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Yanmar, Chia Tai and XAG Empower Thai Agriculture through Innovation
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bitsensing Signs MOU with IKIO Technologies to Advance AI-Based Traffic Monitoring on India’s Expressways, Highways and Municipal Areas
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Satellites in the Developing World

Within 24 hours of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, space agencies and companies around the world tasked satellites with providing free images of the earthquake’s aftermath. Experts quickly analyzed and interpreted images taken from space,...

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Hiroshima A-bomb Archive Site With 3-D Satellite Map

A recently launched website aimed at passing down the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to future generations, using a 3-D digital satellite map, is gaining public attention, following a similar site on the Nagasaki atomic...

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

APRSAF 18 Announced

We are pleased to announce that the eighteenth session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency
Forum (APRSAF-18) will be held from 6 to 9 December 2011 in Singapore. The APRSAF-18 will be jointly
organized by...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Australia Prepares World-First Tsunami Warning System

Australian scientists are putting the finishing touches on a highly advanced tsunami warning system in a remote desert region north of Perth.   Researchers say the array of sensors is the first in the world able to make...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Satellite Image Shows Ash Plume Drifting From Krakatoa

Krakatau (also known as Krakatoa), a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, has been intermittently active for the past several decades. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

GPS Survey of Sydney’s Traffic Shows Results

The survey by RACV subsidiary Intelematics Australia took in the 26 busiest commuter routes in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, measuring traffic data over two years. After Thomastown the slowest traffic on Melbourne's seven busiest arterials was...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Trimble Announces Second Quarter 2011 Revenue of $407.2 Million, Up 22 Percent

Trimble today announced second quarter 2011 revenue of $407.2 million, up approximately 22 percent as compared to the second quarter of 2010. Operating income for the second quarter of 2011 was $51.6 million, up 27 percent...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Russia Plans Three Launches in August

Russia has planned to launch three rockets (LV) from its Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in August including GLONASS, Russian media report. According to ARMS-TASS, Russian Federal Space Agency will launch the rocket Proton-M from the center...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Terrestrial LiDAR

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a pixel worth to a substation? Electrical substations are everywhere — generation substations, transmission substations, distribution substations, privately owned substations and the list goes on. Not as...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Dharna Planned Against Draft Land Acquisition Bill

The first major opposition to the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 will be in the form of a three-day dharna here beginning on Wednesday by the project-affected people. Various peoples' movements under the...