Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Sri Lanka's marine researchers are planning to use aerial and underwater unmanned vehicles with remote sensing technology to study the oceans around the country, officials said. Sri Lanka's National Aquatic Research Agency (NARA) wants to team up...
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
The system, named Kyoto University Radiation Mapping System or KURAMA, is ingeniously simple. First, equip buses with radiation detectors and GPS, and as they scour the city on their daily routes they can collect data from all...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
The interdisciplinary research project CRC TR32: “Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Systems: Monitoring, Modelling and Data Assimilation” works on matter fluxes between soil, vegetation and atmosphere (SVA) on a regional scale. In this regard, high quality land use data is...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
This summer the world’s first smartphone to support GPS and GLONASS, the ZTE 945, was announced. Today we’re announcing wider support for GPS and GLONASS. Any device with a Snapdragon ™ S2 or S3 processor is capable...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Almost a year after the amended Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification was introduced by the Union Government’s Ministry of Environment and Forest, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday approved the proposal to appoint an organisation to...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Making a competition for 3D mapping, Nokia takes you on tour of what they can do for 3D maps now. With Nokia Maps 3D you can now search for local attractions, restaurants, and shops, and get directions in...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
The Earth wobbles. Like a spinning top touched in mid-spin, its rotational axis fluctuates in relation to space. This is partly caused by gravitation from the sun and the moon. At the same time, the Earth's rotational...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Insufficient human resources was a major challenge for Viet Nam in responding to climate change, said head of the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry's Personnel and Organisation Department Ta Dinh Thi. Thi said that although Viet Nam launched...
