Monday, February 14th, 2011
The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City has made prominent achievements in the field of data services during 2010 that included setting up a spatial data information base and delivering a host of significant projects under a comprehensive...
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The model will provide forecasters with a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These streams from the Sun may severely disrupt or damage space- and ground-based communications...
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
PT Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Jakarta says it will create jobs for around 48,000 people in the construction of the new transportation network. “This figure is based on the results of research we conducted earlier,” PT MRT Jakarta...
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Turkish Environment and Forestry Minister Veysel Eroglu said that Turkey would host the 10th United Nations Forestry Forum which is set to be held in 2013. Read More
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
About two months ago, renowned Korean scholar Choi Suh-myun received an unexpected package from Atsushi Hirata, director of the Ryukoku University Library in Japan. Choi was taken aback by its content: a masterful digitally enhanced recreation of a...
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The Geospatial Technology Update Seminar took place this morning. It was co-organised by the Geographical Information System, GIS Development, Survey Department, Brunei Institution of Geomatics, the Brunei Surveyors, Engineers and Architects Association, PUJA as well as the...
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The Raising National Water Standards project funded by the National Water Commission aims to develop a spatial algorithm for mapping plant water use (SAM-ET) to quantify multi-scale water productivity which is the most critical information for efficient water...
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Engineers at Japanese public broadcaster NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) have developed a system that can overlay Google Earth-like labels over live TV images from helicopters. Called SkyMap, the system relies on an additional datastream sent from the helicopter...
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Until recently, JAXA’s contritbution to GEO had focused on disaster management, through the Sentinel Asia Project, and using mainly the Advanced Land Observing Satellite DAICHI. However, since the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite IBUKI went into operation, JAXA...
