Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The trend of international land grabbing – when governments and private firms invest in or purchase large tracts of land in other countries for the purpose of agricultural production and export – can have serious environmental and social consequences, according to researchers at the Worldwatch Institute. Deals that focus solely on financial profit can leave
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
3tc Software, a leading provider of mission critical software applications to the UK public sector and global emergency services, now offers Cadcorp SIS as a GIS and mapping engine in their MODAS mobile data solution. The integration marks the start of a business relationship between the two companies – a relationship which has already resulted
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Geomorphologically speaking, the territory displayed on the image is the interbedding accumulative alluvial valley with a complex of cryogen topographic forms. The Yana river valley features the topographic forms, typical for large valley rivers: meanders, bayou lakes, floodplains. Vegetation: low-bush cotton grass tundra. Read More
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Huntingdonshire District Council has gone live with a new online mapping and information service supplied by Astun Technology. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ enables local residents to use their postcode or part address to find information about council services, and to locate facilities on maps. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ provides information about councillors, next bin collections, historic and new planning applications in
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The purpose of TdhGIS is to perform spatial analysis of data based on vector defined geometric data. This may include : Allocating point data to polygons. (e.g. assigning structures to hydrological basins). Allocating polygon data to other polygons. (e.g. allocating population data by census block to political boundaries). Creating thiessen polygons (e.g. for all hospitals within a state, define
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The role of a facilitator is to provide technical guidance and assist in the organisation of the data specification activities that take place in one of the Thematic Working Groups, while the editor prepares the UML schema and documents the data specifications according to the agreed pre-defined format. More information on the terms of reference
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
No one denies that all living organisms need food in order to survive, but not everyone draws an immediate connection between food and social, economic and environmental security. Food security is, in fact, something that the European Union takes very seriously. A new project, Plant and Food Security (or PLANTFOODSEC), is an initiative of the
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Research Councils UK (RCUK), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Universities UK (UUK) today (21 July) issued a joint statement on impact. The statement recognises the range of benefits that come from excellent research and states a commitment to continue working together to build on that excellence. RCUK, HEFCE and UUK have for
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
This article describes how Lidar (Laser or Light Detection and Ranging) can be used to collect data about coastal habitats. The article gives an introduction of the measurement principle and also explains how to plan for a Lidar-survey. More information about the conversion of collected data and the output of Lidar can be found in
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The crater of the Chilean volcano Puyehue displays a striking, circular outline in this image from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite – so this was not the culprit when a volcano in the southern Andes erupted on 4 June 2011. Instead, as the images from the German
