Monday, February 1st, 2016
KUALA LUMPUR: A local community based organisation on landslides and slope safety, SlopeWatch embarked on a journey to educate hillside citizens on signs of slope failures to better equip them in an event of disaster such as...
Monday, February 1st, 2016
Satellite images used to highlight association between artificial lighting at night and incidence of diseases such as obesity, breast cancer and prostate cancer all around the world. Read More via Haaretz
Monday, February 1st, 2016
Tokyo - The government plans to develop a new geographical intelligence system based on images sent from satellites that could be used by the Self-Defense Forces to rescue Japanese nationals trapped abroad. Read More via Chicago Tribune
Monday, February 1st, 2016
Kochi: The city is nursing an ambition to embrace geographic information system (GIS) just like Singapore where it is used to analyze data related to land use, environment, population density and traffic movement. Here, Kochi Metro Rail...
Thursday, January 28th, 2016
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The launch of Russia's Resurs-P No. 3 remote sensing satellite has been scheduled for March 12, the Russian Space Systems (RSS) company said Wednesday. Read More via Sputnik News
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
On 22 January 2016, during The International Conference on Remote Sensing in Riyadh, King Salman and Chinese President Xi Jinping sign agreement for launching new Saudi Arabian satellite, Saudisat-5B. Under this agreement, Saudisat-5B remote sensing satellite will be launched...
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
France will partner India in its next Mars mission, which the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch in 2018. Read More via Deccan Herald
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
NEW DELHI/HONG KONG, Jan 25 (Reuters) - India will set up a satellite tracking and imaging centre in southern Vietnam that will give Hanoi access to pictures from Indian earth observation satellites that cover the region, including...
Monday, January 25th, 2016
The former head of the Country Fire Authority in Victoria and South Australia, Euan Ferguson, will head a public inquiry into the devastating Yarloop fire, Premier Colin Barnett has revealed. Read More via Yahoo Australia
Monday, January 25th, 2016
Abu Dhabi: The UAE became the latest member of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), a voluntary partnership of governments and organisations that was established in 2005 to promote the open access to Earth Observation (EO) data...
