Sunday, February 5th, 2012
North Dakota farm land values increased an average of 14 percent in 2011, according to an annual survey of appraisers and other real estate professionals. That figure is especially impressive because it is the second year of double-digit increases. Read More
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) and L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail (L&THMR) have sealed a six stage schedule of construction for the elevated rail system to be built for a distance of 71.16 km. First two stages as announced earlier will be between Nagole to Mettuguda for which the first pier (pillar) work will begin this month while
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
This period of extreme cold, which is always less intense than that of 1985, according to forecasters, is expected to last until 7:00 Saturday. Read More
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
These days, the San get most of their supplies from the shop in Tsumkwe, in the center of the in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in the northeast Namibia, near the border with Botswana. The preserve is home to around 2,500 San. With its roughly 500 inhabitants, Tsumkwe is the largest village in the area. At
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Obtaining information from GLONASS modules, operator will see on his electronic chart the number of serviceable navigational aids and their precise coordinates on a real-time basis. For instance, if a beacon goes out of operation or a buoy deviates from assigned area, operator will warn vessels about the failure”, points out Artyom Matyash, director of GLONASS
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Southwark council provides citizens with the latest mapping systems to share information and enable access to services. A chance find of 82 old paper maps presented it with the challenge of sharing that historical record with its residents too. Read More
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Cadastre and Registry Regularization Project is a massive operation to map and register all properties in the country. It is ongoing since 2005, and aims to develop an integrated system housing both an officially mapped, physical definition of every property, along with a legal registry of the owner or owners who go with it.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
In the last ten years, scientists have shown that it is possible to detect falling snow and measure surface snowpack information from the vantage point of space. But there remains much that is unknown about the fluffy white stuff. Read More
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Two new staff appointments have been made recently in CIESIN’s Science Applications Division. Sylwia Trzaska, a climate scientist specializing in climate variability and change in Africa and other developing regions, has joined CIESIN as an associate research scientist, effective January 16. She is helping to lead a project on African and Latin American resilience to
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The record funding of 333.5 million UAH have been provided from the State Budget of Ukraine for 2012 for the implementation of land reform. For comparison, in 2011 it was allocated 9.2 million UAH, the Chairman of the State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine Sergiy Tymchenko announced at a press conference. Read More
