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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Paper: Mainstreaming Pakistan for REDD+: The Way Forward to Readiness Phase”

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has provided a platform to the international community to negotiate and take measures for climate change mitigation. REDD+ is emerged as an incentive based mitigation mechanism to address the...

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Bentley Publishes The Year in Infrastructure 2011

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the digital version of The Year in Infrastructure 2011 is immediately available at www.bentley.com/YearInInfrastructure, and print copies can be requested at www.bentley.com/2011yearbook. This 240-page yearbook highlights the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure....

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

PeopleNet Founder and CEO to Lead Trimble’s Expanding Worldwide Transportation and Logistics Division

Trimble announced the appointment of PeopleNet® founder and CEO Ron Konezny as general manager of Trimble's worldwide Transportation and Logistics (T&L) Division. "Since establishing PeopleNet in 1994, Ron has...

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

FIG Foundation Academic Research Grants

The grant holder is expected to conduct the bulk of the research themselves (it is not a research manager’s grant), but at the same time the development of highly qualified personnel (HQP) should be a major component...

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Marine Ecosystems in the Mertz Glacier Region, Antarctica

In his account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, Sir Douglas Mawson (1915) described his encounter with large icebergs, resembling ice walls, during the voyage south to Adélie Land in January 1912: 'a south‒south‒east was blowing...

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Artist Maps His Way Forward

Born in Malete, Tzaneen, he is introducing art collectors to something new and exciting. With everyone used to art pieces that are dominated by the figures of people, or landscapes for that matter, the Limpopo artist is...

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Nigeria Launches Satellite to Replace Earlier Failed Attempt

With a service lifespan of 15 years, the satellite is designed to meet the needs of telecommunications, maritime, defense and broadcast media services in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Europe and Asia. Read More

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

A Service-Oriented Architecture for Proactive Geospatial Information Services

The advances in sensor network, linked data, and service-oriented computing has indicated a trend of information technology, i.e.

Sunday, December 18th, 2011

Spatial Data Infrastructure in Mongolia

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Mongolia is a paper presented by Jane Hong. It outlines the state of the Mongolian SDI and includes topics related to organizational activities, geodetic and cartographic activities and international cooperation. Read More

Sunday, December 18th, 2011

Philippines: Local Government Units Told to Climate-proof Land Plans

Speaking at a round-table discussion held in Makati City yesterday, Walter Salzer, director and principal adviser for the Environment and Rural Development Program of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) said LGUs need to climate-proof or...