Monday, October 31st, 2011
DigitalGlobe today announced that NTT GEOSPACE (NTT KUUKAN JYOUHOU CORPORATION) has launched a new online geospatial intelligence service powered by DigitalGlobe. The service, named GEOSPACE CDS, features on-demand access to...
Monday, October 31st, 2011
The United Arab Emirates has reopened negotiations with France regarding the acquisition of a military surveillance satellite that would allow the Gulf Arab nation to monitor Iranian activity. Talks between UAE and France regarding the satellite may...
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Researchers used DNA sequencing, global positioning system (GPS) and Google Earth technologies to track typhoid transmission in Kathmandu, the rapidly growing capital city of Nepal, where thousands fall ill with typhoid fever each year. They found disease...
Monday, October 31st, 2011
China will have launched 20 rockets and 25 satellites into space by the end of 2011, indicating that the country's space exploration is "highly intensive," an aerospace expert said Sunday. China launched 15 rockets to send 20...
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Thailand's Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), which is supporting FROC information management, has won the United Nations ESCAPs' permission to access near real-time flood data from the global constellation of earth observation satellites. ESCAP is...
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
The Tamil National Alliance has approached the courts to restrain the government from going ahead with its decision on the ‘land circular' — a term that refers to the decision that temporarily suspends all distribution of land...
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
As the world's biodiversity hotspots are increasingly stressed by their human neighbors, zoning is becoming a common strategy to balance environmental protection and human needs. But a recent study conducted by Michigan State University researchers shows zoning...
Friday, October 28th, 2011
The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) has been targeted in a cyber attack, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Takeshi Maeda told a news conference on Oct. 28 -- the latest in a series of...
Friday, October 28th, 2011
A large area around Chennai extending up to Chengalpattu and Kancheepuram is set to be designated as one single urban region for planning purposes. In the face of rapid increase in population in the districts surrounding Chennai...
Friday, October 28th, 2011
A new planning document for Dunedin could bring about major changes to the face of the city, as planners look at ways to deal with an expected extra 7600 residential units needed by 2031. The city's "spatial"...
