Sunday, November 20th, 2011
For decades, oil was the engine of development in the Arab world. But the oil era is drawing to a close and Arab societies are poorly prepared for this change, according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development. Read More
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Australia will play a lead role in co-ordinating rapid response natural disaster teams across the Asia Pacific under a new international agreement expected to be signed in the coming days. The region-wide disaster plan will push for quarantine laws to be relaxed for quick deployment of Australian sniffer dogs as well as flood and disaster mapping
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) nowadays has been significant and relevant considering how the world has become so technology-oriented, and its impact on development planning necessary. Thus said City Mayor Maloney Samaco in his welcome remarks yesterday during the conduct of the first-ever GIS celebration held at the city gym here that carried the theme “GIS
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
The UK consists of 60m acres of land, of which two-thirds is owned by 0.36% of the population, or 158,000 households. By contrast, 24m households live on 3m urban acres – just 5% of UK’s total acreage. If economist Kate Barker’s target of 250,000 homes were built annually for 25 years (creating of 6.3m new
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
The EC has launched a call for ideas on industry requirements for GNSS testing and simulation over the next 5 years. This will be used to shape FP8 activities. The questionnaire can be downloaded here
Friday, November 18th, 2011
The standing committee on aboriginal affairs and northern development met on Thursday with department officials from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) to discuss land use and sustainable economic development (overview of land tenure and land registry). AANDC officials provided an overview of the land tenure system, land registry and other management of reserve
Friday, November 18th, 2011
The US space agency (Nasa) has released the sharpest ever elevation map of the Moon. It will enable scientists to accurately portray the shape of the entire Moon at a higher resolution than ever before. The map was produced using data sent back by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, which was launched in June 2009. Read
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Statoil, Chevron Canada and Repsol E&P Canada have been named the successful bidders for exploration rights on two land parcels in the Flemish Pass Basin, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Read More
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype, is only the latest entrepreneur and investor to jump on the Berlin high-tech bandwagon. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about why people want to be in the city, what the scene in the German capital is missing and why the start-ups appear to be immune to economic crises. Read More
Friday, November 18th, 2011
ow do you map something 238,856 miles away? You can’t just send out a team of surveyors. At least, you couldn’t until relatively recently. Before then, lunar cartographers (technically, selenographers) could only rely on telescopes and their own artistic ability to draw a detailed portrait of the lunar face. They managed some pretty dazzling results.
