Thursday, August 16th, 2007
The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation is to build the Operational Land Imager for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre awarded the contract. The OLI will be the principal sensor on...
Monday, July 16th, 2007
A new study is advocating the development of an early warning system for glacial lake outburst flooding in the Himalayas. The study was supported by the UN's Environment Program Regional Office for Asia and the...
Monday, July 16th, 2007
Magellan has recently introduced a real-time centimetre accurate receiver that offers surveyors high precision in a low-cost GNSS receiver. With the new ProMark3 RTK system, surveyors can dramatically expand their business opportunities with a product that is...
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
The Fédération Internationale des Géometres (FIG) - the international federation of surveyors - held its annual Working Week, 14-18 May, in Hong Kong. The activities included the FIG General Assembly, held on 13 May. Forty five national...
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
East Timor, the youngest country in the world, celebrated the fifth anniversary of its independence from Indonesia on 20 May. It is a country of tremendous challenges -- it is one of the poorest in the world...
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report last week. It was the third in a series of four planned reports. The latest document says it is possible to reduce greenhouse gas...
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Almost 247 million people live in low elevation coastal zones, according to figures in a paper published in the journal Environment and Urbanisation. Scientists from the Centre for International Earth Science and the International Institute for...
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Petrochemical facilities that were built in an era before Computer Aided Design often have little or no documentation about the way things were originally constructed. That makes it difficult to design a refit. But lasers...
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
The Asia Pacific region is in the midst of rapid change. This change depends on information. Much of this information is concerned with questions that are fundamentally geographic in orientation -- such as the spatial patterns of...
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
A new urban planning system has been commissioned in Seoul. The entire South Korean capital can now be visualised down to street level. City planners are using the system as part of the development approval...
