Monday, August 2nd, 2010
CSIRO – “It’s underfoot but often forgotten yet our soil resources are crucial to our very existence,” says the Chief of CSIRO Land and Water, Dr Neil McKenzie. “Any gardener or farmer knows that soil is an astonishing material. It’s the natural reactor in the landscape that forms the basis for our supply of food,
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Google hosted its first Geo Teachers Institute, an intensive two-day workshop in which 150 educators received hands-on training and experience with Google Maps, Google SketchUp and Google Earth, including features like Mars, Moon and SkyMaps. Attendees from around the globe not only learned how these products work, but also discovered tips and resources for introducing
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
They are just hints but still, such tantalizing hints of ancient city walls, a basalt gate, and buildings immolated in a mysterious fire thousands of years ago. High-tech methods, known as remote sensing, are “seeing” through the ground at the University of Toronto’s archeological dig in south Turkey, with everything but X-ray vision: This year,
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
EuroGEOSS for Biodiversity – New approaches to monitoring and forecasting at the global scale. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Best Practices in Maintaining and Updating Seamless Data Coverage in a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Best Practices in Maintaining and Updating Seamless Data Coverage in a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Scotiabank has signaled its support for businesses looking to cut their energy costs. The firm announced in a release on Friday that its commercial and small business banking units have signed deals with three local companies in the small, medium and large categories to finance ‘green’ projects aimed at helping them source renewable energy equipment,
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Convective rainfall is often focalized in areas of moisture convergence. A close relationship between precipitation and fast variations of vertically-integrated water vapour (IWV) has been found in numerous cases. Therefore, continuous monitoring of atmospheric humidity and its spatial distribution is crucial to the operational forecaster for a proper nowcasting of heavy rainfall events. The microwave
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Giant blades lay strewn around the field as if a helicopter had crashed. Leaving in a rush on a summer day four years ago, Glen Lux mistakenly forgot to unplug the brake and a strong gust brought his big wind machine to life, the six blades spinning in an out-of-control blur. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
CyberCity 3D (www.cybercity3d.com) today announced that the 3D City Model of Marina del Rey, California is now available for viewing on Google Earth. Original Buildings Modeled for Google Earth CyberCity 3D’s use of Google Earth merges CyberCity’s cutting edge 3D buildings and city models with Google Earth’s ground-breaking ability to put the world’s geographic information
Friday, July 30th, 2010
In ASEAN, some countries like the Philippines and Indonesia still have to import food. Growing food is facing many challenges, especially due to the worsening climate. However, some huge countries like China and India have ensured their food supply. Thailand and Viet Nam are the top rice exporting countries in the world. Asia has just
