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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 17, 2009 
Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet. Rafaela Goncalves da Silva, 21, has lived in the Santa Marta favela, a poor and dangerous slum that was recently the target of a police pacification operation, since she was two years old. She is bringing ... read more
Redlands CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2009Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently signed an order to establish a coordinated strategy within the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) to improve response to climate change. During the press conference announcing the order, DOI staff used ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology to demonstrate the current and future impacts of global climate change. ... more
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Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 18, 2009Navigating the contours of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be confusing -- even for satellite navigation systems. But soon, if the Israeli army has its way, the Global Positioning System (GPS) will get a lesson in the political complexities of the disputed region. The military has approached the company that makes the maps for the personal navigation devices, asking them to ... more  
Amsterdam (AFP) Oct 18, 2009About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg -- a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding. "There is a lot of water in the Netherlands, it is used for navigation and recreation. We want to see if it can also be inhabited," Ton van Namen, director of real estate company Monteflore, told ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 16, 2009Using satellite radar data and GPS measurements, Chinese researchers have explained the exceptional geological events leading to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that killed nearly 90 000 people in China's Sichuan Province. "One of the very fundamental issues for understanding an earthquake is to know how the rupture is distributed on the fault plane, which is directly related to the amount of ... more |
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San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2009CSR has introduced the SiRFstarIV GSD4e GPS location processor, the newest member of the recently launched SiRFstarIV architecture, an innovation that promises to redefine the meaning of "location awareness" for mobile devices. Building upon the SiRFstarIV architecture's high-performance and micro-power capabilities, the GSD4e adds a built-in CPU and innovations such as SiRFGeoRecov ... more  
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 13, 2009Boeing has signed Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contracts with the U.S. government to provide Laser Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) to two international customers. The FMS contracts are part of a $98 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for Laser JDAM production and integration that Boeing received in August. The weapons are scheduled for delivery in 2010. ... more  
Delhi, India (SPX) Oct 08, 2009Part of India's growing power demands will soon be met with smart grid technologies that improve efficiency and reliability for businesses and consumers. North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) has announced it would become the first major utility in India to realize the performance advantages of an advanced outage management system (OMS). A joint venture between Tata Power, India's largest ... more |
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