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Friday, March 11th, 2011

Fugro NPA RapidEye’s First UK Distributor

RapidEye announced today that Fugro NPA Ltd. has signed an agreement with RapidEye to be its first reseller in the UK covering the territories of  Britain and Ireland. John Ahlrichs, Vice President of RapidEye commented, “Fugro NPA is a great addition to our distribution network. Their long history supporting the British market in addition to

Friday, March 11th, 2011

3-GIS Multiple Award Winner at Esri Partner Conference

3-GIS, an Alabama based software development and services company has been named ‘Esri Business Partner of the Year for 2011’ and has also been awarded the ‘Partners Choice Award’. The awards recognize 3-GIS’s achievements in leading the development of thin client, web-based solutions based on Esri’s ArcGIS Server while delivering excellent customer service to its

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Insights from Oil Spill Air Pollution Study Have Applications Beyond Gulf

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

Slovenia Concludes the Presidency of the Alpine Convention

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

Biodiversity and Livelihoods: REDD-plus Benefits

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

Mapping the Footprint of Ore Deposits in 3D Using Geophysical Data

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

Urals Federal University Can Now Handle Satellite Data in Real-time

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

Energy Monitoring System a World First for iCon Building

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

DIGISOIL Survey 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 Introduces Ultra-Small SXBlue GPS L1/L2 RTK Receiver

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