Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Six URISA’s GISCorps volunteers were recruited to assist in mining various datasets in earthquake stricken areas of Japan. This mission is in collaboration with Crisis Commons http://crisiscommons.org. The mined and organized datasets will become available to the humanitarian relief community. For specific details about this project, click here.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Britain’s fledgling solar power industry is gearing up for a fight over the Government’s review of the solar subsidies scheme. The consultation setting out how the Government proposes to change the “feed-in tariff” (FIT) system for solar arrays producing 50 kilowatts (kW) or more of power could be published as early as this week. And green
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Experts met at the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Interference, Detection and Monitoring Conference 2011 in London to discuss this issue, following a report from the Royal Academy of Engineering which laid out the risks of GPS disruption. eLORAN (Enhanced Long Range Navigation) was among the most actively discussed solutions to GPS jamming.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
The GOES-11 satellite captured a stunning image of the Pacific Ocean as tsunami-generated waves move through the ocean basin. The waves were generated from this morning’s earthquake near Japan. At 0546 UTC on March 11 (12:46 a.m. EST/2:46 p.m. local time/Japan) an earthquake with the preliminary magnitude 8.9 occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
It’s considered an achievement to host the Olympics for your country, but often the host city is the least excited about the whole undertaking. The Floating Olympic Complex proposed for the Rio de Janeiro games in Brazil aims to solve the problem of later unused buildings in these incredible inverted structures. Pouring enormous amounts of money
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Model runs from the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory show the expected wave heights of the tsunami as it travels across the Pacific basin. The largest wave heights are expected near the earthquake epicenter, off Japan. The wave will decrease in height as it travels across the deep Pacific
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Britain risks losing hundreds of billions of pounds needed to build wind farms and other renewable energy resources if the Government fails to set up a Green Investment Bank, MPs have warned. The Coalition Agreement promised to put aside at least £1 billion to raise money from the private sector for building new green power sources
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
RapidEye has acquired two scenes over the West Coast of Honshu Island on Marth 12th. The satellites are already tasked again to image on Sunday, March 13th. The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) which is part of the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) contacted RapidEye shortly following the breaking news of the earthquake and resulting
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
The maps, which are downloadable, allow layering of data — so scientists can overlay, say, major wheat production centers with concentrations of Russian wheat aphids, a crop pest. The idea behind the Internet-based, bilingual maps, collectively called AgroAtlas, is to promote world food security — with specific attention to nations who were a part of the former
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Australia’s coastal zone includes major cities and supports major industries such as agriculture, fisheries, and tourism. The zone also includes coastal wetlands and estuaries, mangroves and other coastal vegetation, coral reefs, heritage areas and threatened species or habitats. Read More
