UrtheCast Welcomes New CFO and Updates Guidance

VANCOUVER - UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) ("UrtheCast" or the "Company") is pleased to announce Sai W. Chu will be appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company in late March 2017. Mr. Chu will succeed Issa Nakhleh, who will be resigning from the Company after nearly...

EuroGeographics Enhances Open Data for 2017

Users of EuroGeographics pan-European open data will benefit from a series of enhancements to the latest release of EuroGlobalMap. Forty-five members of the Association for the European National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registry Authorities have contributed to the...

Shrub Could Save Kazakhstan Land

Shrub Could Save Kazakhstan Land

Looking down from space in winter, the patch of Earth around Isatay looks greenish brown: a misleading color. This remote part of Kazakhstan”a country with just 8 percent arable land”is far from verdant.

Ötztal Alps in False-Color Beauty

Ötztal Alps in False-Color Beauty

The shadows across this image taken by the European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite image may play tricks on the human eye, making the valleys”the green areas”look like they stand higher than the light blue mountains. Sometimes rotating the image so the shadows fall in a different direction can fix this optical illusion.