Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Green Chile – a multimedia project that seeks to promote innovative ways to protect the environment and increase energy efficiency – announced winning initiatives this week that aim to promote environmental awareness and energy efficiency with the hope that investors will find the initiatives to make good business sense. Read More
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered the construction of a 600 MW thermal-power plant in the central province of Thanh Hoa on Saturday. Eighty-five per cent of the VND22.26 trillion (roughly US$1.15 billion) Nghi Son 1 project will come from Japanese official development assistance with the rest contributed by Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN). Once
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
GPS surveying equipment has officially measured one of the most challenging peaks in Wales at over 3,000 feet.Climbing enthusiasts feared that modern equipment could see Tryfan in Snowdonia – one of Wales’s ‘elite’ peaks – lose height and fall below the 3,000 foot marker that makes it one of the nations highest peaks. The measurements did
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
SSC is involved in the TanDEM-X missions in more than one way. During the launch on June 21, two SSC polar ground stations were used: the Esrange Station in Sweden at 67º 53″ North, 21º 04″ East and the Inuvik Station in Canada at 68º 30″ North, 133º 30″ West. Both these stations are members
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
More than 1200 scientists from around the world have gathered in Bergen, Norway, for ESA’s week-long Living Planet Symposium to present their latest findings on Earth’s environment and climate using data from observation satellites. Addressing the participants, the Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Trond Giske underscored the importance of Earth observation saying that it is
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
LE FIGARO – La Compagnie du Vent, a subsidiary of GDF Suez, is to initiate a major project offshore wind farm off the coast of alabaster and Picardy to 14 km offshore Tréport.This ambitious project, which has no equal in Europe, would emerge in the scenario preferred by the client says “Large Project”, a fleet
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Within the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System project GITEWS (Rudloff et al., 2009), a feasibility study on a future tsunami detection system from space has been carried out. The Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is an innovative way of using reflected GNSS signals for remote sensing, e.g. sea surface altimetry. In contrast to conventional
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Environment-oriented traffic management zoning (TMZ) provides an important way to study spatial variation of urban traffic environment. The TMZ can be used to manage the urban traffic environment and establish regional improvement strategies. In this study, a spatial immune cluster method based on aiNet (Artificial Immune Network) is designed to facilitate the traffic environment zoning.
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
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Viet Nam will extend payments for ecosystem services throughout the country following the success of a two-year pilot project. Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai announced the decision at an international workshop to discuss Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), held in Da Lat, the Central Highlands, yesterday. Southeast Asian and Chinese governmental officials and private-sector
