Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
A ton of new features were added to Google Earth in 2007. The official release of Google Earth version 4 was made on January 10th. But, since that product was available in beta during the last half of 2006, I’m not even going to count those new features for 2007. Read More
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
PR – The International Space Exploration Conference 2007 (ISEC 2007) taking place in Berlin (D) from 8 to 9 November will welcome 500 high-level representatives of stakeholder groups from political institutions, the scientific community, industry and applied research organisations, public organisations and the general public. ISEC 2007 will be the platform to present the
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
In 1999 a United Nations declaration called for action to improve the efficiency and security of transport, search and rescue and geodesy by promoting universal access to and compatibility of space-based navigation and positioning systems. An Action Team on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) was established in 2001 and lead to the establishment of an
Monday, October 29th, 2007
PR – One new permanent GPS station will be included in the EUREF Permanent Network : the station BORR (Borriana) in Spain is operated by the Cartographic Institute of Valencia. That station will contribute to the EUREF-IP special project. EUREF
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Echo Sofia – FCC Construccion of Spain would build the infrastructure adjoining the Vidin-Kalafat bridge under an agreement signed between representatives from the transport ministry and the developer, Investor.bg reported on October 26. Under the terms of the 62.6 million euro deal, FCC Construccion will build a 15 km railway line, the electrical and lighting
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Three-fourths of Americans surveyed believe that either being smarter about development or improving public transportation are both better long-term solutions for reducing traffic congestion than building new roads, according to a survey sponsored by the National Association of Realtors and Smart Growth America.
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Complex modelling work completed by CSIRO has helped identify and solve flow distribution problems at BP’s Bulwer Island refinery, saving the company millions of dollars in operating costs. In what could be a world first, researchers used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to develop a complete, three-dimensional reactive model of a fluidised bed catalytic cracker regenerator to
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
For five successful years, the Sustainable City Awards have remained at the top of their field by constantly re-inventing themselves and this year the awards have a new name and new categories to better reflect current issues in the field. Most responsible organisations now understand that sustainability lies at the heart of long-term business success
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
In the frame of the European Global Navigation Satellite System Evolution Programme, ESA is launching a call for ideas for advanced radio navigation applications concepts. ESA is currently initiating system studies aiming at defining the directions that should be taken for the evolution of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS): Galileo as the global
Friday, October 12th, 2007
MigMap conveys a picture of how and where the production of knowledge is currently taking place in the area of migration – and of who is participating in and has access to it. MigMap investigates precisely how the new forms of supranational governance that can be observed in the European migration regime function. It looks,
