Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
PromapSolutions, has secured a win in the utility sector to provide Cambridge Water with Ordnance Survey MasterMap (OSMM) Topography Layer Mapping for the next three years. The contract was awarded to Landmark PromapSolutions following a review of Cambridge Water’s current mapping provider. Cambridge Water will use the detailed landscaping of the OSMM Topography Layer as part
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
As a nation, we are experiencing a long slow emergency. As collapses go, our decline is comfortable and scenic. But we should be under no illusion: if we continue down this track, New Zealand will gradually become a backwater, delivering an ever poorer environment for everybody. Our children will grow up cheering for the Wallabies. That’s
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Africa Renewables Ltd., headquartered in London, is actively recruiting for more than 70 new forestry and biomass production jobs in Ghana to support the country’s first wood chip supply chain venture. The project will harvest redundant rubber trees from the Ghana Rubber Estates Ltd. plantation for chipping and sale to European utilities and energy traders, according
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Researching in small target detection based on radar makes it necessary to search for targets with a signal to noise (clutter) ratio of less than 1. In order to detect targets in such environments VisSim has developed an extensive library of pattern recognition and parameters analysis algorithms for studying of sea clutter. For this research VisSim
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Visualization Sciences Group SAS (VSG) announces that it has signed a definitive agreement today under which VSG acquires Noesis SA, a leader in image processing and analysis software. For more than 20 years, Noesis has been developing software solutions addressing advanced image processing needs in scientific and industrial applications. Around its flagship product Visilog, Noesis has
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
NASA will invite 25 of its U.S. Twitter followers to a Tweetup expected to culminate in the launch of the first of a new generation of Earth-observing satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on Monday, Oct. 24. NASA’s NPP satellite
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Indonesian peatlands are one of the largest near-surface pools of terrestrial organic carbon. Persistent logging, drainage and recurrent fires lead to huge emission of carbon each year. Since tropical peatlands are highly inaccessible, few measurements on peat depth and forest biomass are available. We assessed the applicability of quality filtered ICESat/GLAS (a spaceborne LiDAR system)
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
The 9 September deadline for letters of intent is approaching fast for proposals of experiments relevant to climate change that use the International Space Station as a platform. The International Space Station (ISS) offers breathtaking views of our planet to the astronauts, allowing them a front row seat to Mother Nature’s vast repertoire.ESA is soliciting proposals
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Remnants of Hurricane Irene caused heavy flooding, as shown in this August 31 Landsat 5 image, in the hamlet of Pine Island in the town of Warwick (Orange County), New York. Sometimes called “the drowned lands” (long before Irene), the fertile black dirt region is the remains of a great shallow lake formed by receding
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
The National Geographic Institute ( IGN ) ended onAugust 24 the photogrammetric survey conducted in the province of Chaco, through a cooperative agreement with the provincial government. The study will enrich the database of the province through the images taken, as well as update the national cartography. Thus, the province of Chaco will have a strategic tool for development and
