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
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
ScanEx specialists released a new version of ScanEx TaskFlow® application. It is intended for automation of any data flow processing, including RS data. The application enables to create and perform tasks of step-by-step batch processing of large data volumes using a random set of console programs. Execution of such a task allows to user to
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The European Union’s greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory report, compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA), shows that emissions have not only continued their downward trend in 2008, but have also picked up pace. The EU-27’s emissions stood 11.3 % below their 1990 levels, while EU-15 achieved a reduction of 6.9 % compared to Kyoto base-year
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
In commemoration of EARTH’s twentieth Anniversary, EARTH University and its graduates, with the support of the Costa Rica Tourist Board (ICT), CNN and Cummins are organizing a simultaneous global tree planting on June 5, World Environment Day, called EARTH Plants the Future. Tree plantings have been organized by EARTH alumni in over 26 countries, and planting
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the integration of its civil engineering design and stormwater modeling and analysis applications to further enhance workflows and facilitate collaboration. The applications include Bentley’s InRoads, GEOPAK, PowerCivil for North America, MXROAD, CivilStorm, StormCAD, and
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Getmapping has made a spectacular start to its 2010 aerial imagery flying season, capturing over 25,000 square kilometres using both its established fleet of Vexel digital cameras and a new VisionMap A3 large format camera. By the end of May, Getmapping had completed its aerial survey of Wales, begun in 2009, completed the whole of
