Friday, May 14th, 2010
RUSSIA & CIS DEFENSE – A plan for replenishing the GLONASS orbital navigation constellation envisions the launch of 14 Glonass-M satellites in 2010-12, Nikolai Testoyedov, the general designer and general director of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (Reshetnev-ISS, based in Krasnoyarsk territory), told Interfax-AVN. Read More
Friday, May 14th, 2010
IISD – The forest sector in Ghana is the fourth largest foreign exchange earner for the country. The main contributor is the formal forest sub-sector, consisting of regulated industries in timber and timber products. The informal sub-sector, characterised by small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs), has been largely left out in forest planning and management
Friday, May 14th, 2010
DEWHA – The Rudd Government will invest $18.0 million over four years to establish a groundbreaking National Plan for Environmental Information to help protect our precious environmental assets into the future. “The National Plan for Environmental Information is the first step towards long term reform of Australia’s environmental information base, building this critical infrastructure for
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
UNSDI – ESA’s TIGER II initiative has selected 20 project proposals across Africa to receive support from Earth-observation technology to learn more about the water cycle and to improve water-monitoring resources.ESA’s TIGER Capacity Building Facility (TCBF) has been established to support the 20 project proposals, which will receive specific technical assistance, training and scientific support
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – An ambitious plan to link several West African capitals by railway links and roads is gaining seeds according to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade who ended a one day visit here. Addressing the media, Pres. Wade spoke specifically on the need to construct roads and railways to link West African capitals, including Monrovia,
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH – The coalition government is good news for “green” jobs, according to British Gas, which is rapidly increasing its recruitment and retraining of engineers. The energy supplier sees Conservative and Liberal Democrat plans to help households finance renewable power generation and heating equipment as a key moment in the expansion of the market
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Rosoboronex port demonstrated GLONASS/GPS transport monitoring systems at SOFEX-2010 exhibition held in Jordan. Presented were remote control systems Eleron-3 and Eleron-10 which provide the opportunity to trace any object. The systems use GLONASS/GPS signals. SOFEX is a premier international exhibition and conference that features the largest fully-integrated Special Operations Forces equipment and solutions
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
MEDIN – The English National Monuments Record (NMR), the public archive of English Heritage, contains over 10 million items and curates large corporate datasets. In 1992, the NMR began the systematic compilation of a record of historic ship wrecks and submerged archaeological sites out to the 12 nautical mile limit. Read More
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
ESA – The Engineering Model of the Galileo In-Orbit Verification satellites has completed several phases of testing in cooperation with the ground segment and is now being prepared for electromagnetic compatibility testing. The second in a series of System Validation Tests (SVT-0B1) has been executed from the Galileo Launch and Early Orbit Phase Operations Control
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
CARBON POSITIVE – The Yasuni-ITT Initiative aims to create ‘carbon bonds’ to preserve a tract of in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest that also holds a lucrative oil resource ripe for exploitation. The carbon bonds would be issued over a government guarantee that oil won’t be extracted from the Yasuni National Park and the forest, its
