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SSTL to Oversee European Lunar Mission |
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Friday, 11 December 2009 10:41 |
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to manage a pan-European student-built mission to the Moon. The European Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO) programme will place a spacecraft into a lunar orbit to map the lunar surface, acquiring images and other scientific data about our nearest neighbour. Students from at least ten universities throughout ESA's Member States and Cooperating States will obtain hands-on experience of space science and engineering by collaborating on the design and building of systems that could be launched into orbit around the Moon as soon as 2013. SSTL will draw upon its experience in delivering cost-effective space missions and training schemes to project manage the ESMO mission, supervising the academic and student teams throughout Europe to help them achieve their goal of a space-ready Moon orbiter. |
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MONRE transferred the tsunami scenarios to the Center Earthquakes Communication and Tsunami Hazard Warning |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:19 |
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Concretize tsunami hazard on the warning map
Along with 25 tsunami hazard warning scenarios, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment (MONRE) also delivered a tsunami hazard warning map system for Center Earthquakes Communication and Tsunami Hazard Warning. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hien, deputy director of Center for Marine and Ocean- Atmosphere Interaction Research (CMOAR) under The Viet Nam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment (IMHEN) –MONRE said: when an earthquake occurred in the East Sea, the Center Earthquakes Communication and Tsunami Hazard Warning will enter the parameters of earthquakes into the warning map system. This system automatically calculates and determines the occurred ability of tsunamis in the territorial waters of Vietnam. It is selected out of 25 scenarios, respectively, from that given relevant maps and warning information. These maps will provide detailed information about the time of tsunami occurred to the coast, the tsunami height, extent of flooding caused by tsunami in coastal provinces ... Thereby, the Center will identify parameters of tsunami and regions needed to warning. |
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Pidpa-GIS Makes Enterprise Data Available through a Seamless Map |
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 10:48 |
Pidpa is a progressive drinking water supplier dedicated to providing high-quality drinking water to more than 1.1 million people in a 2,581-square-kilometer service area. The extracted groundwater is carefully monitored and the water goes through a purification process prior to release into the distribution network and subsequent consumption. The company’s water network includes 26 water production centers, 62 water towers, and more than 12,000 kilometers of water mains. These are all part of Pidpa’s infrastructure, which produces and distributes more than 72 million cubic meters of water per year throughout the Antwerp Province. |
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GIS Empowers Emergency Response and Public Health Awareness |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:29 |
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This solution was implemented in South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Problem A public health organization needed an efficient way to serve health data and emergency information to the public
Goal- Serve data to an audience with diverse technical capabilities and varied needs
- Leverage information with limited resources
- Allow different levels of access to information
- Integrate disparate systems
- Keep data current and well documented
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