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Monday, December 6th, 2010

GSA Releases GNSS Market Report 2010

GNSS market forecasting is of great interest to private and public GNSS stakeholders, for business and strategic planning and policymaking. According to the new GSA report, the market for GNSS will grow significantly over the next decade, reaching in 2020 up to €244 billion for the overall GNSS enabled market (accounting for the full retail

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Tokyo-Aomori Bullet Train Debuts

The Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori began full services Saturday on the extended section between Hachinohe and Shin-Aomori stations in Aomori Prefecture. The extension enables people to travel the 675 km between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori stations in about three hours and 20 minutes, about 40 minutes less than before. The full service came

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Cancún Climate Talks in Danger of Collapse Over Kyoto Continuation

The UN climate talks in Cancún were in danger of collapse last night after many Latin American countries said that they would leave if a crucial negotiating document, due to be released tomorrow, did not continue to commit rich countries to emissions cuts under th Kyoto Protocol. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (Alba) group

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Trimble Introduces the SiteFID Gas Monitoring Solution

The integrated surface gas monitoring solution provides consultants and landfill operators with an end-to-end solution. Field samples are recorded with GPS coordinates in real time during the field survey, which can then be transferred from the Trimble SiteFID monitor software on the handheld to back-office compliance applications for further analysis and reporting. The Trimble SiteFID meets

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Morocco Enjoys Considerable Solar Radiation

Morocco enjoys “considerable solar radiation,” that should be developed, French expert on energy policies aiming to mitigate climate change, Pierre Radanne, said. “Morocco enjoys considerable solar radiation,” which allows for meeting energy needs and exporting as well, Radanne told MAP on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico. This resource which Morocco enjoys, would

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

TerraSAR-X – Forest Imaging in Gabon for the United Nations

In Gabon, West Africa, the forest cover spans 210,000 square kilometres, or 70 percent of the total land area. It is hard for field researchers to get an overview of the situation and the frequent cloud cover in the tropics hinders observations from the air. Researchers at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena are studying

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Federal Government Approves New German Space Strategy

The German Federal Government adopted a new space strategy at its cabinet meeting on 30 November 2010. The paper defines the fundamentals of how the high-technology space sector is to develop over the next few years at a national level and in so doing, how it must respond to changing political and societal conditions on

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Russia’s GLONASS System Complete on Sunday

A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket will deliver three Glonass-M satellites into the orbit on Sunday, completing the forming of the global navigation system, a representative of Russian space agency Roscosmos has said. The rocket will blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 03:25pm local time (10:25 GMT), he said. Read More

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Licensing Models: Unavoidable Nuisance or Necessary Component?

ESDIN was well represented at the GSDI 12 conference in Singapore in October. Laila Aslesen (WP 5) shared her thoughts at the end of her team’s work on licensing models for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Read More

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Bridging Theory and Practice: How to License Spatial Data from Many Sources

ESDIN was well represented at the GSDI 12 conference in Singapore in October. Laila Aslesen (WP 5) shared her thoughts at the end of her team’s work on licensing models for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. The presentations below take you from the background through the approach to the conclusions of this work. They then go on to