Monday, June 7th, 2010
The health of marine ecosystems is declining, and use conflicts in the marine environment are increasing, in part because of new needs for ocean space for emerging industries such as wind and wave energy and aquaculture. Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is a process for analyzing and allocating the spatial and temporal distribution of human activities
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Carbon dioxide emissions from agricultural activity in the United States can now be tracked with unprecedented resolution because of a method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read More
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
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
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Remote geophysical data acquisition tools, such as gravity and magnetic surveys, have proved very successful in mapping the underlying geology of the Australian continent. Similarly, these geophysical methods can also be applied in Australia’s offshore areas for mapping the continental margin using marine vessels (surface and submarine) and aircraft. The use of airborne magnetic surveys
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
At the opening session of the Green Week conference in Brussels, the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) unveiled two new tools to combat biodiversity loss: BISE (the Biodiversity Information System for Europe) and ‘Biodiversity baseline’. BISE is a web portal centralising information about European biodiversity in a single location. The baseline offers
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
One of the challenges in working with Depiction is finding data and formatting data you have to use in your files. This session will help users overcome that challenge. Read More
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Ireland’s designated continental shelf area superimposed on a shaded relief image of bathymetric data collected under INSS, PAD and GEBCO. Read More
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Experts from Europe and Canada are a step closer to establishing an international network focusing on geospatial quality issues after meeting recently in Brussels. Discussions between specialists from EuroGeographics’ Quality Knowledge Exchange Network and Canada’s GEOIDE Network’s researchers, who are working on legal, ethical and data quality issues related to geospatial data, revealed many common
