Friday, March 11th, 2011
During a special airborne mission to study the air-quality impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill last June, NOAA researchers discovered an important new mechanism by which air pollution particles form. Although predicted four years ago, this discovery now confirms the importance of this pollution mechanism and could change the way urban air quality
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Yesterday, we launched the XIth Alpine Conference here at Brdo. We started by highlighting our common achievements in making the sustainable development of the Alpine world possible and in addressing issues that we have been confronted with in the past 20 years, since the signing of the Alpine Convention. The discussion, which focused on exchanging
Friday, March 11th, 2011
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (giz) have published a booklet on ‘Biodiversity and Livelihoods: REDD-plus Benefits’ (available in English at http://www.cbd.int/forest/publications.shtml. Spanish and French versions will follow shortly at the same URL).
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Geologists identify rocks mainly through identifying the minerals they contain. These might include the minerals which make up the majority of rocks we see at the Earth’s surface, such as quartz or feldspars. They could also be minerals which are more commonly associated with ore deposits, such as pyrite (fool’s gold), pyrrhotite or magnetite. Geologists
Friday, March 11th, 2011
The center of Space Monitoring will start to operate at the Urals Federal University. Opening ceremony of the Center and putting into operation of the Earth remote sensing data reception station is to be held on March 15 at 13:00 at the Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technologies. (Yekaterinburg, 32 Mira street). National technology of
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The award winning iCon environmental innovation centre in Daventry, UK, has become the first building in the world to have an innovative self-adjusting Wireless Building Monitoring System installed by energy management company, Seamless Sensing.The state-of-the-art £8.5m building, offers office accommodation and a supportive environment for firms working in green technologies and sustainable construction. Currently under
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The Soil Action of the Joint Research Centre would like to invite you to take part in a survey about a digital soil mapping tool, developed in collaboration with the DIGISOIL consortium. This new technology makes use of a number of geophysical techniques in order to produce detailed, geo-referenced digital maps of soil properties and
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Geneq Inc. announces an ultra-small SXBlue GPS L1/L2 dual frequency GPS RTK receiver for high accuracy positioning. One of the smallest dual frequency RTK GPS receivers in the world, weighing only 268g (~1/2 lb) and having dimensions of 11.26cm x 8.54cm x 3.53cm (4.43” x 3.36” x 1.39”), the SXBlue L1/L2 GPS is designed to be mounted on vehicles
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
LiveData, Inc. announced that the company’s SmartGrid Manager has received a 2010 Smart Grid Excellence Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Intelligent Communications Partners (ICP). LiveData SmartGrid Manager is a data integration and visualization system that verifies the health of systems that run the electric power grid.LiveData solutions are the trusted real-time middleware of
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Intermap Technologies announced the completion of their 3D Roads – the only dataset to provide highly accurate 3D models for every road, from the largest highway to the smallest urban and rural roads, throughout Western Europe. Derived from a radar-generated 2D road network combined with height information from the Company’s NEXTMap digital terrain model, 3D
