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Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Urban Environment-Oriented Traffic Zoning Based on Spatial Cluster Analysis

Environment-oriented traffic management zoning (TMZ) provides an important way to study spatial variation of urban traffic environment. The TMZ can be used to manage the urban traffic environment and establish regional improvement strategies. In this study, a spatial immune cluster method based on aiNet (Artificial Immune Network) is designed to facilitate the traffic environment zoning.

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

German TanDEM-X Satellite Returns First Images

BBC – Together with its twin satellite TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X will spend three years collecting stereo radar data for a global digital elevation model of the Earth’s entire landmass. This DEM will feature a global homogeneity and a relative accuracy of better than 2 m (10 m absolute) for a 12 m grid. Infoterra will be

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Forest Fires and the Law

“Fire management” is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, while safeguarding life, property, and resources such as forests and other vegetation in rural areas. It encompasses prevention, preparedness, early warning, detection and mobilization, suppression, and restoration (including research and technology transfer). It entails the appropriate use of natural

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Governor’s Office Releases Louisiana Earth

The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) recently announced release of the first public version of Louisiana Earth, an emergency planning resource to provide public access to near real time mapping information during disasters. The application relays critical information on response and recovery efforts for the Deepwater Horizon Rig incident, providing the

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act.

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

Image: County of Hordaland in Western Norway

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

The Look of Maps, the Latest Book from Esri Press Cartographic Classics Series

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 Emphasizes the Need for Utilizing RST for Equitable Development

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

Global Patterns of Cropland Use Intensity

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

Autodesk Launches Software Suites for Visual, Factory and Plant Design

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,