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Can Bhuvan Give Google Earth A Run For Its MoneyNew Delhi, India (PTI) Mar 10, 2011 Google Earth has competition at hand. Bhuvan, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) answer to the Google application, is snapping at its heels. However, Bhuvan, a satellite mapping tool and the geoportal of ISRO that was launched a year and half ago, has to overcome a procedural hurdle. The department of space is awaiting the Union Cabinet's nod for the remote sensing data policy, 2011, that will replace the existing 2001 norms. The new policy envisages making public, pictures of upto 1 m re ... read more |
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 NASA And Other Satellites Keeping Busy With This Week's Severe Weather Satellites have been busy this week covering severe weather across the U.S. Today, the GOES-13 satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the huge stretch of clouds associated with a h ... more | .. |
  UK scientists warn of 'dangerous over-reliance' on GPS Developed nations have become "dangerously over-reliant" on satellite navigation systems such as GPS, which could break down or be attacked with devastating results, British engineers said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Exacter Mobile Technology Stops Insulator Flashover Exacter has enhanced their EXACTER Outage-Avoidance System technology to identify and locate an impending insulator flashover on overhead lines. "Before a flashover causes a circuit outage, an insul ... more | .. | ||
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 Annual Report To Baltimore County By AutoReturn Shows Solid Results Issuing its first annual report to Baltimore County since it was selected for logistics and towing management services, AutoReturn reported an increase in towed cars, improved efficiencies for the C ... more | .. |
 Skyhook's Location To Be Embedded In Next Gen Portable Entertainment System Skyhook has announced that Skyhook's Core Engine will be embedded in the next generation portable entertainment system from Sony Computer Entertainment. NGP, which will make its debut at the end of ... more | .. |
 TeenDriver.com Helps Parents Ensure Safety Of Their Teen Drivers TeenDriver has launched a new service that gives parents the tools they need to raise safe drivers. TeenDriver.com enables parents of teenagers to receive online confidential reports related to thei ... more | .. |
 Fred Meyer Stores And ECOtality To Install Blink EV Charging Stations ECOtality has announced the company's partnership with food retail chain Fred Meyer. Fred Meyer will install ECOtality's Blink Level 2 Electric Vehicle (EV) Commercial Pedestal Charging Station at s ... more |
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  S. Korea accuses N. Korea over communications attack North Korea is thought to have beamed signals from two locations to try to jam military communications in South Korea but the attempt failed, Seoul's defence minister said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 North Korea jams South's guided missiles Seoul has accused North Korea of using sophisticated jamming systems to block South Korean military signals and disrupt its guided missiles. ... more | .. |
 NASA Warns Ice Melt Speeding Up The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study - the longest to date of changes in polar ic ... more | .. |
  UK Technology Scans The Skies For Space Hazards UK space surveillance technology is being used in ESA's first co-ordinated space tracking campaign - part of a larger programme to provide up to date and accurate information on space hazards in Ear ... more |
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  ISRO Likley To Launch Resourcesat-2 In April Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to launch Resourcesat-2, a remote sensing satellite that will provide information on biophysical and geophysical parameters on the Earth's surface ... more | .. |
 Improved Method Developed To Locate Ships In Storms There are already systems that detect ships at sea, but a group of engineers from the UAH, led by the researcher Raul Vicen, has introduced a new development, involving "the use of artificial intell ... more | .. |
  A New Model To Measure Organic Carbon In Surface Waters A new carbon model allows scientists to estimate sources and losses of organic carbon in surface waters in the United States. Study results indicate that streams act as both sources and sinks for or ... more | .. |
Google Maps now helps users beat traffic jams Google upgraded its popular Google Maps on Monday to suggest faster routes to drivers based on real-time traffic conditions. ... more |
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 Russia To Start Operating New Glonass-K Satellite By Year End Russia will start operating its new Glonass-K navigation satellite, which is now undergoing in-orbit tests, by the end of the year, the head of the Russian Space Systems construction bureau has said ... more | .. |
  N. Korea launches electronic attacks on S. Korea Seoul confirmed Monday that North Korea has been trying since Friday to jam communications signals across the border, where the US and South Korea are holding a major joint military exercise. ... more | .. |
N. Korea jammed S. Korea GPS devices: report North Korea used jamming equipment to block South Korean military communication devices last week, a report said Sunday, amid high tension over the joint drills between Seoul and Washington. ... more | .. |
  Sun is shining on Asian tourism trade The sun is shining on the tourism trade in Asia-Pacific with double-digit growth notched up in 2010, spurred largely by Chinese and Indian middle classes packing their bags for a break abroad. ... more |
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 GOCE Delivers On Its Promise ESA's GOCE satellite has reached its ambitious goal of mapping Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision. In two short years, the sophisticated satellite has collected the measurements needed to ... more | .. |
 NASA reels from climate science setbacks A pair of costly satellite crashes have dealt a major blow to NASA's earth science efforts just as the US space agency faces scrutiny from Congress over whether climate science should be part of its focus at all. ... more | .. |
 New Day Dawns For Satellite To Study Earth's Ozone Layer After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service. NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III-ISS ... more | .. |
 NASA's Bolden defends Earth science NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended NASA's Earth science missions before a U.S. House committee, saying such projects were part of NASA's job. ... more |
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 Shark Tracking Reveals Impressive Feats Of Navigation Some shark species are able to navigate to specific locations up to 50km away, a new study published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology has found. Re-analysing tracking da ... more | .. |
 EGNOS Navigation System Begins Serving Europe's Aircraft The EGNOS Safety-of-Life signal has been formally declared available to aviation. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically ... more | .. |
 China To Establish Global Satellite Navigation System By 2020 A senior space technology expert in China said the country's global satellite navigation system, which is composed of more than 30 satellites, is expected to be in place by 2020. China would l ... more | .. |
 NASA to launch Earth observation satellite Friday NASA was poised to launch its Earth observation satellite, Glory, early on Friday after technical problems delayed its initial effort last month. ... more |
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Beijing to trial mobile tracking system: report A system designed to track the location of millions of mobile phone users is to be tested in Beijing, sparking concerns over privacy, state media reported Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Satellite Remote Sensing: Light Detection And Ranging The Next Big Thing The power of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is rising to new heights as a satellite remote sensing tool used to collect topographic data. LiDAR is emerging as the next big thing - allowing user ... more | .. |
  NASA To Offer Explanation Of The Missing Sunspots NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 3, to discuss the first computer model that explains the recent period of decreased solar activity during the Sun's 11-year cyc ... more | .. |
 400th Chop Shop In Southern California Foiled By LoJack Within three minutes of activation, Long Beach, CA Police Department officers and detectives began receiving a silent LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System signal, which enabled them to track and re ... more |
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