Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Australia has a low seismicity (or rate of occurrence of earthquakes) when compared to countries located along tectonic plate boundaries such as New Zealand or Indonesia. Seismic risk, however, is the combination of hazard, community exposure and...
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Shorelines present complex environmental and engineering issues to those charged with their management. These issues are becoming more difficult and more political, particularly in SE Asia where people are only now seeing the multi-faceted benefits of coastal...
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Rolta has entered into partnership with Augusta Systems Inc., a provider of technologies that power the intelligent convergence of devices, systems and networks, which will enable it to incorporate Augusta EdgeFrontier middleware for use in security, defense...
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
The World Cup 2010 is set to begin. For the first time Africa will host the World Cup and a month...
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Yahoo's crush on location-based offerings appears to be building steam. A day after announcing a new mapping alliance with Nokia, Yahoo said it has acquired Asian location-based service Koprol. Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Koprol is similar to...
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Infoterra and its Malaysian partner IMS have now installed a TerraSAR-X Virtual Ground Station at the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA) in Kuala Lumpur: Following the delivery and installation of all necessary technical equipment as well as...
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Since 1954, the Singapore Land Authority (then know as the Survey Department) has been publishing a comprehensive street directory of the city. Until 1995, it was prepared manually. After that, the production process went digital,...
Friday, January 4th, 2008
It is data policy that determines the health of remote sensing, not skill in designing, building or operating spacecraft. This is the opinion of Bob Ryerson, a former head of the Canadian Centre for Remote...
