Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Poramate Minsiri, an internet pioneer in applying technology to disaster relief, is setting up interactive maps for monitoring natural disasters. Calling the effort Team Thailand, the founder of the Kapook portal and thaiflood.com also hopes the maps...
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated...
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
3D Laser Mapping has announced a new operation in Australia. 3D Laser Mapping is an international developer of laser scanning solutions including the world’s most accurate mobile mapping system StreetMapper and laser monitoring technology for the mining...
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
China has launched a new remote sensing satellite on Tuesday, with the YaoGan Weixing-13 satellite lofted into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The launch - which took place at 18:50 UTC - also marks the return to flight...
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Bombardier Transportation announced today it has won a groundbreaking contract for propulsion and control equipment in India from Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC). MRVC is a joint venture between the Ministry of Railways and the Government of...
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
An author-mountaineer from New Zealand has successfully completed a 2,300-kilometer journey along North Korea’s portion of the Baekdu-Daegan mountain range, documenting the trip for an upcoming book that will offer a rare glimpse of stunning scenery. Roger Shepherd,...
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Pasco Corp., Japan’s largest provider of digital maps, plans to buy companies overseas because of the near-record high yen and surging demand in emerging markets caused by construction booms. “We welcome the strong yen,” President Youichi Sugimoto said...
