Sunday, October 16th, 2011
U Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos has published his proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and set a target of introducing them by 2019. Read More
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Google has launched its Google MapsGL experiment to test 3D map rendering to its popular application. Check it out in Chrome and Firefox using new browser versions and graphics cards. Read More
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
The province is conserving Nova Scotia’s wetlands through a new policy, released today, Oct. 14. “Nova Scotians have told us they want to protect our natural environment,” said Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau. “Our wetland policy ensures we are taking steps to conserve these important ecosystems in our watersheds. Wetlands provide critical habitats for fish and
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
The Geodetic Society of Bosnia-Herzegovina became a Member Association of FIG in 2010, and invited a member of the FIG Council to attend the Congress 2011, held 28-30 September 2011 to make a presentation on the work of FIG to the delegates. Vice President Greenway attended the Contress. Over 200 professionals attended the congress, from Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Development of Agricultural Land Market is unique in Russia as compared to other countries. The super goal of modern Russian Agrarian and Land Reform is to create the conditions and incentives to provide sustainable development of agricultural production and to solve the country’s food problem.
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Effective with the release of this announcement, Winrock International is seeking applications from highly qualified professionals for REDD+ Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) Specialists for upcoming projects on building institutional and technical capacity to support the sustainable implementation of REDD+. Position is contingent upon receipt of donor funding.
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Geospatial technology and spatial data types from Esri will soon be integrated into the IBM Netezza analytics appliances. This will give federal agencies and customers in industries such as energy, retail, telecommunications, and health care the capability to query and geospatially analyze enormous datasets at very fast speeds.
Friday, October 14th, 2011
The subtropical Canary Islands off Africa’s west coast are pictured in this Envisat image. The Canary Islands’ favourable climate and beaches attract over 12 million visitors per year. Perhaps some beach-goers were on those aircraft that left the multiple contrails over the dark blue water to the north.Because the archipelago is far away from areas with
Friday, October 14th, 2011
exactEarth announced today that it has surpassed the 3 billion mark for maritime vessel location messages delivered to its customers to date in 2011. With a growing, advanced high performance satellite constellation coupled with a dedicated data processing center in Toronto, Canada, exactEarth is delivering an unprecedented operational capability of Satellite Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) for
Friday, October 14th, 2011
RapidEye, a leader in wide area, repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of five satellites announced today that it has secured a multimillion Euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA).
