Tag Archives: Environment

New Hope for Real Time Forest Monitoring System

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Now Global Forest Watch 2.0 (GFW 2.0) is a powerful near real-time forest monitoring system  that combines satellite technology, new algorithms, cloud computing, mobile phone technologies, maps and human networks around the world to fight illegal logging and deforestation. GFW … Continue reading →

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Satellite Mapping of Buildings to Augment Land Records in Delhi,India

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

 Delhi Development Authority (DDA) of capital of India has embarked on a project to prepare digital maps of all its land.The land of  DDA is spread over an area of more than 70,000 acres . Delhi has changed drastically in … Continue reading →

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Belarus is Capable of Making Better Remote Sensing Satellites

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. According to the scientists the country  is capable of creating a … Continue reading →

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Extreme Climate change in Pakistan

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Pakistan could be in for a sharp rise in average temperatures and extremely erratic weather.It was opined in a seminar.The seminar, analysed data in a new report produced by top non-government organisations, LEAD-Pakistan and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, … Continue reading →

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