Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Flooding situation in Accra, the capital of Ghana is increasingly becoming a ritual, my heart bleeds over deaths emanating from flooding which could have possibly be prevented. This calls for national concern and immediate re- planning of the Accra city and other flood zones. It has been noted, that among the natural hazards that do
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
A global killer that eludes capture by changing its coat, influenza is one of the world’s most intractable viruses and consuming public health challenges. It infects 5–15% of the world’s population and kills up to about half a million people each year; a figure that rose to many millions in the three major flu pandemic outbreaks that
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
The independent certification body, GL Renewables Certification (GL), have Approved the machine, making it “finance” and bolstering STI sales potential. The device features six Technological innovations, while global STI testing plan, Unprecedented in the industry, Involved component 618 trials at 100 Accredited laboratories and testing centers (300,000 engineering hours validation). The turbine stands out in the construction industry
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Ordnance Survey’s (OS) small and mid-scale OS Open Data products are to be included in Esri’s Community Topographic Base Map (CTBM). In 2010, Esri created the CTBM for geospatial data holders, such as governments and organisations, to contribute information to. Esri integrates this data in the CTBM and publishes it through ArcGIS Online as a map service. Many
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Europa Technologies has today announced two new services for the mobile telecom industry to provide accurate and up-to-date roaming coverage information. Network Insight Pro and Global Coverage Analyzer are the result of an alliance with American Roamer, the owner of the world’s largest wireless coverage database. Network Insight Pro is a new and innovative service offering interactive
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Tim Arcano, an ocean engineer with extensive experience in naval submarine and submersible design and engineering was selected as director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). Arcano is slated to begin Nov. 7. OER provides direction to NOAA and advises the U.S. Department of Commerce in the field of ocean exploration, research,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
A United Nations group established to preserve humanity’s documentary history has selected a portion of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat archive of Earth imagery to be added to the Memory of the World International Register. The continuous data record reveals both gradual change, as in glacier movement or coastline erosion, and sudden change, as in
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Lockheed Martin announced today that it will begin integration of GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, with the planned delivery of its integrated propulsion system to Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities later this month. The start of vehicle integration marks the on-schedule progress of installation and testing of satellite components and subsystems over
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher(R) cartographic software for Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) and Geographic Imager(R) geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop(R), announced the launch of the PDF Maps app, the first and only geospatial PDF reader on Apple iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that introduces a modern approach to discovering the world for
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
OpenGeo, the open source technology leader behind the OpenGeo Suite, has hired well-known software developer Martin Davis. Mr. Davis is best known for his core work on the JTS Topology Suite, he is joining OpenGeo during a period of rapid growth, and will be bringing his substantial expertise to the continued development of the OpenGeo
