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Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Development of Agricultural Land Market in the Russian Federation

Development of Agricultural Land Market is unique in Russia as compared to other countries. The super goal of modern Russian Agrarian and Land Reform is to create the conditions and incentives to provide sustainable development of agricultural production and to solve the country’s food problem.

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Position Announcement for REDD+ Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) Specialists

Effective with the release of this announcement, Winrock International is seeking applications from highly qualified professionals for REDD+ Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) Specialists for upcoming projects on building institutional and technical capacity to support the sustainable implementation of REDD+. Position is contingent upon receipt of donor funding. 

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Esri and IBM Netezza to Deliver High-Speed Geospatial Analytics

Geospatial technology and spatial data types from Esri will soon be integrated into the IBM Netezza analytics appliances. This will give federal agencies and customers in industries such as energy, retail, telecommunications, and health care the capability to query and geospatially analyze enormous datasets at very fast speeds.

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Volcanic Canary Islands By Satellite

The subtropical Canary Islands off Africa’s west coast are pictured in this Envisat image. The Canary Islands’ favourable climate and beaches attract over 12 million visitors per year. Perhaps some beach-goers were on those aircraft that left the multiple contrails over the dark blue water to the north.Because the archipelago is far away from areas with

Friday, October 14th, 2011

exactEarth Delivers 3 Billionth Vessel Location Message in 2011

exactEarth announced today that it has surpassed the 3 billion mark for maritime vessel location messages delivered to its customers to date in 2011. With a growing, advanced high performance satellite constellation coupled with a dedicated data processing center in Toronto, Canada, exactEarth is delivering an unprecedented operational capability of Satellite Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) for

Friday, October 14th, 2011

RapidEye Secures Multimillion Euro Contract With the European Space Agency

RapidEye, a leader in wide area, repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of five satellites announced today that it has secured a multimillion Euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA).

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Launch of New Korean Satellite Put Off Again

The launch of the multi-purpose satellite Arirang 5 has been postponed indefinitely after notice from Russia. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology on Wednesday, the decision was caused by internal circumstances facing the Russian government and Cosmotrust, the Russian launch service company. Read More

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Ottawa to Protect Riches of Strait

The rich environment of the southern Strait of Georgia is slated to become a national marine conservation area, giving extra protection to the marine life and water, but allowing most recreational and commercial activities to continue. Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent, speaking Thursday at Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre in Sidney, said that after years of discussion,

Friday, October 14th, 2011

BCS Group Takes Over Digital National Framework

BCS is delighted to announce the formation of the new Location Information Specialist Group (LISG) built on the foundations of the existing and successful BCS Geospatial Specialist Group.  As part of the extension of the role of the Specialist Group, it is also able to announce that it is taking over responsibility for the Digital

Friday, October 14th, 2011

ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 3 Now Available to Download

ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available from the Esri Support Center. This service pack contains several performance improvements and maintenance fixes and is available for the following languages: Read More