less than 250 hectares. The council says the scheme aims to protect agricultural land but the Victorian Government has vowed to block the changes in Parliament because it believes the 250 hectare limit
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
This year is the second consecutive year in Chile’s history that thermoelectricity will surpass hydraulic energy production in the central south of Chile, due to the combination of stable oil prices and low rainfalls leaving water reservoirs well-below-average levels in the past two years. Read More
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Massimo De Martini’s face assumes a look of concentrated pleasure as he slips the delicate sheet of paper, 16in by 27in, from its protective plastic sleeve. He spreads the page carefully across a leather bureau top. It’s a map of the world, printed in Florence in 1482. It smells musty, with a citrus top note, and
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Danish civil aviation authorities have closed a sector of Danish airspace off the northwest Jutland coast due to ash in the air from Icelandic volcano Grímsvötn. The ban came into effect at 6am and will be in remain in place until at least 12pm. However with winds continuing to blow in from the west, meteorologists forecast
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
It’s interesting the prototype of spatial data infrastructure for Guatemala that is preparing the General Secretary of planning and programming of the SEGEPLAN’s Presidency. We had seen in the video presentation of Moses Poyatos and Walter Giron from SITIMI in the 4th gvSIG’s days; at the end of the presentation mentioned that the IDEs was
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Concerned over the shrinking tree population in the city and its suburbs, the forest department is set to launch a census in the Chennai Metropolitan Area, sprawling over 1,189 sq km, in the first week of June. The mammoth two-phase exercise is expected to throw up data on the indigenous vegetation on the city’s landscape
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The recent dry weather which saw just 24 per cent of the average rainfall for April is likely to become a more frequent occurrence in the future due to the impacts of climate change. Therefore long term planning is needed to ensure sufficient water is available during hotter, drier summers.
