Leading Singapore on growth path
From a tiny dot with barely any natural resources, Singapore has catapulted itself from Third World to First World in just one generation. Among other things, it is now the world's top logistics hub, fifth largest foreign exchange trading centre, third largest oil-refining centre, one of SouthEast Asia (SEA)'s main financial services and investment hubs...

ESRI Singapore: Leveraging strengths to grow
ESRI Singapore is strategically placed with strong political and excellent ICT infrastructure necessary for the growth and proliferation of GIS technology among different ministries and agencies...

On a high with HDS
Singapore has gone hi-tech with Leica Geosystems high definition surveying technology. Here is a sample...

The legal angle of geo-info
Location based services are provided for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, are used for a variety of purpose and a range of legal rules impact them. Read on to know more...

Of strengths and gaps in Germany
In May 2008, the company MICUS presented a new GI market study, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry on Economics and Technology, with the title "Prospects for business models of German companies in the European and global geo-information market" (Fornefeld et al, 2008). .

Online Maps - Opportunity or threat?
Google, Yahoo, Bing, Rediff, Big - the list of online map providers goes on. Here’s a peek into the scope of use and misuse of these maps

Laser Scanning Brings New Asset to Accident Investigations—and Surveyors
Laser Scanning Brings New Asset to Accident Laser Scanning technology is revolutionizing many aspects of surveying and applied measurement, but it's been especially game changing in the rarified niches of forensics and accident investigation.

A New Defense Application for Satellite Technology
It would not be accurate to state that the world changed on September 11, 2001--terrorist attacks on civilians had taken place in troubled areas of the world for many years prior.

A Fresno State Surveying Student Exercises Leadership
The finest American presidents to date, Washington and Lincoln, started out as land surveyors is a well-known fact of history, and that we surveyors would still be better leaders of the free world.

Measuring Granite Peak
The tallest mountain in Montana—Granite Peak—is 12,807.09 feet high, give or take a half a foot, according to a Billings crew's Global Positioning System survey on Aug. 16, 2008.

Precarious Positioning
On Oct. 3, 2009, thousands of people are expected to gather along the east and west sides of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to celebrate the grand opening of the Walkway over the Hudson.

When Mountains Move
It’s a scene from a Hollywood movie: A mountainside in Austria begins slipping down into the picturesque lake below. Emergency teams alert nearby residents and instruct them to flee from their homes.

Reclaiming Efficiency
How many surveyors are needed to stay ahead of 75 to 100 construction workers building a $100 million wastewater treatment and reclamation plant addition? Using traditional total stations and data collectors

An Exercise in Patience
In this companion piece to this month’s feature article “Ground Control in Baghdad,” Karen Meckel, PLS, provides intriguing insight and additional details about the monumentation, survey plans and fieldwork that her group performed in Iraq.

LAS and LASUtility
Existing image-processing and GIS software are being updated to include LAS, but so slowly that some users are converting their data from LAS to more convenient formats.

Adding Value: a New Paradigm
In the aftermath of catastrophe an extremely important source of information is provided by map documentation of its effects. Such early-impact maps, usually produced at different scales, are frequently generated from satellite imagery.

ISPRS in Africa
ISPRS continues to support and develop photogrammetry and remote sensing in Africa. Jide Kufoniyi, ISPRS regional representative in Africa, attended the first meeting

Mapping the Underground
Tough new penalties await contractors who interrupt electricity and gas supplies in Sydney. The legislation, which allows for five-year jail terms, has passed through the New South Wales Parliament and is now awaiting Royal Assent.

Radius Align
Innovation in any technology is introduced because of the benefits it offers. However, there can be downsides to these new developments that require consideration if the advantages of the technology are to be maximised.

Why Spatial is Special
Of equal interest, however, is how the growth in GNSS applications can increase business opportunities for the spatial practitioner in Australia.

Africa: The Art of Predicting Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks
NASA is devising remote sensing methods to monitor the environmental conditions that cause Rift Valley Fever to identify possible outbreaks and help prevent them.

LBS and Field Service: Current Trends
Sumair Dutta shares the results of The Aberdeen Group's latest LBS-related research. Does increased consumer use of location related technologies reflect the same growth in the enterprise? The research offers some insights.

Development of Risk Maps to Minimize Uranium Exposures in the Navajo Churchrock Mining District
Maps are communication devices. And it's relatively easy to design one for a familiar audience about a familiar topic

Hyperlocal News the Old Fashioned Way: The Yard Sign
Different algorithms crunch numbers and data, and attempt to deliver what's new and what's news for the location of your choice.

A Central Integration Point for Asset Management
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, division of Irrigation, Power and Safety of Dams (IPSOD) maintains more than 100,000 structures on 16 irrigation projects and more than 100 smaller irrigation systems spread across that land, primarily in the Western United States.