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Saturday, November 27th, 2010

Regional Forest Governance

The book “Regional forest governance – potentials for forestry and political drivers in integrated rural development policy” is available free of charge. Read More

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Coastal Futures Synthesis Report Analyzing Coastal and Marine Changes: Offshore Wind Farming as a Case Study

Many coastal areas are known for their resources and economic wealth, and many are famed for their scenic beauty. Use functions of the coast include among others fishing, shipping, port development, recreation, conservation, coastal defense or military defense. On the other hand coastal and marine areas experience physical and ecological as well as social and

Friday, November 26th, 2010

ECRINS – EEA Hydrographic Data Set Europe Available

’ECRINS’ is acronym for European catchments and RIvers network System. it is a fully connected system of watersheds, rivers, lakes, monororing stations, dams made from the JRC CCM2.1 and many other sources. Compared to CCM, ECRINS offers a smaller number (138,000 instead of >2,000,000) of elementary catchments which average size is 92km2. Only the main

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Online BIM Collaboration Webinar Breaks Down Barriers

On November 23, 11 colleagues around the world from GRAPHISOFT, Arktec, DDS-CAD, and Tekla Structures demonstrated the power of Open Collaboration without borders.  These professionals in Birmingham, Boston, Budapest, Helsinki, Madrid, Munich, Oslo, and Sydney used the GRAPHISOFT BIM Server to successfully demonstrate how Delta Server™ technology reduces network traffic to a minimum for instant

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Space Ministers Emphasise Priority to Deliver Galileo and GMES

ESA PR 2010-26 Ministers in charge of space activities representing the Member States of the European Space Agency and the European Union met in Brussels today for the Seventh Space Council. Today’s Council was jointly chaired by Sabine Laruelle, the Belgian Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, the Self-employed, Agriculture and Science Policy, on behalf of

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Making (radio) waves at the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair

As the coordinator of Day 0 at the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair, I (Nadia) wanted to expose participants to a mix of tools and methods that they could use to ‘make their ag knowledge travel’ in a feasible, realistic and meaningful way for their particular activities, in their contexts and for the people with whom

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Two new Earth Observation Missions Chosen for Further Study

As part of the procedure to realise ESA’s series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be the eighth Earth Explorer both address key climate and environmental change issues. The selection follows ESA’s Call for Earth Explorer Proposals that was

Friday, November 26th, 2010

European Space Imaging & Indra Espacio successfully complete multi-year supply project to the Spanish Ministry of Defense

European Space Imaging, a leading provider of very high-resolution satellite imagery, and Indra Espacio, a leading company in the Spanish space sector today announced that the two companies successfully completed a multi-year supply project to the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The supply project, with Indra Espacio as main contractor, started in September 2008 and involved the

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

New Book – “Why where Matters: Understanding and profiting from GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing”

By Stan Aronoff and co-authored with Dr. Bob Ryerson entitled “Why where Matters: Understanding and profiting from GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing”. This book is a less technical book addressed to the business and public policy communities and is also written for the general reader with an interest in how the new geospatial technologies including GPS,

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Register for the 25th International Cartographic Conference

Over 900 abstracts and papers from 72 different countries have been submitted, showing a tremendous interest in the discpline and in the 25th International Cartographic Conference. The scientific programme is guaranteed to be as varied as substantial! Keynotes speakers from different areas of expertise have been invited to bring other perspectives, among them the geographer Jean-Christophe Victor, who