Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
3D imagery of buildings and terrain of India's major cities, including Rashtrapati Bhavan and PMO, could soon be seen in Google Earth with the government contemplating to give permission for uploading pictures of the country's metropolitan areas. Home...
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
A team from Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) was here recently as part of the work on multi-hazard vulnerability mapping of the coastal as well as the inland areas of Puducherry town. The...
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
China’s air force dispatched a drone to the site of an earthquake in the far-western region of Xinjiang on Friday to help in monitoring work, the first time it has used an unmanned aircraft for such a...
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
For Indonesia’s cash-strapped government, policing revenue across a chain of 17,000 islands that would stretch from New York to Alaska is no easy task. Remote areas on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, where most of the...
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has drawn a year-long plan for its centenary year. The organisation, which completed 100 years on Wednesday, will unveil sculptures and hold discussions with the aim of generating awareness on conservation...
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kicks off his Digital India project in Indore with a video conference. The initiative will connect 10 village panchayats with high-speed internet service starting tomorrow. Work to connect 335 village panchayats with high-speed...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
India's infrastructure output expanded for the first time in three months in May, posting an annual growth of 4.4 percent, which was also its fastest in six months, government data showed on Tuesday. Output had fallen by an...
Sunday, June 14th, 2015
In Indonesia, land conflict is a longstanding and growing problem, along with deforestation and haze pollution. These are often by-products of rapid expansion of agriculture, forestry and mining, driven by the ever-soaring demand for commodities. The uncertainty over...
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Xinhua, March 9, 2015 — China's most advanced Earth observation satellite, the Gaofen-2, was put into service on Friday after being launched in August. Read More via Want China Times
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Aurangabad, March 9, 2015 — Stressing on the importance of Geographic Information System (GIS) in fields like agriculture, industries , defence and environmental protection, Ambadas Jadhav, the head of the Geography department at Mumbai University said the latest...
