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Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Onset Announces Live Webinar on Monitoring-Based Commissioning

Onset announced a live webinar on Wednesday, June 29, at 2:00pm EDT entitled, An Innovative Approach to Low-cost Monitoring-based Commissioning. The hour-long webinar, presented by NorthWrite, Inc. CEO and co-founder Patrick J. O’Neill, Ph.D., will discuss an innovative, low-cost approach to Monitoring-based Commissioning (MBCx) that helps identify, implement, and track cost-effective energy saving measures in small and

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering

On May 19, 2011, the Mississippi River reached a historic crest at Vicksburg. According to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) of the U.S. National Weather Service, the river reached 57.10 feet (17.40 meters) that day. By early June, flooding had receded considerably around Vicksburg, but water remained high. On June 14, the AHPS reported

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Farming the Cities, Feeding an Urban Future

As people move from rural to urban settings in search of economic opportunities, urban agriculture is becoming an important provider of both food and employment, according to researchers with the Worldwatch Institute. “Urban agriculture is providing food, jobs, and hope in Nairobi, Kampala, Dakar, and other cities across sub-Saharan Africa,” said Danielle Nierenberg, co-director of

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Ordnance Survey Celebrates 220 Years of Mapping the Nation

From military beginnings, mapping the south east coast of Britain for fear of invasion by Napoleon, through to the modern digital age, Ordnance Survey has played a constant and vital role for charting the changing face of the nation for over two centuries.

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Cont-Trak – Container Tracking Via Satellite

Whether at sea, on rail, stacked or stored, shipping containers can now be tracked worldwide via satellite with Cont-Trak, developed through ESA’s telecommunications programme. Field trials have been carried out at a container depot in Halifax, Canada to test different stacking situations, and during shipping from Europe to North America. Containers were fitted with Cont-Trak terminals,

Friday, June 17th, 2011

GMES Operations Another Step Closer

Today, the European Commission has signed an agreement confirming the transfer of funds to ESA for the initial operations of the space component for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. The agreement, which secures €104 million, was signed at ESA Headquarters in Paris by Heinz Zourek, Director General of the European Commission’s DG Enterprise

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Early Bird Registration Rate for 53rd Photogrammetric Week

There are still three months to go for the opening of the 53rd Photogrammetric Week to be held at the University of Stuttgart, Sept. 5 to 9, 2011. As the years before we have compiled for you an attractive program of lectures in the mornings (Conference Speaker, Keynote Speakers, Invited Speakers only) and hopefully excellent

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Multivariate Analysis for Biologists, Ecologists, and Enviromental Scientists

This five day workshop will explore statistical analysis of assemblage and multi-variable environmental data that arise in a diverse spectrum of environmental and biological science research, such as environmental impact assessments, basic studies of community ecology, monitoring of biodiversity and analysis of water quality indices.

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Important Depiction Support Update

We’ve discovered a fairly significant bug in yesterday’s Depiction update that corrupts saved Depiction files, and can also cause problems loading new files. We hope to have a fixed version of Depiction 1.3.1 available tomorrow morning, and we will email you when it is available. In the meantime, if you need to use Depiction before

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Earth from Space: Yukon Delta

This Envisat image features Alaska’s Yukon Delta, where the Yukon River, North America’s fifth-longest river system, fans out into a labyrinth of distributaries before emptying into the Bering Sea. Originating on the northern border of British Columbia in Canada, the Yukon flows some 3190 km across central Alaska in the US before emptying into Norton Sound