Monday, April 18th, 2011
The findings of a study published today in Nature Climate Change indicate negative effects on the growth of a long-lived south-east Australian and New Zealand inshore species – the banded morwong. Scientific monitoring since 1944 by CSIRO at Maria Island, off the east coast of Tasmania, showed that surface water temperatures in the Tasman Sea have risen
Monday, April 18th, 2011
A technology demonstration satellite project part-funded by the UK’s national innovation agency is ready to start construction having passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). TechDemoSat-1 will function as a combined orbital testbed and showcase for some of UK industry’s most promising space technology, aimed at winning substantial international business in the future. It will give
Monday, April 18th, 2011
AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe, in 2011, enters into its seventh year of existence pursuing its overall goal to support the needs of all groups of the society in South-East Europe for access to, sharing and using geographic information (GI). AGISEE works towards the development of an infrastructure that allows users
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has given assent to the proposals regarding agreement of 120 Megawatt Taunsa hydro-power project and mapping of wind power potential in the province. He gave this approval while presiding over a meeting of the provincial cabinet at Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Saturday. Addressing the cabinet meeting, Shahbaz said Pakistan was facing serious
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
IDC Energy Insights today announced the availability of a new, industry-leading study that reveals the critical need for the utility industry to implement business analytics solutions to support automation processes, to make better capital investment decisions, and to empower customers to manage their energy lifestyles. According to the study, the utility industry is expected to be
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