September 2007     
Print Publications
  GIM International (September 2007)

USGS QA Plan
...USGS and its partners have launched a Quality Assurance (QA) Plan for Digital Aerial Imagery as a new digital technology in aerial imaging and mapping, to provide a foundation for the quality of digital aerial imagery and products..


Improving Heritage Documentation
...highlights how Photogrammetry and GIS provide an efficient solution to adequate documentation and conserving of heritage sites.


Lidar and Sound Modelling
shows how airborne Lidar in conjunction with aerial photos is able to capture the complexity of urban terrain. The authors propose a programme of research to find out how high-resolution terrain data might improve the efficiency of sound models.


4D Urban GI
.....illustrates how incorporation of time as a fourth dimension in the GIS systems has resulted in better quality and services, improvements to the cadastre system and financial benefits of Arak municipality, Iran.
 GeoWorld (August 2007)

Accurate GPS -- An Operating Policy and Procedures Ensure Consistency
discusses the set of Operating Policies and Procedures (OPP) for GPS technology which the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the state agency responsible for environmental monitoring, permitting and enforcement within Texas, has developed.

GIS Innovation Drives Its Evolution
discusses innovations in GIS leading to its evolution and future trends.

BIM Works as Verb and Noun
discusses Building Information Model (BIM) as a process and a shared knowledge resource containing information about a building or facility.


Working on the GeoWeb
There’s an evolving notion of a geospatially enabled Web that will lower access barriers, enable the proliferation of resources and drive the diversification of solutions, leading to a more compelling environment for business, consumers and government: the GeoWeb.
  GIS Development- Global Geospatial magazine ( August 2007)
The Place of Ethics in the Spatial Information Sciences: an Australasian Perspective
reviews the findings of a report that identifies the nature and type of ethical issues and ethical risks faced by members of the member associations of Professions, Australia, with respect to situations faced by spatial information professionals.


A Service Driven Approach for Integration of Heterogeneous Geospatial Data Repositories
details on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using web services for integrating diverse repositories of spatial data.


The socio-ethical dimensions of spatial information technology
assesses the impacts of SIT (Spatial Information Technology)

 Geo: International Magazine (July/August 2007)

Nowhere to run
ESRI UK’s Simon Cottingham reports how crime analysis is helping law enforcement agencies to more effectively pinpoint crime and allocate resources.


Geospatial formats shootout
Chris Hanson continues with his independent, in-depth investigation of image compression format performance issues such as compression artefacts, degradation and speed.


Open source: A Virtuous Circle of Collaboration
Chris Holmes of The Open Planning Project discusses how collaborative development yields results greater than the sum of its parts

  Location (July- August, 2007)

Location Based Advertising
encapsulates the concept behind location based advertising, its components and emerging oppourtunities.


Wireless Navigation: Paths to Success

highlights the dyanamics and the future of LBS.

Promising growth of Location - Based Sevices
highlights the dyanamics and market overview of LBS.

Mobile Navigation Threat to Personal Navigation Devices
focuses on the worldwide PND market and insight into why the handset navigation market represents an impending threat to PND shipment growth.
  The American Surveyor (July/August 2007)

End of the Line: Monumenting the Northern Terminus of the Sixth Principal Meridian
traces the process of establishing the northern terminus which is of one of the most important north-south survey lines in the central part of the US and placing the monument the has remained un-monumented for last 150 years.

A Revisit to the New Twist in Corner Recovery
documents some changes to the Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) software and share some empirical data evaluating the success of the procedures.

Point to Point: Our Insular World
discusses the importance of standards and errors in surveying procedure.


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Online Publications
 GISuser (July 2007)

Google Earth 101 - Using the Image Overlay Tool in Google Earth

tells how to use the image overlay functionality provided in Google Earth to import existing images into the 3D display and drape them over the existing terrain.

Sony Ericsson Tutorial: SVG Tiny Maps Using SVGT

describes how to convert and optimize online map server content for display on SVG viewers on Sony Ericsson UIQ 3-based mobile phones using web services.


 POB Online (August 2007)

The Surveyors of Our Future
highlights how the annual NSPS Surveying Student Competition propels college and university students forward and sharpens the outlook for the profession.

Web-Exclusive! The Pine Springs Café
illustrates Pine Springs cafe in Texas which provides a unique backdrop for a mapping project in 1972.

Scanning the Levees
illustrate how laser scanning technology plays critical role in mapping damage from Hurricane Katrina.

The Corner Connection
focusses on how an organized GIS helps to manage and analyze the survey corners within Fulton County, Ohio.

More Feet on the Street
gives an overview on the planned growth of Topcon, Hayes Instrument Company and Earl Dudley Inc.using new technology and traditional values.


 Asian Surveying & Mapping (August 2007)

Towards Landsat 8
The article is based on the Operational Land Imager (OLI), which is the principal sensor on the Landsat-8 which will be launched in 2011.

Remote Sensing and Global Navigation at the UN
The article gives the highlights of the UN Committee of Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS) meeting on the 50th anniversary of the presence of man in space.

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
GIM International
GeoWorld
GIS Development- Global Geospatial magazine
Geo: International Magazine
Location
The American Surveyor

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
GIS User
POB Online
ASM
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