Thursday, January 12th, 2012
For strengthening the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), an outlay of Rs 750 crore has been planned during the 12th Plan. Speaking at the 11th annual meet of National Spatial Data Infrastructure conference, Mr Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor...
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
The Survey of India (SOI) has embarked upon a project for creating a national topographic database on a 1:10,000 scale for the entire country and aims to complete it during the 12th plan period, Surveyor General of...
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
It’s finished!!! After a decade of intense and dedicated work, the Forestland Boundary Assessment and Delineation for the entire Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula has been accomplished by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) particularly by...
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Deputy Chairperson of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has stressed the need for accelerating infrastructure development in the country to boost growth. Speaking on the sidelines of an event here, Ahluwalia said that the large projects which are...
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Autodesk, Inc. and Pitney Bowes Software, Inc., today announced they have entered into a strategic alliance agreement. The new agreement will serve as a framework for both companies to provide resources, services and solutions to help infrastructure...
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Fire is integral component of environmental systems throughout the world, including the Himalayas. Understanding fire patterns is...
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
The intricate interactions among the different sub-systems of earth: atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, geosphere and biosphere, make earth a single inter-linked system. Understanding these interactions can lead to improved prediction of weather and climate.
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
China launched a new high-resolution remote sensing satellite on Monday at 03:17 UTC using the Long March 4B (Chang Zheng-4B -Y26) launch vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, the...
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
It is often the case in interaction design that the best solutions simply get out of the way, allowing the user to achieve their goal and get on with their life. With Google Maps, this is certainly the...
