Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
MOSCOW TIMES – Over the past 10 years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been one of the biggest cheerleaders of Glonass — a Brezhnev-era satellite navigation system that is intended to be an alternative to the U.S.-based GPS system, which has been operating since 1995. Now, the Kremlin is pondering steps to strengthen state control over
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
NEW ENERGY FOCUS – Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has today (August 16) met with Norwegian state oil firm Statoil to discuss the potential for developing the “world’s first” commercial-scale floating wind farm at one of two Scottish sites. Mr Salmond met with Statoil as part of a visit to Oslo and Stavanger designed to strengthen economic
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
ESPON – The available overview shows that the beneficiaries come from 26 countries involved in the ESPON 2013 Programme. 14% represents the UK, 8% France and Spain, 6% Italy and Switzerland, 5% Greece, Netherlands and Poland, 4% Finland, Hungary, Romania, Sweden respectively. The list will be updated with the information on the 10 more projects that are
Monday, August 16th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – Tapping away furiously at her well-worn keyboard, close to tears, Ory Okolloh feared Kenya was on the brink of civil war. A media blackout ushered the country into 2008, ensuring there was little coverage of a crisis that would go on to claim more than 1,100 lives and displace more than a quarter of
Monday, August 16th, 2010
SCIENCE DAILY – Researches at the University of Gothenburg have shown how climate change many million years ago has influenced the geographical range of plants by modelling climate preferences for extinct species. The method can also be used to predict what effects climate change of today and tomorrow will have on future distributions of plants and
Monday, August 16th, 2010
STUFFNZ – Land information is on the hunt for technology firms to develop innovative web services, similar to Google Maps, using its vast collections of land data. It says easy access to geographic information can stimulate economic growth. New Zealand is losing $1.3 million in productivity a day because it is failing to exploit the benefits of
Monday, August 16th, 2010
FIG – Terrestrial Laser Scanning is quite legitimately starting to take a larger stake in the domain of mainstream land surveying. This technological advancement is similar in significance for the industry to what RTK GPS was doing a decade or so ago, and it seems only logical that over the next decade 3D scanning technology will
Monday, August 16th, 2010
NOVINTE BULGARIA – The southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast continues to experience problems with the electric power supply, turning everyday life and vacation into an ordeal for thousands of residents and visitors. Areas north on the Black Sea City of Burgas and the historic beach town of Sozopol woke up without light, air conditioning and hot water again Monday
Monday, August 16th, 2010
ICENEWS – Due to extremely heavy rainfall predicted in South Iceland today, the risk of flooding from the Eyjafjallajokull glacier is considered high and such floods would be thick with mud and volcanic ash from this spring’s eruption. Read More
Monday, August 16th, 2010
JRC – During the last weeks, Portugal has seen conditions of high and very high fire danger. These conditions that favour fire ignition and spread lead to a number of simultaneous forest fires in Northern Portugal. Fire danger forecast provided by the European Forest Fire Information System. Read More
