You are invited to the GoGeomatics GIS Day event – Free RADARSAT Receiving Station Tour If you would like to take the tour or know someone who might please pass this message on. Date: November […]
Since I am on my way to Chile, I thought it might be worthwhile posting about the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) the planned location for which is Cerro Armazones, a mountain at an altitude of […]
Astonishing time lapse sequences of photographs of the Earth including auroras taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of Expeditions 28 and 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011.
There are about half a million natural gas wells in the United States. Two technologies have fueled the rapid expansion of shale-gas wells, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). Horizontal drilling enables production from relatively […]
In a previous blog I had mentioned the National Commission on Energy Policy’s report Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs which focusses on the workforce issues facing the electric power industry at a time when it […]
Saturday journalists were allowed inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for the first time since the Sendai earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The journalists wore full protective gear. They were led around the Fukushima Daiichi palnt […]
I blogged previously about some of the massive water diversion projects around the world, perhaps the most dramatic of the results of which is the incredible shrinking of the Aral Sea, where an entire fishing industry […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced a survey on the business value of open standards. The survey is a joint effort by two academic researchers who are OGC members and by the OGC Business […]