Friday, October 7th, 2011
Onset announced today that Upward Innovations, Inc., a manufacturer of remote data retrieval systems, will integrate Onset’s award-winning, plug-and-play weather sensors into its DataGarrison Satellite Station for environmental monitoring. Now, environmental researchers have web access to reliable, high-accuracy climate data from Onset Smart Sensors deployed anywhere in the world via satellite communications – even in extreme
Friday, October 7th, 2011
“From climate change to energy security, and green growth, IRENA’s mission touches on the key issues of our generation. As such, the importance of its success cannot be understated,” said Al Jaber in his opening remarks at the inauguration ceremony . “This important milestone for the agency demonstrates the strong global determination to work cooperatively to
Friday, October 7th, 2011
The statement came from chairman of State Land and Cartography Committee of Azerbaijan Garib Mammadov at the press conference held at the headquarters of New Azerbaijan Party on occasion of 20th anniversary of the state independence. To him, during the official visit of Russian president Dmity Medvedev to Azerbaijan, final documents were signed between the two
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Leica Geosystems Inc. is pleased to announce that Tridex Solutions Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah, has purchased the Leica ALS70-CM Airborne Laser Scanner. Tridex has integrated the ALS70 with a Leica RCD105 Digital Frame Camera for initial deployment to Africa where the spatial imaging firm has experienced a 30 percent reduction in acquisition time
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
OpenDataRace is a contest to uncover Philadelphia-related data sets that are not yet available to the public. Non-profit organizations across the city have nominated data that would help them accomplish their missions and improve our region. Vote now for the data set that you think should be open and available. The top three data sets will earn
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced that it has been awarded a one-year contract at a funded level of $37.9 million by the U.S. Government via the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the NGA’s new Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (EGD) program.
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized five organizations and one individual as the 2011 WaterSense Partners of the Year. More than 2,200 partners make WaterSense labeled products and new homes more affordable and easy to find, including the six Partners of the Year who have shown outstanding contributions to water-efficiency. WaterSense partners nationwide are
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
The first Soyuz flight from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana will carry the first two satellites of Europe’s Galileo navigation system into orbit is scheduled for 20 October. Follow the launch preparations on our new ‘launch special’. Read More
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
The deadline for submission of abstracts for the 5th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” has been extended until October 15. Abstracts of 1 page of printed text maximum should also contain information about the author (full name, organization, contact info), preliminary name of the section and form of presentation (oral,
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
The first high resolution satellite imagery is today released from NigeriaSat-2, as engineers from the Nigerian space agency (NASRDA) and the satellite’s manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) continue in the successful commissioning of the new satellite from NASRDA’s headquarters in Abuja. Testing of all the systems on-board the satellite has been successfully completed, and
