Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Forests, grasslands and shrublands and other ecosystems in the West sequester nearly 100 million tons (90.9 million metric tons) of carbon each year, according to a Department of the Interior report released today. Carbon that is absorbed or “sequestered” through natural processes reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The 100 million tons
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
The global movement to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020 – known as the “Bonn Challenge” – gains further momentum at the UN Climate Talks in Doha today, as Costa Rica and El Salvador each commit up to1 million hectares. The 50 million hectare mark – or one third of
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Europe’s third Galileo satellite has transmitted its first test navigation signals back to Earth. The two Galileo satellites launched last October have reached their final orbital position and are in the midst of testing.http://www.asmmag.com/components/com_jce/editor/tiny_mce/plugins/article/img/readmore.png); “>The third Galileo Flight Model, known as FM3, transmitted its first test navigation signal in the E1 band on 1 December,
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Aerial survey specialist Bluesky has taken UK mapping to the next level by adding height information to Ordnance Survey’s digital maps. Using detailed 3D models Bluesky has added a range of height attributes to more than 50 million buildings. The height values attributed by Bluesky to the map layers would, if added together, reach almost to
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
This summer, record temperatures and limited rainfall parched vast areas of U.S. cropland, and with Earth’s surface air temperature projected to rise 0.69 degrees Celsius by 2030, global food production will be even more unpredictable, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute (www.worldwatch.org). Although agriculture is a major driver of human-caused climate change,
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama will exhibit in Booth #119 at the 2012 Esri Middle East and Africa User Conference and Expo. The expo will be held December 10-12, 2012 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company in Abu Dhabi, UAE. 3-GIS President, Tom Counts and 3-GIS Program Direction, Lee
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
The U.S. Geological Survey (a bureau of the Department of the Interior) and NASA presented the 2012 William T. Pecora awards for achievement in earth remote sensing to Gilberto Camara of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and Leung Tsang of the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded grants to 45 college teams in phase I of its People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) annual student design competition. Each grant, totaling up to $15,000 per team, for an overall amount of $675,000, is applied toward designing and developing sustainable technologies to help protect people’s health
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
MAPPS, the national association of private sector geospatial firms, has announced a program providing first-class business, technical education, and market opportunities for its annual Winter Conference, to be held January 27-31, 2013 at the Trump International Resort in Sunny Isles (Miami) Beach, Florida.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
The Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI) has joined forces with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) through the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The relationship with OGC will be especially strong with the CRCSI’s Spatial Infrastructures research program.
