Friday, September 3rd, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – More and more people worldwide, including in Germany, are tuning to their GPS devices when they go for a walk in the woods or along city streets – but it’s not necessarily because they have a bad sense of direction. Instead they’re looking for a small, usually plastic container hidden from plain sight but whose
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
COMPUTERWORLD – A potentially groundbreaking public-private partnership in geospatial data has been marred by inadequate communication and short deadlines, industry representatives claim. Earlier this month, Land Information New Zealand (Linz) released a request for proposal (RFP) asking for “proposals from innovative companies that specialise in collaborative partnerships to implement land information web services”. Read More
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
SANTIAGO TIMES – Starting December, scientists from the Biomar Foundation will use GPS (Global Positioning System) to follow the movements of humpback whales in protected marine area Francisco Coloane, in the Magellan Strait. The whales are to be monitored for 12 months. Read More
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
BALTIC REPORTS – In an effort to bring down power prices and increase carbon-free energy production, Estonia may get a underwater pump hydroelectricity plant along its northern coast. The plant which will be about 200 m below water and produce 300 mw of electricity, although the Ministry of Economy is questioning the need for such large power
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
ICIMOD – ICIMOD has taken up rapid response mapping for the flood affected areas in three provinces with the support from Sentinel-Asia partners and the request received from UN-SPIDER SpaceAid to support SUPARCO, Pakistan. A wide range of flood products focusing on different aspects of flood impact have been generated on a daily basis to support
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
EU – The European Commission today adopted a decision outlining the criteria necessary to achieve good environmental status for Europe’s seas. This will help Member States to develop coordinated marine strategies within each regional sea, ensuring consistency and allowing progress to be compared between regions. The definition of the criteria is a requirement under the Marine
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
ECONOMIST – IN A remote corner of Bahia state, in north-eastern Brazil, a vast new farm is springing out of the dry bush. Thirty years ago eucalyptus and pine were planted in this part of the cerrado (Brazil’s savannah). Native shrubs later reclaimed some of it. Now every field tells the story of a transformation. Read More
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
ESA – An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA’s Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land erosion. Read More
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
ROCHESTER BUSINESS JOUR – ITT Corp.’s Geospatial Systems division in Rochester has received a contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., to continue building the imaging system for the next-generation Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-2. The imaging system consists of the camera and sensor subsystem, optical telescope unit and outer barrel
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – A Web site designed to organize information from people directly affected by disaster has launched in Pakistan. PakReport.org is the latest deployment of the Ushahidi crowd-sourcing platform and is run by a handful of volunteers in Islamabad who want to help the victims of Pakistan’s floods. Read More
