Russia plans to launch its first satellite for the remote sensing of the Earth in late 2006, a senior space official said Tuesday.”The Federal Space Program for 2006-2015 suggested the creation of seven remote sensing systems to obtain “fundamental knowledge about the Earth and monitor natural resources”. The main objectives outlined in the Federal Space Program were to restore and develop a remote sensing orbital group [...]“
From RIA Novosti and GIS News.

November 16th, 2005 | Earth Sciences and Geomatics, General Science, Technology | No comments

This new tool by Google won’t reach the general public as easily as Google Maps (now Google Local) or Gmail. However, for webmasters it will be a major player in this market. It’s basically Urchin, a company that was bought by Google a little while ago. Until now, Google was charging 199$/month just to access the service. They have now made it free (for the first 5M page views, or unlimited if you have an AdWords account).

Urchin 5 analyzes traffic for one or more websites and provides accurate and easy-to-understand reports on your visitors - where they come from, how they use your site, what converts them into customers, and much more. If you have content behind a security firewall or on an intranet or internal network that prevents you from using the Google Analytics service, Urchin 5 software is for you.

If you have a website running, I think you should give Google Analytics a good look.

November 14th, 2005 | General Science | No comments