Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
"We have mapped the entire surface of the moon, but have yet to map the entire sea bed," Dr Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES) told a gathering of marine geologists today in Goa. India...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
As residents across flood-ravaged Southeast Asia look up to the skies and brace for more rain, satellites 35,800km away are looking down on them. Space technology has become a critical tool in protecting people from disasters in...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System has turned on initial power to the program's pathfinder spacecraft, known as the GPS III Non...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, will demonstrate the power of NAVTEQ® map data and location content at the OZRI 2011 User...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
THE Tuvalu National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has plans for a nationwide needs assessment of water, agriculture, and health facilities this week. The assessment is expected to take 20 days to complete. United Nations Office for the Coordination of...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
One hundred years ago today, China kick-started a rebellion which overthrew centuries of imperial rule, stripping the young emperor and regent of power. Ecstatic revolutionaries did away with the reviled pigtails mandated by the Manchu rulers and decried...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
FINNMAP's Legal Expert Dr Jukka Pekka Tolvanen was awarded the Royal Order medal of Officer at the medal awarding ceremony at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) on 24 August 2011.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Bako Sahakyan, President of the Artsakh Republic (Nagorno-Karabakh) met Yervand Zakharyan, Chairman of the Real Estate and Cadastre State Committee at Armenia’s government on Monday. According to a press release by the Karabakhi presidential administration, issues related to...
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Viet Nam's fisheries forecasting was both inadequate and inaccurate, heard a meeting organised by the General Fisheries Department earlier this week. Information provided quarterly by the Fisheries Research Institute to help fishermen know where, what and how much...
