Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The 2004 Asian Tsunami caused dramatic damage, but there are other threats. Remote sensing technologies are evolving quickly and provide tools for monitoring such tropical forests so the team set out to compare three methods. Image differencing is...
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
An atlas, which traces historical events comprising the Freedom Movement of India in geo-spatial depiction, was released at the Geo Summit 2011, held at the Satyabhama University here. Prithvish Nag, Director, National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO),...
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The GIZ-SUTP along with the Transport division of the UNESCAP jointly organised a breakout session at the Fifth Asia Pacific Urban Forum on the 22nd June 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. The title of the breakout session was...
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Siemens has assisted the management team of TAIPEI 101, the tallest building in Taiwan and the second tallest building in the world, to achieve platinum certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Existing Buildings: Operations and...
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Property information service company, Hometrack, has signed an agreement with Perth-based nearmap.com to use its photo mapping content for its Valuer product. Hometrack provides electronic valuations and risk analytics solutions to the Australian and UK housing and mortgage...
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
The giant field days are staged over three days in August in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. It attracts over 100,000 visitors, the largest visitation of any rural field day in the country. Since it started in 1973,...
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Last year, Japan produced close to one quadrillion watt-hours of electricity — that's 1 followed by 15 zeros. The vast majority of that — which translates into one billion megawatt hours (MWh) — came from coal, natural...
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Thailand ranked the worst in disaster recovery readiness among eight countries in Asia-Pacific, defying the trend toward increasing use of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery programmes in the region, according to a survey. Conducted by the independent...
