According to the Defence Daily, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday voted in favor of relaxing commercial satellite imagery resolution restrictions. Worldview-3 which will support 31 cm resolution is scheduled for launch in 2014.
At the inaugural meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), Commissioner John R Norris of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) addressed some of the burning issues facing electric power utilities. His remarks have […]
Unprecedented ice jams led to extensive flooding in Prince George as temperatures dipped to record lows in the winter of 2007/2008. City officials declared a state of local emergency on December 11, 2007, ordering dozens […]
At the inaugural meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), Chris Irwin of the Department of Energy (DoE) made the case that in the context of the smart grid utilties need innovation and that […]
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has launched India’s first Mars mission called Mangalyaan from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. It is expected to begin orbiting Mars in September 2014. It carries five […]
Less than a week ago I was thinking about “Identity” and the Canadian geomatics community. Recently there have been a number of articles on what words we should use to describe ourselves as a sector […]
John McDonald, Director of Technical Strategy and Policy Development at GE Energy and Chair of Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), in his opening comments at the inaugural meeting of the SGIP as an independent self-sustaining […]
Every year Maplecroft prepares a country-by-country scorecard Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2014 for the world’s countries that assesses the risks relating to climate change. Criteria include resource security; emissions and waste; ecosystem services; […]