ID: 57020
Title: Applications: Here, there, everywhere
Author: Dr Hrishikesh Samant
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2012
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 06, Vol 02, January 2012
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57019
Title: Technology trends: Keeping an eye on the planet
Author: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2012
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 06, Vol 02, January 2012
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: Data processing, sensors
Abstract: With technology advancements in sensors, payload weights and data processing, earth observation as a domain is transforming rapidly. And with its application expanding across the domains, the future looks replete with opportunities. Here ' s an exhaustive analysis of the technology trends.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
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ID: 57018
Title: Geospatial ecosystem: Growth is the best policy
Author: Prof Ian Dowman
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2012
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 06, Vol 02, January 2012
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: Geospatial information and technology have great potential to be a public commodity and a panacea to the larger challenges facing global economic and social well-being. It therefore becomes imperative to have enabling, market-oriented policy frameworks in place to give impetus to the geospatial ecosystem. Here ' s a look at some government policies across the world and their impact on the utility of geospatial technology.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57017
Title: UN GGIM- Geospatial Industry: Partners in solutions
Author: None
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 05, Vol 02, December 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: Global Geospatial Management (GGIM)
Abstract: Representives from government, mapping agencies, international organisations and geospatial industry met in Seoul, Republic of Korea to launch the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Management (GGIM) and to take part in a high level forum on GGIM. The main meeting was preceded by an exchange forum with geospatial industry and mapping agencies. The rather unusual presence of industry at a UN event indicates the recognition given by the UN to the geospatial industry in searching for solutions to global socio-economic problems.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57016
Title: Inspire: Towards knowledge economy
Author: Bhanu Rekha
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 05, Vol 02, December 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: As the world becomes increasingly flat in terms of economy and technology solutions, there is a growing realisation that some of the pressing challenges of modern society (such as climate change, environment) need to be addressed at a global and regional level than just at local level. As geoinformation is at the core of all these tasks, it is but imperative to build necessary spatial data infrastructures at these levels to find comprehensive and cohesive solutions.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57015
Title: Vietnam: Catching up with g-revolution
Author: Sarah Hisham
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: Putting itself on the path of economic growth and development post the war, Vietnam is adopting modern technologies to be on par with other South East Asian countries and is capitalising on the second mover advantage to evolve is geospatial footprint.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57014
Title: Malaysia: Towards spatially enabled society
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: None
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57013
Title: Thailand: Getting back on track
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: One of the early adopters of geospatial technology in South East Asia, Thailand has been steadily incorporating the technology in its various development activities. Here ' s a look at what ' s going on in the geospatial industry in Thailand.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57012
Title: Singapore: Geo-enabled ' government -with-you '
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: Geospatial technology has played a significant role in Singapore ' s march into the league of developed nations within a short span of time. Not content to rest on the achievements so far, Singapore is actively implementing the technology to secure its growth.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57011
Title: Philippines: Poised for growth
Author: Sarah Hishan and Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: With its aggressive economic growth and development plans and steadily growing awareness about the benefits of geospatial technology, especially its role in safeguarding the nation against the vagaries of nature, Philippiness offers a lot of potential to the geospatial industry.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57010
Title: Indonesia: G - readiness for future
Author: Deepali Roy
Editor: Prof Arup Dasgupta
Year: 2011
Publisher: Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt Ltd, Issue 03, Vol 02, October 2011
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Geospatial World
Keywords: None
Abstract: Shedding legacies and moving beyond ' business as usual ' mindset, Indonesia is accelerating its economic transformation and evolving a new way of working. It is strengthening traditional drivers with new technologies and evolving infrastructure to carry the nation forward. Here ' s an insight into the geospatial scenario of a country which has recently approved the landmark Geospatial Information Act.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57009
Title: Pacific communities face cultural genocide
Author: Grain and Sandy Gauntlett
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: None
Abstract: Sandy Gauntlett is an environmental activist of Maori descent. He lectures in indigenous resource management at the indigenous university of Te Wananga O Aotearoa in New Zealand. He also chairs the Pacific Indigenous Peoples Environment Coalition and the Pacific Regional Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57008
Title: Climate change in West Africa the risk to food security and biodiversity
Author: Ofedi and Grain
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Climate change
Abstract: West Africa is extremely vulnerable to climate change, in part because its agriculture is essentially rain-fed. Deeply disturbing alterations in the climate are already being noticed, and worse can be expected. If cataclysmic unpheavals are to be avoided, the region needs urgently to find ways of conserving precious ecosystems and of supporting peasant farmers and other groups to use their tranditional knowledge to adapt to far-reaching changes.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57007
Title: Farmer ' s rights or fools ' bargain?
Author: Guy Kastler
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Agricultural biodiversity
Abstract: The climate crisis adds another dimension of urgency in dealing with the world ' s dwindling agricultural biodiversity. The seeds of today will have to be adapted to changes in climate and the ensuing changes in ecosystems. Such adaptation can only be based on the wealth of agricultural biodiversity that farmers have created. Farmer ' s seeds and seed systems have never been more important to humanity, and yet never have they been more threatened. A growing array of laws and regulations spreads around the world to prevent famers from working with seeds, while new technologies, such as GMOs, put these seeds at risk of contamination and destruction. Meanwhile, the handful of seed corporations that now dominate the global seed market want unfettered access to the seeds that have been taken from farmers and stored in the world ' s gene banks.
In this context, the Governing Body of the International Treaty on plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture held its third session on 1-5 June 2009 in Tunis. Guy Kastler, the European delegate to La Via Campesina ' s Biodiversity Commission, and representative of the Reseau Semences Paysannes of France, explains what he sees as the failures of the Treaty and the opportunities and spaces for acion emerging from Tunis.
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None
ID: 57006
Title: Real problems, false solutions
Author: None
Editor: None
Year: 2009
Publisher: GRAIN, October 2009
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: None
Subject: Seedling-Biodiversity, Rights and Livelihood
Keywords: Methane emissions
Abstract: Three activities - no-till agriculture, biochar and more intensified livestock farming with reduced methane emissions-are likely to benefit from increased funding because of their alleged role in combating global warming. What is the evidence that these activities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions? What will happen to the world ' s biodiversity and the global climate if these sectors are hugely expanded? And who is likely to benefit?
Location: TE 12, New Biology Building
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None