Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
-BYD and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) have finished construction on what may be the world’s largest battery energy storage station. This large utility-scale project, located in Zhangbei, Hebei Province, combines 140 Mega-Watts of renewable energy generation (both wind & solar), 36 Mega-Watt-Hours (MWh) of energy storage and a smart power transmission system.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Dr. Khalid A.Rahman Al-Haidan Director of GIS Directorate, Central Informatics Organization said that the GIS Directorate represents the centre of GIS in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Since the establishment of the GIS Directorate in 2002, in the new organisational structure, the Directorate is keen on undertaking and executing projects that reflect positively on the development of
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Citizens of Harrison County, West Virginia, can easily determine their election districts and poll locations through an interactive map developed using free web templates from Esri. The county, which has just under 70,000 residents, also plans to use Esri templates to offer a real-time election results viewer.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
From UNEP’s contribution to the UN’s ‘International Year of Forests’ to the rapidly evolving analysis of how to catalyze a global transition towards a Green Economy, 2011 has proven to be a defining year for the environmental pillar of sustainable development as the world heads towards Rio+20 in June 2012. Read More
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
From UNEP’s contribution to the UN’s ‘International Year of Forests’ to the rapidly evolving analysis of how to catalyze a global transition towards a Green Economy, 2011 has proven to be a defining year for the environmental pillar of sustainable development as the world heads towards Rio+20 in June 2012. Read More
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that Municipality of Recanati in Italy selected SuperGIS Server 3 Value Edition to integrate and distribute large spatial data to multi client users. SuperGIS Server 3 is designed to create, manage, and share various GIS resources across an enterprise via Web effectively.
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
To better predict the health of ocean fish stocks, a team from the University of Malta and the European Commission Joint Research Centre statistically compared ocean color values from satellites with values collected in the field. Surface runoff from land can affect ocean fish stocks by inhibiting the vitality of chlorophyll in phytoplankton – the basis
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Vestas has received a wind power order for 17 wind turbines V112-3.0 MW turbine for a wind farm in Poland. Vestas has received an order for 17 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine for Poland. The wind power contract comprises supply, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines as well as a 12-year service
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
This work deals with the applicability of a star photometer to retrieve precipitable water vapor (W) at night-time by means of direct irradiance from stars using a 940 nm narrowband filter. Retrievals are assessed with simultaneous data from a Raman lidar system and linked with day-time values from a sun photometer using measurements taken from
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
To enhance coastal resources and develop livelihood of coastal communities, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) region 2 has institutionalized the implementation of the integrated coastal resources management project (ICRMP) to 12 participating local government units of Cagayan. The project was implemented in the marine corridor of Cagayan, which was identified by the Philippine
