Friday, February 17th, 2012
To create the map I used open data from several online sources. I downloaded bathymetry data from NOAA, bouys and channel data from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, and some road and point of interest data from OpenStreetMap. I needed several tools to work with the data and create the map. To manipulate the raster
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
With funding from NOAA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), they have developed a modelling system that NOAA will use to generate ET estimates over the continental United States. NOAA will evaluate these ET products to see how well they work for operational hydrologic and meteorological modeling. One application of the remotely sensed
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Information in sensitive health records could be used for better health planning, but opponents argue patients should have greater control over who accesses their files. Read More
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Launched to mark the 50 th anniversary of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the first collaborative photographic inventory of representations of space in the public space using the Geoportal API for geolocation. Cosmothropos is a photography project to inventory the collective representations of space or references to space in public spaces. He invited as many to engage in
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has announced that the Norwegian Government intends to start additional seismic surveys further north in the previously disputed area of the Barents Sea. Stoltenberg made the announcement in a speech to the Oslo Energy Forum on Wednesday evening. Seismic surveys will start this summer and will continue into 2013. Read More
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Sistema JSFC (“Sistema”) (LSE:SSA), the largest diversified public financial corporation in Russia and the CIS, today announces that it has increased its stake in OJSC Navigation Information Systems (“NIS”) from 51% to 70% through an acquisition of an additional issue of NIS’ shares. Sistema paid for the shares by contributing its 51% stake in M2M
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets are pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Hird as their new Managing Director. Now in his tenth year with the company, Andy started as Professional Services Manager, adding the Software Development portfolio in 2009. During that time he has been recognised as driving forward the high standards that has earned Aligned
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
This is the first-ever all-sky map of carbon monoxide in the cosmos. The Planck space telescope was designed to look at the background glow in the cosmos in an effort to understand how it formed. Coincidentally, scientists have found, it can help spot star-forming regions where carbon monoxide glows brightly despite its low abundance. Read
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) has received official confirmation from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) that scientists have drilled through the ice to Lake Vostok, a lake under the Antarctic ice cap. This may yield knowledge about life that has existed in isolation for millions of years. Read More
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
A satellite image of the ice pack on the Atlantic side of the Arctic was taken last Saturday and tells a story you have never heard in February: The entire Kara Sea east of Novaya Zemlya is ice-free. While central Europe and Russia are freezing and covered with snow, the story is different in the high
