“Time is running out, water is running out,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the international business CEOs and civil society leaders in Davos, Switzerland, adding that the world needed to adapt to this reality.
Underscoring that water scarcity…
The GEOSS Standards Registry, is a reference database of interoperability arrangements that are registered to GEOSS components and their services. A web-based user interface allows users to browse or perform detailed searches on the registry’s holding. The…
The ADC established the Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF) to facilitate the interchange of information, and make recommendations for standards and interoperabilityarrangements in GEOSS. The SIF will enable ever greater degrees of interoperability…
The IEEE Standards Electrical Systems Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Working Group (SASB/SCC40/PMSS) is starting work on the development of a Guide for Electric-Sourced Transportation Infrastructure. Read more A large growth in electric sourced vehicles…
A sustainable energy future will be based on more efficient energy use, better energy infrastructure, alternative energy technologies, along with appropriate policies and market instruments. Negative implications of energy use can be managed cost‐effectively…
There is a Need for a System which Provides Access to all Earth Observation Data in Standard Interoperable Formats, along with Portal and Clearing House to provide access to all Earth Observation Data
Based on Existing Portals, Systems and…
The IEEE has an agreement with the South African Department of Science and Technology to advise and cooperate on science and engineering developments and applications to address the grand challenges. Focus areas in the first year of the five year collaboration…
South Africa launched an earth observation satellite, SumbandilaSat, in September 2009. This satellite is part of an integrated twenty-five year South African space program and will serve as a research tool to investigate the viability of affordable space…
According to the South African ten-year plan for innovation, the level of economic growth requires continual advances in technological innovation and the production of new knowledge. South Africa has growth targets which include five Grand…
The Black Sea Catchment is internationally known as one of ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management, which has led to severe environmental, social and economic problems. The EnviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Catchment project addresses…
