Thursday, November 14th, 2013
DLR / German Aerospace Center, has selected Scality’s award winning Scality RING petabyte scale storage solution to host its active archive for large amounts of their high definition satellite images. DLR’s Earth Observation Center uses remote sensing...
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
India was hit hard by Cyclone Phailin, with 12 million people impacted, including millions evacuated from the Odisha coast to safety earlier this week. This was the strongest storm to hit the state in 14 years, and...
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Sharad Pawar, minister of agriculture and food processing industries, today inaugurated the National Crop Forecast Centre in New Delhi today. The NCFC, named after statistician P C Mahalanobis, has been set up in collaboration with Indian Space...
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Solar flares and other space phenomenon can quickly impact communications, electronic systems and GNSS operations on earth. The South Korean government has initiated a new space weather system that will provide up-to-date information about space weather for...
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The Australian Government, through the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Royal Australian Navy and CSIRO has initiated BLUElink Ocean forecasting Australia, a $15m project to deliver ocean forecasts for the Australian region. Read More
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Last year saw extensive flood damage throughout the Brisbane, Australia area. Damage estimates were in the billions of dollars. Infrastructure was destroyed, crops were submerged and the energy industry was impacted significantly. The toll on human life...
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...
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The world economy may be teetering on the brink of a double-dip recession, but business is booming for wireless infrastructure vendors. According to Jake Saunders, vice president of forecasting, "Base station installations in 2011 will total at...
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
In an effort to improve and enhance weather mapping capabilities, Bangalore Meteorological Centre, India Meteorological Department (IMD), under its modernisation project is installing about 100 Automatic Rain Gauges (ARG) and two Doppler Weather Radars (DWR) across the...
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Removal of Indian scientific and defense institutions such as ISRO and DRDO from the US Entity list this week could result in some unexpected riches raining on India. The immediate fall-out of the thaw between the non-proliferation...
