Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Alberta’s greenhouse gas reduction program continues to support a global clean energy future with 2009 emissions reductions being the equivalent of removing 1.4 million cars off the road and a clean technology innovation fund growing to $187 million. The 2009 results saw industrial emissions reduced by seven million tonnes from business-as-usual (emissions that would have
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
How do you account for carbon stored outside forests? Want to hear about experiences and challenges from case studies in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia? The World Agroforestry Centre invites you to a side event on Monday 7 June during the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice 32nd session (SBSTA 32) in
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Detailed marine mapping from SeaZone is helping Forewind Ltd plan and deliver its offshore wind energy project in the North Sea. Using HydroSpatial, SeaZone’s digital marine map, Forewind will undertake a comprehensive assessment of the maritime area to help identify potential sites for offshore wind development after successfully winning the exclusive zone development agreement for
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that Panaxx Corporation will be its distributor in Japan. Panaxx is the fourteenth company to join RapidEye’s quickly- growing worldwide distribution network. Learn More
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
HP today announced that Ingenieurgruppe Flösser GmbH is using its HP Designjet 4520 HD-MFP to deliver highly accurate printouts of architectural plans, to visualise and analyse its customers’ architectural designs. Based in Bad Säckingen, Germany, architectural engineering specialist, Ingenieurgruppe Flösser GmbH, is employed to assist customers with structural calculations during a building’s design process, to
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
To meet the growing need of people for increasing farm income and to minimize the negative environmental impact of today’s farm practices, a new farming concept has been evolved where inputs are fine tuned and optimized according to the local field variability such that yield increment is achieved with a minimum harm to the local
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, launched the Atlas on 4th May 2010 in Brussels at the European Parliament at the inauguration of an exhibition on the work of the Commission’s Joint Research Centre . The 144 pages atlas is the result of a three-year collaborative project with partners from northern EU
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The GIS Section is committed to providing the Urban Planning Council’s planning and development staff with analysis and products to support the planning process by using the most recent and accurate data available. The section plays an active role in forming linkages and standards with external agencies to ensure the best data sources are available
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The fonaso Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme invites applications on questions relating to national consequences and effects of international forest policy and the international forest regime. Under the theme “The international forest regime as driver for sustainable national forest policies” applicants are invited to submit relevant research proposals until 1 October 2010 (fonaso call 2.6
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Near real-time commercial monitoring of the Northern Sea Route and the freezing seas of Russia is initiated in behalf of the ice-breaking operations of the FSUE Atomflot. A contract on radar satellite imagery of the ice situation ordered by the FSUE Atomflot in 2010 has been carried out by ScanEx RDC. A network of 4
