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Sunday, February 20th, 2011

City Finalizing Land Use Plan Amendments

The city government is now finalizing the amendments to update the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) which defines the utilization and uses of the city’s various zones. The updated CLUP will be the basis in the implementation of...

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Trialling Ocean Temperature Forecasts for Fish Farms

Marine scientists are trialling the first near-shore water temperature forecasts to assist Australia’s aquaculture farm managers contending with rising ocean temperatures. While land farmers have used seasonal forecasting for nearly a decade, marine farmers in south-east Australia...

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

India’s Longest Rail Bridge in Kerala

The scenic Kerala backwaters can now boast of an engineering marvel — the longest rail bridge in the country at 4.62km. The bridge is part of a 8.6-km railway link connecting Idapalli to Vallarpadam in Kochi, where...

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

NZ – Cadmium in Soils to be Actively Managed

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) yesterday announced a proactive strategy to manage the gradual cadmium build-up in New Zealand’s agricultural soils. MAF’s Director of Natural Resources Policy, Mike Jebson says cadmium is a naturally occurring...

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

EIAST Signs Contract for DubaiSat-2 with Russia’s ISCK

The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has signed a contract with the Moscow-based international space company Kosmotras (ISCK) for the launch of the United Arab Emirates' second remote sensing satellite -- DubaiSat-2. The contract...

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Resourcesat 2 Satellite Prepared for Launch

ISRO spokespersons also stated that the satellite has been transported to the Sriharikota rocket launch centre located about 80km from Chennai in South India, where currently tests are being conducted on it, after which it will be...

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Seminar on Spatial Strategies Using GIS

The millennium development goals can be accomplished only through adoption of (GIS) geographical information system, remote sensing and mapping methods, S. Balasubramanian, Director-Research, JSS University, Mysore, said on Monday. A higher focus on research was necessary to manage...

Monday, February 14th, 2011

KVH Industries Reports Fourth Quarter Growth

Driving this growth in the commercial market was the demand for our inertial navigation systems for use in precision mapping and aerial surveying, two applications that are increasingly vital to support the need for new 3-dimensional maps...

Monday, February 14th, 2011

u-blox and Rohde & Schwarz – Galileo and GLONASS Development

u-blox and Rohde & Schwarz (R&S), a worldwide leading supplier of test and measurement equipment, have successfully concluded a simulation of the soon-to-be-deployed European Galileo satellite positioning system. The test, carried out with the R&S SMBV100A vector...

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Opinion – Private-sector Efforts to Nurture Satellite Business Have Their Limits

Since the 2008 enactment of the basic space law, we have been receiving more support from the government for our efforts to sell space satellites to overseas clients. The world satellite market is dominated by two leading powers--the...