Monday, August 2nd, 2010
This atlas provides the first truly global assessment of the state of the world’s mangroves. It reveals that rare and critically important mangrove forests continue to be lost at a rate three to four times higher than land-based global forests. Written by a leading expert on mangroves with support from the top international researchers and
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
A final remainder about GIS-IDEAS2010 abstract submissiondeadline on 31 July 2010.We have got very good response from authors. Look forwardto more last-minute submissions. Read More
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
CSIRO – “It’s underfoot but often forgotten yet our soil resources are crucial to our very existence,” says the Chief of CSIRO Land and Water, Dr Neil McKenzie. “Any gardener or farmer knows that soil is an astonishing material. It’s the natural reactor in the landscape that forms the basis for our supply of food,
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Google hosted its first Geo Teachers Institute, an intensive two-day workshop in which 150 educators received hands-on training and experience with Google Maps, Google SketchUp and Google Earth, including features like Mars, Moon and SkyMaps. Attendees from around the globe not only learned how these products work, but also discovered tips and resources for introducing
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
They are just hints but still, such tantalizing hints of ancient city walls, a basalt gate, and buildings immolated in a mysterious fire thousands of years ago. High-tech methods, known as remote sensing, are “seeing” through the ground at the University of Toronto’s archeological dig in south Turkey, with everything but X-ray vision: This year,
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
EuroGEOSS for Biodiversity – New approaches to monitoring and forecasting at the global scale. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Best Practices in Maintaining and Updating Seamless Data Coverage in a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Best Practices in Maintaining and Updating Seamless Data Coverage in a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Scotiabank has signaled its support for businesses looking to cut their energy costs. The firm announced in a release on Friday that its commercial and small business banking units have signed deals with three local companies in the small, medium and large categories to finance ‘green’ projects aimed at helping them source renewable energy equipment,
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Convective rainfall is often focalized in areas of moisture convergence. A close relationship between precipitation and fast variations of vertically-integrated water vapour (IWV) has been found in numerous cases. Therefore, continuous monitoring of atmospheric humidity and its spatial distribution is crucial to the operational forecaster for a proper nowcasting of heavy rainfall events. The microwave
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Giant blades lay strewn around the field as if a helicopter had crashed. Leaving in a rush on a summer day four years ago, Glen Lux mistakenly forgot to unplug the brake and a strong gust brought his big wind machine to life, the six blades spinning in an out-of-control blur. Read More
