Saturday, April 16th, 2011
There is a growing need to describe and quantify the heterogeneity in soil carbon pools in forests. In landscapes where topography is an important control on geomorphological, hydrological and/or biogeochemical processes, topographic features can be useful for partitioning the landscape into homogeneous units of soil carbon. Of particular interest are topographic features that are rare
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The West African telecommunications giant, Globacom, has launched its footprint onto the Ghanaian market with its data service, Glo One, after much anticipation of its entry as the sixth licensed mobile telephony company in the country. The company chose to start its grand entry into Ghana with its 640 gigabyte per second 9,800 kilometre long fibre
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
A new web-based interface is now available to GNSS community thanks to the EU-funded project TestCase: the GSTI (GNSS Simulation and Testing Infrastructure) provides access to detailed information about testing tools or infrastructure, including location, technical features, conditions of use, typical use cases and points of contact. TestCase project is managed by the French company
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Please find attached an invitation to attend a high-level event for the launch of a UNEP Finance Initiative study on REDD finance. The event will take place on 6 May at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Headquarters in London. In addition to senior representatives from financial institutions already active in forest- and REDD-finance, we are
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
So far 1,900 exhibitors from 44 countries have booked stands at the world’s largest exhibition for agricultural machinery and equipment, Agritechnica 2011, to be held in Hanover in November. As the organiser DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society) reports, this represents an increase in exhibitor figures of about ten per cent by comparison with
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Launched in November last year, Digimap for Schools provides easy, online access to Ordnance Survey’s most detailed digital mapping for the whole of Great Britain. It was awarded Gold Certification for the most innovative new educational resource available to teachers. The service is designed to improve the teaching of geography in schools – reflecting changes in technology
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
You are cordially invited to a workshop on “The Social Inclusion of the Peruvian REDD Process – a multi-level governance issue”, jointly organized by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the German International Cooperation (GIZ). The workshop will take place on 26th of April, 9.00 am to 1.15 pm, at Hotel Sol
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The INSPIRE Directive foresees the development of Implementing rules for spatial data services and for network services allowing spatial data services to be invoked. The Commission decided to split the development of the implementing rules for the spatial data services in 2 phases:(1) An exploratory phase to refine the framework for the development of the implementing
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
1Spatial, a holding company focused on improving the quality and access to business critical location-data across the globe, is pleased to announce that on 15th April 2011, it entered into a binding share purchase agreement relating to the acquisition of Lagen Spatial pty Limited (the “Transaction”). Lagen Spatial pty Limted (“Lagen”), based in Sydney, is
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Microsoft will launch “Streetside”, its own version of Google’s mapping service StreetView, on Bing maps in the second week of May in the UK. A Microsoft spokesman said the company has started collecting 360-degree photos of streets in London. Next month the company will start gathering images form other countries in Europe including Germany, France
