Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a grant of $451,000 to Clark Labs in support of their current work with Google.org in the development of on-line tools for REDD projects. REDD, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, is a climate change mitigation strategy that offers developing countries and others incentives to reduce
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Ordnance Survey and Monopoly joined forces this week to produce a London map plotting the squares featured on the Monopoly board and pinpointing the location of “Go” to mark the 75th anniversary of the ever-popular family game. Launched earlier this year, OS OpenData was the best way to create a bespoke map for Monopoly’s celebrations. From
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The cosmodrome Baikonur continues preparations for the launch of a space rocket “Proton-M” with the upper stage DM-2 and a block of three Russian navigational satellites Glonass-M. Yesterday, at the Launch Complex 81 area specialists Roskosmos completed work on schedule the second seed in the morning dnya.Segodnya calculations professionals Baikonur began recruiting home readiness of the
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Energy Visions 2050 considers measures for addressing the enormous future challenges facing the energy sector, focusing on technological and techno-economic perspectives. The analysis of the development of technologies covers the whole energy chain, highlighting the necessity of efficient energy use in all activities of societies. The contents include a discussion on potential future low-emission and
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Sustainable development is continuous and controlled social change that is taking place worldwide. Its ultimate objective is to secure the opportunities for a good life for present and future generations. The real estate and construction cluster plays a key role in promoting the sustainable development objectives because its environmental impacts and significance to the national
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The newly created Integrated Application Promotion (IAP) programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting public and commercial end-user organisations to propose ideas and suggestions for new services in the Baltic, focusing particularly on maritime issues. The aim is to generate ideas leading to new services that will improve business performance and operations, help enforce
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
An indigenous community in one of Cambodia’s poorest provinces has received new funding in its effort to set up an eco-tourism site at a lake that was recently returned to villagers from private ownership. The mostly indigenous ethnic Kuoy residents of Romchek village in northeast Preah Vihear province are to receive a share of almost US$20,000
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The reduction of emissions forms a key objective for the European Commission and the Europe 2020 Strategy confirms the 20-20-20 targets aiming at a reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions. The maps of this month show European regions that are affected by excessive emissions in different transport policy scenarios. The flags on the map warn
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers formed a new product group — the AEM Geospatial Industry Group — to serve manufacturers of various types of surveying/positioning systems such as GPS and GIS/LIS. Product groups in AEM provide a forum for manufacturers of similar equipment to discuss and take action on industry issues of mutual interest. The
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
The Lockheed Martinteam developing GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite system known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed on-schedule a System Requirements Review (SRR), an important program milestone that precedes the Preliminary Design Review. With launch scheduled to support start of operations in 2013, Lockheed Martin is developing GeoEye-2 under a fixed price contract to support
