Monday, March 26th, 2012
An earthquake is considered to trigger GLOFs, and active faults are potential sources of earthquakes. Do you think that a mega earthquake of the same size as the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake could occur in Bhutan?...
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
The mountainous kingdom of Bhutan, whose economy relies heavily on agriculture and forestry, began an ambitious National Forest Inventory project in 2010 to capture comprehensive data on forest cover and resources. The country's supreme law maintains that...
Monday, March 21st, 2011
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Caraga will launch its Regional Geographic Information System Center (RGISC) on March 22. The RGISC promotes Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for effective planning, decision-making, policy formulation, investment programming and...
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has for the last two years, been in the process of conducting a massive exercise to map the 13.87 lakh properties in the 198 wards in the city. Geographical Information System...
