Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
ECONOMIST – The city of Nanjing, capital of China’s Jiangsu province, was not the obvious place to host this year’s international forum on urban competitiveness. Home to some 40 universities and colleges, the city’s culture is conservative and contemplative, not competitive. At Nanjing University, for example, students amble past, their noses buried in books as
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON – Anne Miglarese is a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton. She leads a team that is focused on growing Booz Allen’s geospatial solutions and services in the Defense, Security and Federal Civil markets. Active in national policy governing spatial data, she is chairman of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Read More
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
IEEE SPECTRUM – The van is an autonomous vehicle developed at the University of Parma’s Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, known as VisLab. Crammed with computers, cameras, and sensors, the vehicle is capable of detecting cars, lanes, and obstacles — and drive itself. The VisLab researchers, after getting tired of testing their vehicles in laboratory
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
GFZ POTSDAM – After 58277 orbits it was finally all over: in the afternoon of 19. September the georesearch satellite CHAMP burned up in space . Exactly 10 years, two months and 4 days after going into orbit, the satellite ended its mission over the Sea of Okhotsk. Professor Hermann Lühr, GFZ German Research Centre
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
BBC – A Snowdonia peak has leapt into the ranks of “super-mountain” after amateur surveyors found it is a crucial 1.8m (about 5ft 11in) higher than thought. It takes Glyder Fawr in the Snowdonia National Park up from 999m (3,278ft) above sea level to 1000.8m (3,283ft). Read More
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – It gets dark early in the Andes. Here, close to the Equator, the sun sets for most of the year at around 6 in the evening and only rises 12 hours later. In South American capitals like Lima and Quito, the population switches the lights on as soon as twilight kicks in. But
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – The goal is to take visitors on tours of the main water sources shared by and its neighbors to highlight the importance of water to regional peace. The program includes eight walking tours, all of which end on one of Israel’s borders, either with the Palestinian Authority or with Jordan. The program shows visitors
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – Dutch roads are the second safest in the world, with only Britain having marginally fewer traffic-related deaths, the Telegraaf reports on Monday, quoting figures from the International Traffic Forum. the Netherlands and Sweden, 3.9 people out of every 100,000 inhabitants are killed in traffic accidents. In Britain the figure is 3.8. Read
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors has approved a € 236-million loan to the Republic of Tunisia to finance the country’s Roads Upgrading Programme. Given the important role of the transport sector in the economic and social development process, the Tunisian government has embarked on an ambitious programme to develop an
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Russian and Norwegian interests met in Arkhangelsk last week to discuss a new project aimed at a fast improvement of conditions for logistics and transport in Arctic areas. The project focuses on four transport hubs in the area where the Northern Maritime Corridor meets the Northern Sea Route, says Harald Sørensen, Project Coordinator for
