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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Environment: A Good Day for Salmon, Otters and Beech forests

Europe’s flora and fauna are now better protected than at any time in the history of the European Union. Natura 2000, Europe’s network of protected natural areas, has been expanded by nearly 27 000 square kilometres. This includes a major addition of marine areas covering more than 17 500 square kilometres which will increase protection

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Register for the DigitalGlobe IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

DigitalGlobe is supporting this year’s IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest which aims to explore multi-angular acquisitions over the same target area.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

CSDi is pleased to present a compilation of Community Based Adaptation Field Activities—complete with links to source materials and technical information—compiled from case studies & from projects developed by CSDi field partners & online students. We encourage you to submit activities:

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

CENN: Discussion of Report: Assessment of Land Management Legislation

The Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC Caucasus) in partnership with the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) is implementing the regional project Sustainable Land Management for Mitigating Land Degradation and Reducing Poverty in the South Caucasus Region. The project is being implemented with the financial support of the European Union and covers the Khrami-Debeda

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Full-scale Ops of Russia’s GLONASS to Start by July

Full-scale operations of Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) are expected to start sometime in January–June, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Director Anatoly Perminov said, ITAR-TASS reported Tuesday. In early December 2010, Perminov said GLONASS was expected to reach global coverage in March 2011. At present, GLONASS has 21 operational satellites among a total of 26 satellites of

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

SMAP Digital Map Management System

SMAP Technologies Inc. is an electronic map supplier, providing navigation system, LBS, Internet Map, and GIS projects for applications in various fields. Besides Taiwan, SMAP digital map database also includes Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, etc. Moreover, SMAP is eagerly planning to establish the map data of the countries in southeast Asia and looks forward to

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

New HCA UK Engineering Panel to Save Time and Money for Local Authorities

The Homes and Communities Agency has today announced the successful companies appointed to a new framework panel designed to enable local authorities and other public sector organisations to access technical engineering services more quickly and at a greatly reduced cost. A total of 15 companies have been appointed to the Agency’s new Engineering Panel, and will

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

USGS Forest and Climate Change Expert Named 2010 AAAS Fellow

Craig D. Allen, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year 503 members have been awarded this peer-nominated honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New Fellows for

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

ERDAS APOLLO 2011 Now Available

ERDAS proudly announces the official release of ERDAS APOLLO 2011, now available for download on the ERDAS website. ERDAS APOLLO is the market-leading enterprise solution for managing and delivering massive volumes of distributed geospatial data and imagery. This server-based offering is available in three product tiers to suit a wide spectrum of organizations – from

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Intergraph® Releases New Version of Enterprise Viewing and Markup Software

Intergraph® has released the newest version of its enterprise viewing and markup software solution, SmartPlant Markup Plus.  SmartPlant Markup Plus enables efficient and cost-effective precision view, markup and related capabilities for the many different types of engineering and business documents used in the process, power and marine facility lifecycle. Read More