GEO:Connexion (March 2006)
Good Professor in GIS?
Tom Poiker
Many people have a different view when it comes to determining a 'Good Professor in GIS' depending on whether or not they are a professor or student.
My virtual field trip to Alaska
By all accounts, Alaska is one of the world's most rugged, pristine, and beautiful areas. I never had the opportunity to travel there, yet I feel like I have gotten to know at least a small part of it while producing a relief map of the Kachemak bay area.
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GIM International (March 2006)
Land Administration in the Asian Region
Chris Lunnay
The degree of success of Land Administration projects in Asia varies. It is beneficial to take activities that have worked in one project and build them into others. Likewise, activities that have not worked need to be assessed to determine what benefits might emerge should they be made to work in another project.
A Framework for GI-Services
Javier Morales
The reliability and quality of information services delivered by a Geo-Information (GI) provider determines its success on the market. So geo-information business should not be limited to acquiring, storing and publishing data, but should also add value, integrate spatial data and develop information services.
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GeoInformatics (March 2006)
Reality-based 3D City Models from Aerial and Satellite Data
CyberCity-Modeller and Database
Europe Advances Rapidly Toward Geo-Interoperability
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Geotimes (March 2006)
Drilling Back to the Future
Ross D. Powell, Robert M. DeConto and David Pollard
A new Antarctic project will drill into the frozen southern continent to uncover its climate secrets.
Arctic Amplification
Naomi Lubick
Earth’s northern latitudes provide early warning for global climate change.
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Position Magazine (February-March 2006)
Beyond Flatland
Jon Fairall
Spatial data is entering a new world, where measurement and display will occur in three dimensions. In the process, some old problems will be solved.
Customising Google Earth
Paul Samuel, Maruits Van Der Vlugt
Google Earth is more than just a curiosity for people who want a new view of the Earth. It can be used as a serious mechanism for data display | |
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GPS World (March 2006)
Wireless Choices for LBS — Control Plane and User Plane Architectures
Arnold Gum, Kirk Burroughs
The wireless industry today carries significant buzz about location applications based on highly accurate and ubiquitous Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technology. Industry analysts extol the virtues of handset-based navigation, location-enabled points of interest, and many other location applications that utilize precise positioning.
GPS + Modernized GPS + Galileo — Signal Timing Biases
Chris Hegarty, Ed Powers, Blair Fonville
Gps timing and navigation user solutions are based on pseudorange measurements made by correlating user-receiver–generated replica signals with the signals broadcast by the GPS satellites | |
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