Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The 2004 Asian Tsunami caused dramatic damage, but there are other threats. Remote sensing technologies are evolving quickly and provide tools for monitoring such tropical forests so the team set out to compare three methods. Image differencing is...
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
An atlas, which traces historical events comprising the Freedom Movement of India in geo-spatial depiction, was released at the Geo Summit 2011, held at the Satyabhama University here. Prithvish Nag, Director, National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO),...
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Last year, Japan produced close to one quadrillion watt-hours of electricity — that's 1 followed by 15 zeros. The vast majority of that — which translates into one billion megawatt hours (MWh) — came from coal, natural...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Thailand ranked the worst in disaster recovery readiness among eight countries in Asia-Pacific, defying the trend toward increasing use of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery programmes in the region, according to a survey. Conducted by the independent...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Some 11 infrastructure projects worth P15.5 million are underway in support to the health and education needs primarily of 2,983 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
The Waimakariri District Council have made available a five page report consisting of aerial maps of Kaiapoi. Each of the five maps shows consequences of the earthquakes in terms of liquefaction, the severity of damage over the...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
HCM City could save as much as 30 per cent of the energy it spends on transportation if it develops an efficient public transport system, a conference on energy saving heard yesterday. With its public transport inefficient, people...
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Nepal has ordered a new survey of Mount Everest to end the "confusion" over the exact height of the world's highest mountain, a government spokesman has said. The official overall height of Everest is designated as 8,848m (29,029ft). But...
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Japanese map publisher Zenrin Co Ltd may acquire 24% stake for $30 Mn in CE Info Systems Pvt Ltd, which runs MapMyIndia.com, an online map service. The deal will value MapMyIndia at $125 Mn. If the deal...