Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Civic agency NIT, which has been entrusted by state government to develop the Nagpur metro region, has taken another step in designing the plan of the region, which will act as a blueprint for developing it. Nagpur Improvement...
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Professor Chris Rizos, head of the University of NSW School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems (SSIS) in Sydney, Australia, was today named the new President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). The IAG advances the use...
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Baku, Fineko/abc.az Cartography factory of State Committee on Land and Cartography is working out the scheme of cities. Director of Cartography factory Mugabil Bayramov has reported that at present the factory is developing schematic plan of the capital. "...
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
The Aquino government continues to use technology and research in addressing and mitigating disasters in the country, said a Department of Science and Technology official. In a regular Communications News Exchange Forum last week at the Philippine Information...
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje today urged local officials to familiarize themselves with the geohazard maps, and implement the necessary measures to reduce the impact of natural disasters on people’s lives and properties. Paje...
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The expected construction boom in areas devastated by the March 11 disaster has arrived, but much grumbling is being heard despite the money pouring in from both the public and private sectors. Whispers of a "reconstruction bubble" are...
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The government, late on Monday night, announced a forward looking and new data sharing policy for India's Remote Sensing satellites. The new policy effectively breaks the monopoly that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had on the remote sensing...
Monday, July 4th, 2011
The contract, that includes the supply of GIS substations and power transformers2, has been signed within the framework of the Ministry of Electricity's "Mega Deal3" project to add more than 10,000 MW of power generation capacity in...
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Australia's national infrastructure body on Monday unveiled an 86 billion Australian dollar project priority list ranging from railroads to ports and urged lawmakers to overhaul the financing and planning of major public works programs. Creaking infrastructure has long...