A decade on from its launch, the Global Atlas for Renewable Energy continues to represent a unique, free global resource for assessing the renewable potential of countries and regions. Since the launch of its ground-breaking free web GIS renewable resource platform in 2012, IRENA has continuously updated and upgraded the …
The Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) will come out with a Digital Water Atlas containing the details of all major river basins in the State. The atlas, which will come handy for the quick reference of various Government departments and scientists, will feature the topography of the …
This national wetland atlas prepared by SAC, Ahmedabad as a part of the project on National Wetland Inventory & Assessment presents wetland status of each State/Union Territory through text, statistical tables, satellite images,maps and ground photographs. This publication deals with the updated database and status of wetlands, compiled in Atlas …
In February 1544, an Hungarian court charged a Flemish cartographer for heresy. Gerard Mercator, the cartographer in question, was sent to a poky prison cell in the outskirts of Budapest. He had powerful friends though and was out of prison in seven months. But the Catholic orthodoxy remained close on …
Josh Halliday Google maps final corner of the planet as it launches Street View for Antarctica, Brazil and Ireland. A big bone of contention in many countries, Google's Street View mapping service on September 30 goes live in Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica, meaning Street View now has a presence in …
Hyderabad, Sept. 6: In September 2003 the state government issued orders asking district officials to take necessary steps to identify all lands covered by water bodies such as tanks, rivulets, ponds, lakes, river bodies and others, and include them in the Prohibitory Order Book. This was done in order to …
Ajai SreevatsanCHENNAI: Efforts to protect ecologically sensitive zones along the State's coast, estuaries, rivers and backwaters will soon have an unlikely ally. Using a combination of satellite imagery, GPS geo-referencing and village-level land survey details, the Department of Environment has almost completed mapping all the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notified …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is engaged in the satellite mapping of the country's wetlands and will complete the project by the end of August, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday. "It is for the first time that all wetlands in the country will be mapped. ISRO will provide …
Using satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world's forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is the first that spans the entire globe based on one uniform method. The map, based on data collected …
The Environment Ministry and Coal Ministry have initiated a joint exercise to identify and map coal reserves in forests for coal mining. Such areas are being classified as
With a view to prevent illegal mining and loot of precious mineral resources as well as to usher in greater efficiency in the mining operations, the state government has decided to prepare maps of all the mining areas on the lines of revenue maps. The maps so prepared would be …
NEW DELHI: In the next four years, the Survey of India (SoI) will plant permanent pillars and wooden pegs at intervals all along the coast, clearly demarcating the hazard line to residents, visitors and prospective developers for the next century. For the first time, the hazard line will not just …
In a unique initia tive, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and the Survey of India (SoI) will map the entire 1500 km coastline to draw up a hazard based mapping process in order to help protect the coastal population from cyclones, tides and tsunami.
CHENNAI: The government and industry need to jointly explore new sites with wind energy potential to scale down the use of fossil fuels, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday. Launching the Indian Wind Atlas developed by the Centre for Wind Energy Technology (CWET) and …
A group of innova tive young architects from Delhi's School of Planning & Architecture (SPA) have created a wonderfully userfriendly pedestrian map for Garli -India's first heritage village notified by the Himachal Pradesh government in 2002 located about 450 km north of the capital amidst the still picturesque Kangra Valley. …
Indrani Dutta It could have prevented unsavoury situations: Buddhadeb KOLKATA: Releasing the first land use map for West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said on Wednesday that certain unsavoury situations in Singur and Nandigram could have been avoided if such a document was in place at that time. Replying to …
The Department of Atomic Energy has launched an extensive survey of atomic minerals in Karnataka. The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) under the Department of Atomic Energy is conducting heli-borne geophysical surveys over the parts of Belgaum, Bagalkot and Bijapur districts in the State and Kolhapur district …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: For the first time, the Survey of India is going to map the country's vast 7,500-km-long coastline, identifying areas vulnerable to high tides, rising sea levels and coastal erosion, in an unusually comprehensive hazard-mapping exercise to be completed over the next five years. The demarcation of …
