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
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), a wholly owned US subsidiary of Topcon Corporation, announced that it has been selected to supply GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) receivers and software for Anhui Province Continuously Operating Reference Station Network (AHCORS).The AHCORS network is designed to provide full coverage of Anhui Province of China with network RTK capability and
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Carl Bass, President and Chief Executive Officer of Autodesk, Inc. will ring the NASDAQ Opening Bell remotely from Autodesk’s office in San Francisco, California on Thursday, June 24 at 9:30 a.m. (ET). NASDAQ lists approximately 516 companies from California with 206 companies from Silicon Valley. The ceremony will be broadcast live on the NASDAQ seven
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Researchers at the University of New Brunswick were among a few scientists worldwide to pick up a new GPS signal last week. The test signal was transmitted by the recently launched IIF-1 satellite, a new breed of GPS satellite that delivers a new, stronger signal, said UNB researcher Prof. Richard Langley. Before now, there were
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
A 3D excavator guidance system is helping the earthmoving subcontractor to beat the schedule by 15 percent on a $9-million channel repair project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Topeka, Kansas. Jim Ebert, project manager for the contractor, says the Leica Power Digger 3D systems improve the excavators’ efficiency because no grade checking
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
At the Council, the texts of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Programme Resolution and Programme Proposal were approved by all Member States, with Germany and Portugal voting yes ad referendum. This defines the scope and cost of the programme. In addition, 14 Member States confirmed their support for the programme itself, with the remaining Member
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The prestigious British Cartographic Society (BCS) Award was presented to The Highland Council at the 2010 awards ceremony held last week during the Society’s Annual Symposium at the Village Hotel and Conference Centre in Nottingham.The BCS has recognised innovative use of mapping at the recently held BCS Symposium entitled “Talking with Maps” that attracted over
