Friday, March 15th, 2013
Deputy Premier Plodoprasop Suraswadi outlined a plan to create a centeral mapping database for the country at two scales, 1:50,000 and 1:4,000 over the next five years. The aim is to standardise across projects and departments as...
Saturday, December 8th, 2012
Work in New Zealand and Australia to develop national spatial data infrastructures has been given a boost by the announcement from the Australia New Zealand Land Information Councils’ vision for an Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) Foundation...
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
Environmental degradation has become a national emergency and a non-traditional security threat. Enhanced research capacities should be developed to cope with the daunting challenges of environmental degradation, climate change and recurrent disasters, said participants of a research-writing...
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
China has no plan to introduce stimulus measures to support growth on the scale unleashed during the depths of the global credit crisis in 2008, according to the nation's state-run Xinhua News Agency. China stocks fell as...
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Thousands of people from farms and environmental groups have gathered in Sydney for a mass rally against the New South Wales Government's land use policy. The unlikely alliance, which has formed under the name Protect Our Land...
Monday, April 30th, 2012
A spatial information technology project developed by PSMA Australia has won a major award at the Geospatial World Forum Conference, currently underway in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Geospatial World Policy Award for Exemplary Implementation of Geospatial Policies...
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Energy is a key issue around the globe to today and Geoff Zeiss of Autodesk is no stranger to utilities and infrastructure. He has been writing extensively about energy related matters on his excellent blog ‘Between the...
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
The UN-REDD Programme’s 2011 “Year in Review” report has been launched this week at the Programme's Policy Board meeting in Asunción, Paraguay. The 2011 “Year in Review” report provides a comprehensive snapshot of the significant progress and...
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Many national and international policies are implemented to mobilise livelihood resources of forest based communities for environmental conservation including climate change mitigation. However, research and development agencies have been given little attention on developing robust research methods...
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 5th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-5). The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) provides leadership...
