Thursday, December 15th, 2011
I’m referring to disaster preparedness. We all know how many lives have been lost, how many homes, schools, roads, and other facilities and infrastructure have been destroyed by earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and other calamities. German watch, an international...
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Support must be given to the efforts of developing countries to improve data collection, Sha Zukang, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, told the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi (13 December). "We must establish partnerships...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The idea for LINZ contracting the collection of some bathymetric LiDAR data came about for a number of reasons; to measure the performance of the latest Airborne Laser Bathymetry (ALB) systems; to collect data in Wellington Harbour...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Ed Linacre, an industrial design graduate of Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, has won the 2011 James Dyson Award for his Airdrop irrigation system. In developing the promising new irrigation-by-condensation technique, Linacre has captured the attention of...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Downscaled models and better evidence about what the large models are saying about future threats for these regions are drastically needed. It is also essential to mainstream the authoritative collection of weather station data, to make it...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The historic 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan back in March may have fallen out of the public news cycle, but the massive rebuilding efforts continue. Now Google has launched a Web site dedicated to...
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
At an event hosted by a private college to commemorate the launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-18, Associate Director of Thiruvananthapuram based Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, John P Zachariah said that indigenous Indian space technology...
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute said that a multi-purpose satellite named Arirang-5 will take off from the Yasny rocket launch site in Russia next year. One of four Korean satellites planned for 2012, the Arirang-5 is the nation's...
