Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Obtaining information from GLONASS modules, operator will see on his electronic chart the number of serviceable navigational aids and their precise coordinates on a real-time basis. For instance, if a beacon goes out of operation or a buoy deviates from assigned area, operator will warn vessels about the failure”, points out Artyom Matyash, director of GLONASS
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Southwark council provides citizens with the latest mapping systems to share information and enable access to services. A chance find of 82 old paper maps presented it with the challenge of sharing that historical record with its residents too. Read More
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Cadastre and Registry Regularization Project is a massive operation to map and register all properties in the country. It is ongoing since 2005, and aims to develop an integrated system housing both an officially mapped, physical definition of every property, along with a legal registry of the owner or owners who go with it.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
In the last ten years, scientists have shown that it is possible to detect falling snow and measure surface snowpack information from the vantage point of space. But there remains much that is unknown about the fluffy white stuff. Read More
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Two new staff appointments have been made recently in CIESIN’s Science Applications Division. Sylwia Trzaska, a climate scientist specializing in climate variability and change in Africa and other developing regions, has joined CIESIN as an associate research scientist, effective January 16. She is helping to lead a project on African and Latin American resilience to
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The record funding of 333.5 million UAH have been provided from the State Budget of Ukraine for 2012 for the implementation of land reform. For comparison, in 2011 it was allocated 9.2 million UAH, the Chairman of the State Agency of Land Resources of Ukraine Sergiy Tymchenko announced at a press conference. Read More
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The Ministry of Lands and Resettlement is working hard to improve its land administration procedures and capacity to facilitate successful social and economic development of the country. The project will focus on improved procedures in cadastral examination, recording and archiving, harmonised land registration and cadastral systems, geodetic network, increased land administration capacity and improved monitoring of
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Statoil, together with its Luva field partners, has selected a Spar platform to develop the field. As a gas transport solution has also been decided, a major step has now been taken towards deep-water production in the Norwegian Sea. The Luva field, which is a deep-water pioneer in the Norwegian Sea, may be the first to
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
A study published in Nature Climate Change this week measured both the biomass of different types of tropical forests and the emissions lost via deforestation, providing more accurate data than was previously available, according to lead author Alessandro Baccini. That’s important for creating confidence in nascent carbon markets. Read More
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Finland comes up notoriously short in the Alps department, as successive failed attempts to lure the Winter Olympics in this direction have proved beyond doubt, and the capital region is particularly poorly furnished with anything much larger than an ambitious molehill, but there might just be a “Mount Helsinki” on the map if one dogged
