Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The Bruce County Map Factory is an online interactive map which supplies property information such as zoning and official plan designations for those who would prefer to find the information themselves. Labels for select layers can be turned on/off with a click on the ‘label toggle’ located beside the layer name. Information for Layer Data can be seen by
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Baku Today reported that the number of applications filed before the qualification Commission area from persons seeking to obtain the qualification certificate of cadastral engineer amounted to 380. Allowed to pass a qualifying examination-376 people, and successfully deposited exams-230 applicants. Meanwhile, since 1 January this year under the Federal law “on State real property cadastre” cadastral activities
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Foster + Partners will be opening its Battersea studio to the public as part of the 2011 London Open House weekend. Entry is to the mezzanine floor, where there will be a display of recent projects and visitors will have a view over the 60-metre studio. A number of buildings in London designed by Foster +
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The estimated price tag of development of the giant Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea will be presented to the investors in October. A final investment decision is expected in December. Despite the situation on the world market, development of the Shtokman field is justified, says Head of the Department for Structural Analysis in Shtokman
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Following weeks of heated debate in the agricultural press over granting farm tenants the “absolute right to buy” their farms, SNP MSP Rob Gibson raised the issue in the Scottish Parliament this week. Mr Gibson, the newly elected convener of the Scottish Parliament’s cross-party Rural Affairs Climate Change and Environment Committee, weighed into the land reform
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
Analysis of dynamic processes in the Arctic based on remote sensing data, the experience of satellite-based monitoring of ice situation and of information support to ships navigation in the waters of northern seas is presented on the pages of the magazine. In addition, the authors tell about the practices in using satellite images during detection
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
Initiatives are continuing to lift Ukraine’s moratorium on the sale of agricultural land. To the surprise of many commentators, Parliament passed the Law on State Land Cadastre, well ahead of the expected Autumn 2012 schedule. The next logical step towards lifting the moratorium would be the adoption of the Law on the Land Market. Several
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Norway has just finished the first season of seismic survey in the newly established border area in the Barents Sea. Russia plans to start in 2012. The vessel “R.V Harrier Explorer” and the company PGS Exploration has just finished this year’s surveying of the Barents Sea floor. A total of 11,400 linear kilometres of two-dimensional seismic
Friday, September 16th, 2011
The recently launched Nigerian earth observation satellites will significantly boost the country’s capabilities for natural resource management as well aid disaster relief through the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, the Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Ita Okon Bassey Ewa, has said. Speaking in Abuja while presenting his ministry’s scorecard in the last 100 days, Prof Ewa said
Friday, September 16th, 2011
A Russian Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has been scheduled to lift off on October 1 to put another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit, a Space Forces spokesman said. The launch has been postponed following two failed space launches in August which led to the loss of a Progress space freighter and the Express-AM4 communications satellite. Read
