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Agreement on IRS Satellite Data Between India and Brazil (link)

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

India and Brazil signed an agreement recently which would allow the Brazilian earth stations to receive and process data from Indian Remote Sensing satellites (IRS). The financial terms of the agreement states that INPE will, with its own regular budgetary … Continue reading →

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Democratising the Mapping Process: WIKIMAPS is Building An Open Collection of Historical Maps (link)

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Perhaps the biggest challenge of today regarding geographic information is to process and organize a massive amount of data from various sources, dates and especially, formats. Big data is about processing a huge and diversified volume of information, with high velocity … Continue reading →

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Over 85 million square kilometres of fresh basemap imagery from Airbus Defense and Space has been opened-up for ArcGIS users (link)

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

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How Earth Avoided Global Warming Last Time

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Geochemists have opined that  a huge rise in atmospheric CO2 was only avoided by the formation of a vast mountain range in the middle of the ancient supercontinent, Pangea. 300 million years ago, plate tectonics  aggregated land masses into a … Continue reading →

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