EARSC News
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Announcement SPREEX Coordination Action Workshop on Oil Spill Response
- November 8, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
No CommentsThe mid-term workshop of the Coordination Action SPREEX dealing with Oil Spill Response preparedness and efficiency research needs, includes the presentation of summaries of the State of the Art reports prepared along the first year of the Coordination Action, on OSR issues, that includes in WP 3.
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Provision of NWS Info in Geospatial Format
- November 8, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
The NWS seeks user input as it evolves its geographical data services.
To advance the environmental information enterprise, NOAA/NWS will provide information in forms accessible to the public as well as underlying data in forms convenient to additional processing, to the extent practicable and within resource constraints. (Source US National Weather Service) -
GEO Plenary Meetings
- November 8, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
The GEO Plenary is the official decision-making forum of GEO and meets at least once annually. (Source Earth Observations)
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Climate change:Commission looks for progress from UN ministerial conference
- November 6, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
The European Commission will be seeking further global progress in the battle against climate change at the annual United Nations climate change conference which starts in Nairobi today and runs until 17 November. European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas will participate in the high-level segment from 15-17 November. (Source Europa-EU)
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ESA joins UN climate talks in Kenya
- November 6, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
The United Nations annual summit on climate change this week in Nairobi, Kenya, seeks to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol strategy, which becomes obsolete in 2012, to restrict emissions of heat-trapping gases that drive climate change. ESA joins the activities to share results of its satellite-based Kyoto-supporting services. (Source ESA)
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Australia And China To Put Eyes In The Sky To Monitor Climate Change
- November 3, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EARSC News, Internationalization
CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (CASM) have signed a research agreement in Beijing today to collaborate on China’s resource mapping satellite program.(Source Spacemart)
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Russia's Federal space program takes first steps
- November 2, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
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MapInfo Appoints John O'Hara to Executive Vice President, International
- November 2, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
MapInfo Corporation (Nasdaq: MAPS), the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, today announces the appointment of John O’Hara to Executive Vice President of International Operations. (Source Spatialnews)
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Andras Roboz ?± bringing space down to earth
- October 26, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
Andras Roboz joined DG Enterprise as Head of Unit for Space Policy and Coordination in September 2006. (Source EU Space)
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Marcoast Oil Service for Baltic
- October 20, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
The MarCoast Oil Service for Baltic was kicked off the 10 October 2006. MarCoast is a project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the GMES GSE program where the aim is to establish sustainable marine and coastal information services. (Source Ksat)