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WWF maps coral reefs in Arabian Gulf
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has helped prepare the first map of coral habitats in the southeastern Arabian Gulf, highlighting some of the most extensive and biologically important coral reefs around the offshore islands and banks of the United Arab Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Qatar's harbour...
Canadian minister announces five year $2.4 M satellite imaging project
Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, Canada announced on June 21, a five-year, $2.4-million project to provide access to new, high-quality satellite images of Canada…
Indian Ocean tsunami alert system up and running
A tsunami alert system for nations bordering the Indian Ocean is up and running, 18 months after deadly waves triggered by an earthquake slammed into 12 nations across the region. 26 information analysis centers capable of receiving and distributing tsunami advisories…
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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A Study of finding Sites for Ecological Villages, Using Multi Criteria Evaluation
Md. Tauhid-Ur-Rahman, N. Bernard
Royal Institute of Technology,
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
This study seeks to use decision support system embedded in Geographical Information Systems to find five sites for ecological villages in Stockholm. In order to ensure that the ecological villages function in a holistic, beneficial mutualism with the surrounding rural and natural environment, Multi Criteria Evaluation (MCE) technique was adopted…
E-Learning for GIS, Cartography and Geodata Acquisition
Thilo Kaufmann
Institute for Applications of Geodesy to Engineering (IAGB)
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Volker Schwieger
Institute for Applications of Geodesy to Engineering (IAGB)
University of Stuttgart, Germany
The paper gives an overview about geoinformation related e-learning. The authors present the e-learning platform gimolus that was developed within a project granted by the German Ministry of Education and Research in cooperation with different partner institutes...
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CORPORATE
Orbital Sciences Corporation awarded $9.2 M contract
When the OrbCAD XP system is operational, a variety of tools will be at HART's disposal to effectively manage its fleet of vehicles...
Ball Aerospace selected for two cloud cameras on Glory mission
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will design and build two cloud cameras for the Glory mission under contract to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The Glory mission is part of the U.S. Climate Change Science Programme to improve our understanding of what forces influence global environmental changes and how to predict those changes…
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NEW PRODUCTS
France launches challenger to Google Earth
France unveiled a Web site (www.geoportail.fr), a joint project by the National Geographic Institute and the Office of Geological and Mineral Research, on June 23…
GeoSage releases medium-resolution global satellite imagery in simulated true colour
GeoSage announced the availability of true-colour, medium-resolution global satellite imagery, offering a very low cost solution to a wide range of visualisation-related applications…
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Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
