Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Devastating natural disasters have killed close to a million people and caused billions of pounds of damage in the past few years. Despite its sophisticated technology, humanity remains hugely vulnerable to earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and other calamities. The danger is only likely to increase, say geologists and weather experts. Earth’s swelling numbers are forcing
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The ever-growing mobile phone traffic and the rapidly increased use of mobile wireless Internet connections have all but paralysed the scatter radar system used in Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland as part of the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) programme, which studies the interaction between the sun and the earth as revealed by upper atmosphere
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The maiden launch of the veteran Soviet-Russian rocket Soyuz from Europe’s space base in South America has been scheduled for October, a spokesman for launch operators Arianespace said on Tuesday. “Right now we are looking at mid-October” for the first launch, said spokesman Mario de Lepine. Soyuz will carry the first two satellites in Europe’s Galileo navigation
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The Global Space and Satellite Forum 2011 is hosting the second European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), which aims to encourage entrants to use technology in innovative ways. The MENA leg of the competition is being run by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF). The kick-off event is being held on the third day of GSSF and
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The IAG Subcommission 1.3.a for Europe EUREF started in 1994 with its activities for development and establishment of European height systems. Several projects were initiated. The work base on an excellent cooperation between, National Mapping Agencies (Comité Européen des Responsables de la Cartographie Officielle – now EuroGeographics) and the Technical Working Group EUREF In accordance
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
EMS Technologies, Inc. announced that products and solutions offered through its Global Resource Management unit will soon be outfitted for compatibility with GLONASS, a constellation of 26 positioning and navigation satellites operated by the Russian government. The enhancements are designed to enable the delivery of reliable and secure asset-tracking and -monitoring solutions to a wide
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
The issue of land is at the heart of agricultural policies, rural development, territorial planning and the management of natural resources. Africa, Asia, Latin America… no continent is left indifferent! Today, development banks have placed this subject in the heart of the ‘country’ based strategies that they establish. Given that geographic information is an essential
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
The pressure is calculated as length of the jam multiplied by the time it takes to disperse. A large part of the reduction is due to road widening schemes on the A2, A12, A58 and A9 in particular, the VID says. Improvements to the A2 alone account for four percentage points of the 16.9% decline, the
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Turkey has been ranked as the seventh biggest yielder in an agricultural revenue index recently announced by the World Bank, but the ranking is far from indicative of performance, as the high agricultural revenue is a result of the high domestic prices, according to a professor from the Middle East Technical University. Read More
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
High quality imageries acquired from India’s advanced remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2, launched last month, were presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Radhakrishnan. Dr Radhakrishnan called on Dr Singh along with a team of scientists from various centres and units of ISRO as well as the Department of Space. Resourcesat-2
