Saturday, September 17th, 2011
Initiatives are continuing to lift Ukraine’s moratorium on the sale of agricultural land. To the surprise of many commentators, Parliament passed the Law on State Land Cadastre, well ahead of the expected Autumn 2012 schedule. The next logical step towards lifting the moratorium would be the adoption of the Law on the Land Market. Several
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Norway has just finished the first season of seismic survey in the newly established border area in the Barents Sea. Russia plans to start in 2012. The vessel “R.V Harrier Explorer” and the company PGS Exploration has just finished this year’s surveying of the Barents Sea floor. A total of 11,400 linear kilometres of two-dimensional seismic
Friday, September 16th, 2011
The recently launched Nigerian earth observation satellites will significantly boost the country’s capabilities for natural resource management as well aid disaster relief through the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, the Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Ita Okon Bassey Ewa, has said. Speaking in Abuja while presenting his ministry’s scorecard in the last 100 days, Prof Ewa said
Friday, September 16th, 2011
A Russian Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has been scheduled to lift off on October 1 to put another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit, a Space Forces spokesman said. The launch has been postponed following two failed space launches in August which led to the loss of a Progress space freighter and the Express-AM4 communications satellite. Read
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Germany’s decision to phase out its nuclear power plants by 2022 has rapidly transformed it from power exporter to importer. Despite Berlin’s pledge to move away from nuclear, the country is now merely buying atomic energy from neighbors like the Czech Republic and France. Read More
Friday, September 16th, 2011
If you have never heard of Uunartoq Qeqertaq, it’s possibly because it’s one of the world’s newest islands, appearing in 2006 off the east coast of Greenland, 340 miles north of the Arctic circle when the ice retreated because of global warming. This Thursday the new land – translated from Inuit as Warming Island –
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) announced that its business information division DMGI has offloaded geospatial firm Sanborn to its management for a “nominal consideration”. “The disposal was triggered by a strategic review that determined that Sanborn’s primary business of the aerial acquisition of geospatial images was non-core to DMGI,” the statement said. Sanborn reported revenues
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies has been selected for the ‘Asian Geospatial Excellence Award – Transportation Management’ by means of ‘National Traffic Information System.’ This award ceremony will be held during Asia Geospatial Forum 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia on 17 October.
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Kenyan youths have embraced modern technologies to spur innovations to transform farming practices and the management of natural resources at the smallholder level. They are currently utilising information and communication technology platforms to modernise farming, expand their revenue streams and boost food security to their communities. Read More
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Faced with rising sea levels that threaten their survival, the small Pacific island states are considering very seriously … to migrate to artificial islands. The sixteen countries of the Pacific Islands Forum has identified climate change as well as the biggest threat to their region and asked for the study of possible relocation of populations.
