Sunday, November 14th, 2010
“Geohazard Supersites” is a an initiative in the sprit of GEO, providing access to spaceborne and in-situ geophysical data (multi-sensor SAR, GPS, seismic, etc.) addressing earthquake, volcano, and other hazards. The space component of the initiative is led by ESA and NASA; easy access to Earth science data will promote their use and advance scientific
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
BMT ARGOSS, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has secured a contract with Eneco, one of the leading energy companies in the Netherlands to deliver accurate wind forecasts for the Dutch energy provider’s onshore and offshore locations. This service will allow Eneco to better anticipate changing conditions and adjust planning when necessary. Generators of wind
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
Oceanographers worldwide, united in the Partnership for the Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) – where VLIZ represents the Belgian marine scientists – and the organisation ‘Oceans United’ will plead on the GEO Plenary and Ministerial Summit for a more systematic monitoring of the state of our global oceans. By means of recent and innovative
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
A three day ship-based multibeam training course, organized within the EUROFLEETS programme, and with an instructor from Kongsberg Maritime, will be held in Bergen, Norway on board R.V. G.O. Sars. from the 25th to the 27th January 2011. This practical ship-based training course will allow technicians and scientific personnel to acquire the practical skills necessary
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
The Road Engineering Association of Malaysia (REAM) has committed to participate in the above competition. As required by the World Road Association (PIARC), a National Level Competition will be held for the participation of interested Malaysians. As such, the rules of the competition will be in tandem with those set by PIARC. Read More
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Framed by the scenarios, the use of monitored data, model results and qualitative estimations contributed to the assessment of the impacts on the North Sea ecosystem services and related economic opportunities. A further step of integration was the merge of the DPSIR framework and the ecosystem services approach, which assisted in drawing connections between sea
Friday, November 12th, 2010
All major oil and gas/condensate fields, all major oil and gas pipelines including those under construction and planned, LNG import and export terminals, gas processing plants and underground gas processing facilities and oil refineries and tanker terminals. Read More
Friday, November 12th, 2010
AND Automotive Navigation Data, the independent Dutch mapmaker of navigation mapping data, has completed the map of North America. The full Digital Map of Canada and the USA is now available for commercial use. The vector-based digital map has more than 11.5 million kilometer. The map contains all roads, streets, house numbers, cities and villages.
Friday, November 12th, 2010
The Climate and Vulnerability Commission recommended in their report (SOU 2007:60) that Lantmäteriet should be commissioned to produce a New National Elevation Model (In Swedish: Ny Nationell Höjdmodell) with high accuracy. (Standard error should be better than 0,5 m for grid points in a 2 metre grid). During 2008, Lantmäteriet prepared a production plan for
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of an OGC Web Services (OWS) Publish/Subscribe (PubSub) Standards Working Group (SWG) to meet the need of many geospatial applications to provide notification of events such as a sensor reading falling below a certain threshold or new data becoming available as a service. Often the events need
