Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
ECONOMIST – IN A remote corner of Bahia state, in north-eastern Brazil, a vast new farm is springing out of the dry bush. Thirty years ago eucalyptus and pine were planted in this part of the cerrado (Brazil’s savannah). Native shrubs later reclaimed some of it. Now every field tells the story of a transformation. Read More
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
ESA – An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA’s Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land erosion. Read More
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
ROCHESTER BUSINESS JOUR – ITT Corp.’s Geospatial Systems division in Rochester has received a contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., to continue building the imaging system for the next-generation Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-2. The imaging system consists of the camera and sensor subsystem, optical telescope unit and outer barrel
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – A Web site designed to organize information from people directly affected by disaster has launched in Pakistan. PakReport.org is the latest deployment of the Ushahidi crowd-sourcing platform and is run by a handful of volunteers in Islamabad who want to help the victims of Pakistan’s floods. Read More
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
BBC – The UN’s climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to the organisation’s credibility, an independent review has concluded. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has faced mounting pressure over errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007. The review said guidelines were needed to ensure IPCC leaders
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
SNIG PORTUGAL – The Portuguese Geographic Institute was awarded in July last, with the Special Achievement in GIS Award, which recognizes organizations that have gone further in using the technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The distinction occurred at ESRI International User Meeting – ESRI UC , held in San Diego. Read More
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – For 500 years, commodity traders have been trying to conquer the treacherous waters of the Russian Arctic passage – aware of its potential as a lucrative short-cut shipping route. Read More
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Russian wants joint mapping, joint resource management and joint development with Norway in the Border areas of the Barents Sea. Head of the Russian state university for oil and gas, Anatoly Zolotukhin, underlines the importance of a joint development plan for the former disputed areas of the Barents Sea. In April this year a
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
IRISH TIMES – Madam, – Aris Venetikidis’s new maps of public transport in Dublin are absolutely brilliant! (“Capital idea imagines new way forward”, Home News, August 30th). But isn’t it extraordinary that it takes a foreigner to come up with such an idea, rather than Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann, given that such maps have long
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – It used to be that farmers were concerned about the health of their fields as a whole. New technologies now enable them to care for plants on an individual basis. From fighting fungus to adjusting soil acidity, smart tractors can do it all. Read More
