Monday, June 28th, 2010
Flash floods by the concentrated heavy rains occurred on June 15, 2010 (UTC) at the department of Var in the southern France, and this caused great damage. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have performed the emergency observation to monitor the state of the damage by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya say deal that excludes Egypt and Sudan ‘cannot be unsigned’ Read More
Monday, June 28th, 2010
As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to support women in computing, they are pleased to announce the 2010 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Google Female Student Grants to encourage more female computer science students to attend and participate in the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 Conference, November 2-5 2010, San Jose, California, USA. The winners will receive funds
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Foraging maps have certainly become a lot more popular in the last year. Here’s another Google Maps mashup showing where you can pick free fruit and vegetables in Germany.From the map sidebar you can select different categories of map marker to view on the map, these are Berries, Herbs, Nuts and Fruit. Under each category
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Epson America today announced its first solution for bringing interactivity to any projector– the IU-01 interactive module.This innovative, cost-effective classroom tool connects directly to a Windows or Mac computer via USB and provides an easy solution for integrating interactive capabilities with any new or existing projector while eliminating the need to purchase and install dedicated interactive
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Within the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System project GITEWS (Rudloff et al., 2009), a feasibility study on a future tsunami detection system from space has been carried out. The Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is an innovative way of using reflected GNSS signals for remote sensing, e.g. sea surface altimetry. In contrast to conventional
Monday, June 28th, 2010
The fire hydrant of the future will have a new mission in addition to fighting fires. Geared up with new data collection, storage and communication equipment, fire hydrants will play a key role in efforts to conserve water in the nation’s vast, complex water systems. Read More
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Some 120,000 ambulance, fire and emergency response operations are coordinated each year in the central situation center of the professional fire department in Essen, Germany using command and control software from Siemens. As one of many thousands of examples around the world, the situation center of the Ruhr region metropolis stands for Siemens’ initiative to
Monday, June 28th, 2010
All German government topo maps (Includes 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:200,000 scale topo maps from Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie) are now available for use with Fugawi Global Navigator,Fugawi Marine ENC and Geonav MapMaster. Read More
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Downloadable Navionics® charts from Fugawi X-Traverse are now compatible with Fugawi Marine ENC and Geonav MapMaster software for Windows 7, Vista or XP (Download Update Here) as well asMacENC for Mac OS X. Navionics Gold, HotMaps® and Fish’N’Chip charts are all available for direct download. No more time spent waiting for your charts to arrive or shipping costs to
