Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Within 24 hours of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, space agencies and companies around the world tasked satellites with providing free images of the earthquake’s aftermath. Experts quickly analyzed and interpreted images taken from space,...
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
A recently launched website aimed at passing down the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to future generations, using a 3-D digital satellite map, is gaining public attention, following a similar site on the Nagasaki atomic...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Australian scientists are putting the finishing touches on a highly advanced tsunami warning system in a remote desert region north of Perth. Researchers say the array of sensors is the first in the world able to make...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Krakatau (also known as Krakatoa), a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, has been intermittently active for the past several decades. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The survey by RACV subsidiary Intelematics Australia took in the 26 busiest commuter routes in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, measuring traffic data over two years. After Thomastown the slowest traffic on Melbourne's seven busiest arterials was...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a pixel worth to a substation? Electrical substations are everywhere — generation substations, transmission substations, distribution substations, privately owned substations and the list goes on. Not as...
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The first major opposition to the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 will be in the form of a three-day dharna here beginning on Wednesday by the project-affected people. Various peoples' movements under the...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
For the first time in India, Manipur has introduced Geographic Information System (GIS) for mapping schools located in remote areas of the State. With the introduction of GIS, effective monitoring can now be done whether or not funds...
