Thursday, February 10th, 2011
About two months ago, renowned Korean scholar Choi Suh-myun received an unexpected package from Atsushi Hirata, director of the Ryukoku University Library in Japan. Choi was taken aback by its content: a masterful digitally enhanced recreation of a...
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The Geospatial Technology Update Seminar took place this morning. It was co-organised by the Geographical Information System, GIS Development, Survey Department, Brunei Institution of Geomatics, the Brunei Surveyors, Engineers and Architects Association, PUJA as well as the...
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) is a small-to-medium sized local government in south east Queensland, Australia. The council region, mainly the southern part, suffers from major bushfires. Bushfire is a real and present concern for the...
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The Raising National Water Standards project funded by the National Water Commission aims to develop a spatial algorithm for mapping plant water use (SAM-ET) to quantify multi-scale water productivity which is the most critical information for efficient water...
Monday, February 7th, 2011
An underwater ridge can trap the flow of cold, dense water at the bottom of the ocean. Without the ridge, deepwater can flow freely and speed up the ocean circulation pattern, which generally increases the flow of...
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
The Esri Asia Pacific Conference, one of the most highly anticipated geographic information systems (GIS) events in the region, will be hosted by the Philippines on January 26-27, 2011 at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City....
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
The next meeting of the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) has been scheduled for 29 April 2011. The deadline for making proposals to assign, alter, approve or discontinue names is 25 February 2011,...
Monday, January 17th, 2011
The Food Security Atlas is aimed to contribute to a better understanding of the spatial patterns of food security, poverty and malnutrition in Nepal inorder to provide a solid basis for developing a comprehensive national food security...
Friday, January 14th, 2011
China Information Technology, Inc. a total solutions provider of geographic information systems (GIS), digital public security technology (DPST) and digital hospital information systems (DHIS) in China, today announced that its newly signed contracts in the fourth quarter of 2010...