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While Esri has been supporting GIS users in China for 20 years, they are now opening a research and development office in Beijing to provide more localized software and services. The Esri Software Research and Development Center will encompass software development for Web mapping, mobile mapping, ArcGIS desktop, and ArcGIS Online, while also providing a [...]
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The Tianjin Eco-City, a project between Singapore and China, aims to reduce the carbon emissions of China’s sixth largest city. To meet this goal, the city promises that 90 percent of the traffic within its limits will be public transportation. The city will be divided into seven distinct sectors – a Lifescape, an Eco-Valley, a [...]
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The city of Shanghai has been growing at a great pace, and now on the heels of the green-oriented World Expo, the city’s planners are taking stock and forging a new plan for growth. The next phase of the city’s development will incorporate an “eco-network” of nature reserves, wetlands, forests and farmland that promises to [...]
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The brewing issue of China’s regulation of online mapping sites has me thinking about the benefits that these platforms provide beyond simply local search. If you haven’t heard already, China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has started regulating online mapping sites in that country, and vows to shut down mapping sites if they aren’t [...]
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China is moving swiftly to regulate polluting industries, with plans to shut down outdated and inefficient enterprises in order to meet their green goals. The country is directing $12.2 Billion from the central government for energy efficiency and pollution control. It is also moving to market-based mechanism to make those enterprises that exploit natural resources [...]
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India asserts that they’ve lost land to China in the area around the Line of Actual Control with China due to poor mapping of the area. India reports that Chinese troops have threatened nomadic goat herders in the area and there are reports that the Chinese Army entered 1.5 km into Indian territory and painted [...]
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Mapping as espionage is a concept that can’t be escaped even though technological advancements are slowly making this advantage obsolete. We are reminded of this as the Chinese refuse to be measured and monitored for their carbon emissions, showing a reluctance to be mapped based on security concerns. The strategic nature of mapping has become [...]
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China has begun promoting an aggressive reduction in emissions and has talked about a 40 to 45 percent reduction in energy intensity, but talks have stalled because it is refusing to accept international monitoring of its emission levels. This refusal of transparency harkens back to the Beijing Olympics where China moved air quality monitoring devices [...]
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India’s National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) produced satellite imagery that seems to suggest that China is building a dam on the Brahmaputra River. This evidence prompted the government to bypass the typical intergovernmental channels of flood-water data sharing and raise the level of discourse through the Ministry of External Affairs over this project on a [...]
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Chinese scientists are working on a map of Antarctica that they claim will be the world’s first land cover map of the continent. The map is based on 1,073 Landsat images from 1999 to 2002 as well as field work in the region. The precision of the map is said to be at 15 meters [...]
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