Saturday, June 26th, 2010
In Nova Scotia, we believe the environment and the economy can thrive together. We believe a healthy environment is the foundation of a prosperous economy, and that a prosperous economy allows us to manage our environment wisely. Many examples of that dynamic already exist in our province and there is a vast potential for more. That’s
Friday, June 25th, 2010
ALOS satellite image over the county of Hordaland in western Norway illustrates the region’s diverse landscape of fjords, mountain plateaus and fertile valleys. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Esri Press is proud to expand its cartographic classics series with The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design by Arthur H. Robinson. The series also includes Cartographic Relief Presentation by Eduard Imhof and the soon-to-be-published Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin. Originally published in 1952, The Look of Maps is based on Robinson’s
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Omar Abdullah said that Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics programmes can contribute in a big way to solve various problems. “It can enhance the capability of surveying and monitoring the natural resources at low cost and at high speed. The space application programmes can prove as a highly effective mechanism to identify villages and areas requiring
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
This study presents a global scale analysis of cropping intensity, crop duration and fallow land extent computed by using the global dataset on monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas MIRCA2000. MIRCA2000 was mainly derived from census data and crop calendars from literature. Global cropland extent was 16 million km2 around the year 2000 of which
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The first three products, part of a new family of design suites, are: Autodesk Design Suite, for architects and designers working with AutoCAD software; Autodesk Factory Design Suite, for machine and equipment builders, system integrators and manufacturers who design, visualise and simulate layouts of machine lines and entire manufacturing facilities; and Autodesk Plant Design Suite,
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday its has collected a trace amount of gas, which could be vaporized material from asteroid surface samples, from inside a tiny capsule released by Japan’s Hayabusa unmanned space probe earlier this month. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
As the 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference is about to begin in Edinburgh, DMCii has launched a new service specifically tailored to help in the fight to conserve global forests. DMCii’s Global Forest Monitoring service uses satellite imagery to produce easily-understood maps of forest cover change. Uniquely, the service’s wide-area forest surveys can be updated annually,
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
GLOBIO is a tool to assess past, present and future impacts of human activities on biodiversity. Since 2002 the model has been extensively used for environmental assessments on the global to national scale. Read More
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Get the single-source solutions guide to the sustainable management of water resources (download).Why is water the environmental issue? The answer is simple: without it, life on this planet could not exist. Yet, despite this fact, reckless consumption practices from a growing population are drying up the Earth’s already limited water resources. Other factors, such as
