Sunday, April 10th, 2011
DESA’s Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN Cartographic Section/Department of Field Support organized the “Third Preparatory Meeting on the Proposed UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM)” from 4-6 April in New York. 60 leading experts from 20 Member States, six UN entities and 11 regional and international organizations participated actively in the
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
With a land use model to simulate the future development of land use as well as the links between transport infrastructure and spatial development. The ARE has had to examine a concept study different models. Read More
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
There are, in our view, good arguments for nuclear power. They turn on the dangers of the hydrocarbons of burning fossil fuels, the dire scenarios many scientists predict for climate change or global warning and world’s unstoppable appetite for energy. The practical dangers of digging for coal are well established in Turkey, where scores of
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Norwegian architect firm Snøhetta and their Canadian project partner Zeidler Partnership Architects have been commissioned to design the new Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto, Canada. The 8-storey Learning Centre will cost NOK 636 million to build, and will provide study space for around 2000 students, as well as a new library for the university. Read
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
“I remember the excitement that greeted Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space so well: a mixture of astonishment at the achievement, tinged – in some quarters anyway – with apprehension that Soviet science was ahead of America’s. Certainly in Russia it was a moment of glorious triumph. Alexander Urnov was then a bright young student in
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The American Public Transportation Association released a new high-speed rail report (pdf) chock-full of numbers and charts. Though advertised as a “business case” for fast trains, the report functions more as a compilation of the latest statistics and study conclusions that underscore the long-term potential of U.S. passenger rail. Some of the supporting figures. Read More
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The figure, unveiled at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, is substantially lower than numbers that have been used for nearly a century. The new research uses a global network of monitoring stations that detect the electromagnetic pulses produced by major bolts of lightning. It confirms that thunderstorms are mainly a tropical phenomenon – and the
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The village of Feldheim generates much more energy from its wind turbines and methane harvesting than it can use. Unhappy just selling the surplus, people there invested in creating their own a power grid and now pay an average of 25 percent less for electricity – and the price is guaranteed for the next 10
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The image represents the first radar intensity map collected at the very same Ku-band wavelength at which the candidate Earth Explorer CoReH2O would operate. The image was acquired near Sondankylä, northern Finland using the SnowSAR airborne instrument developed for ESA. In the lower right corner, the four bright dots are corner reflectors positioned on river ice
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
On 5 April 2011, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the Chairman of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party(*) hosted the annual Spring Conference of European Data Protection Commissioners in Brussels, involving data protection authorities from EU and non-EU Member States, as well as various authorities at EU level.
