Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
In the frame of the 15th anniversary of the VEGETATION programme, a contest is organized to employ a PhD student at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), to work on the extensive VEGETATION (VGT)-archive for a 4-year period. Also PROBA-VEGETATION (PROBA-V), the VGT follow-on mission can be part of the PhD research subject. The
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Between now and 2014 another 16 satellites will follow, thus making the system operational. The full constellation will consist of 30 satellites providing accurate navigation to travellers, ships, aeroplanes, search and rescue services and other users around the globe. The Galileo programme got off to a slow start, with many delays after 1999, when EU leaders gave the go-ahead to
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The Australian Government’s Improving Water Information Program is a $450 million investment led by the Bureau of Meteorology and supported by water agencies in the States and Territories. Four years after the program started, a comprehensive, reliable and up-to-date picture of Australia’s water resources is emerging that will revolutionise our understanding of water availability, condition, use and trends.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Sofia Airport Center (SAC), the largest business and logistics parks in Bulgaria has been presented at the Sixth Annual International Facility Management Conference in Sofia by its investors, Tishman International Companies and GE Real Estate. SAC Property Manager Nikola Ignatoff presented the SAC, home of Bulgaria’s first LEED-certified commercial office building, as a member of a distinguished panel focusing on the economic advantages of
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The Danish island of Samsö is the face of Denmark’s green energy revolution. It’s been carbon-neutral for years with its inhabitants producing more energy than they consume. It all began in 1997 when the Danish government initiated a competition to find a model for a carbon-neutral community. The winner at the time was Samsö. Today,
Monday, October 17th, 2011
A showdown between the conservation lobby and the construction industry will take place on Monday afternoon in parliament, as a committee of MPs questions experts on whether the government’s proposals for sweeping reforms to planning regulations should go ahead. Read More
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Many of the conversations I have had this week as I have travelled around some of our great English cities (Scotland was last week and Wales next) have been about the lack of a body like the National Trust or the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England to stand up for cities. Most of us
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Prestige and a multi-billion-dollar gamble in satellite navigation will be riding on a Soyuz rocket next Thursday when the Soviet-era workhorse launches from Europe’s space base in South America. It will be the first time that the legendary rocket, which traces its lineage to Sputnik and Gagarin, has been deployed outside Russia’s bases. Read More
Monday, October 17th, 2011
On 10 October 2011, GSA and CLGE have started an expert-group to make up a market review for GNSS in the near and midterm future. The first of two meetings was organized in the House of the European Surveyor and GeoInformation (HESGI). This is a direct effect of the Umeå meeting in June 2011. Here one can
Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Within the frames of the ice situation monitoring project in the seas of the Russian Arctic conducted by ScanEx RDC in behalf of the FSUE “Atomflot” a high resolution optical image of the Vilkitsky Strait was acquired on October 6, 2011 – the narrowest portion of the Northern Sea Route with heaviest traffic between the
