Thursday, August 19th, 2010
SSE Telecoms, the telecoms business ofScottish and Southern Energy, has selected GE’s Smallworld NetworkInventory solution as their asset management system, GE announced today.The Smallworld Network Inventory solution will increase the efficiencyand accuracy of network access records to enable a new level of customerservice across SSE Telecoms 8000km UK-wide fiber optic network. “We selected GE’s Smallworld Network
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
The UN-REDD Viet Nam Programme is inviting qualified companies or consortia to express their interest in the following assignment: * Establishment of historical forest status maps at district level. Full details can be found at http://www.vietnam-redd.org/Web/Default.aspx?tab=newsdetail&zoneid=107&itemid=124&lang=en-US. Deadline for submission: 17 September 2010.
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Four eastern Himalayan countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal – officially commenced a three-day high-level technical consultative meeting in Kathmandu on the ‘Sacred Himalayas for Water, Livelihoods, and Bio-cultural Heritage’. The meeting is being organised by ICIMOD and the Royal Government of Bhutan and expected outcomes will create a roadmap leading to the proposed
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber section has now made available forest products data for 2009. Data have now been released:
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
3D GeoInfo 2010 aims at bringing together international researchers from academia, industry, and government in the field of 3D geoinformation. We are inviting researchers and companies to participate and present their activities to international experts in the field of 3D geo information technology. The conference offers an inter-disciplinary forum in the fields of:– Data collection and modelling: advanced
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
RapidEye announced today that Santiago & Cintra Consultoria, its distributor in Brazil, will now have an expanded sales territory in South America which includes the countries of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela. John Ahlrichs, Vice President of RapidEye commented, “Santiago & Cintra Consutoria has strongly and successfully organized and developed the Brazilian market for RapidEye data since becoming
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document Shipping emits considerable amounts of air pollutants which affect the climate, the natural environment and human health. In collaboration with the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA), SMHI has developed a new system for calculating emissions from shipping. Knowledge of these has previously been very limited. Shipping is undoubtedly the most significant source of sulphur emissions,
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document SMHI has been commissioned by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to organise a training programme on climate change for decision makers from West Africa. Preparations and selection of participants are currently being carried out, before the course start in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in November. Read More
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document If an oil spill wasn’t responsible for the formations in these TerraSAR-X images, they might seem like the work of an artist. The images were acquired over the Gulf of Mexico on 9 July 2010. For researchers, such imagery is key in forecasting the distribution of the oil slick. Read More
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce Leica SpiderWeb v4.0 aspart of the new reference station software update that also includes Leica GNSS Spider v4.0 andLeica SpiderQC v4.0. SpiderWeb v4.0 features an all-new Business Center web portal combinedfor SpiderWeb and GNSS Spider Network RTK Services and the unique Coordinate ComputationService has been further enhanced. Leica
