GIS DEVELOPMENT WEEKLY 13th August 2007 VOL.3 ISSUE 32
 
 
TOP STORIES
Thai satellite to be launched in November

THEOS expected to aid the state officials deal with natural disasters, suppress drug trafficking and predict crop estimates...
Google uses Crowdsourcing to map cities in India

Google has been sending GPS kits to locals to make detail maps....
OGC Lifetime Achievement Award for Charles Roswell

Charles Roswell of NGA receives the first every OGC Lifetime Achievement Award....
Clemens Portele receives OGCs Gardels Award

Clemens Portele has been awarded with the OGCs ninth annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award at the OGCs July meet in Paris....
U.S. Army salutes BuckEye system

Flight Landatas BuckEye system has been recognized by U.S. Army among Top 10 Inventions of 2006....
GIS model to reduce fuel consumption

Intermap Technologies and Auburn University has collaborated in efforts to generate a GIS model to help reduce fuel consumption.....
OGC announces TML specifications

Version 1.0 of the Transducer Markup Language implementation specification has been approved by the OGC... ..
Intermap Technologies wins MAPPS Award

Intermaps -Torino 2006 IFSAR Mapping Project, recognized under Photogrammetry/Elevation Data Generation category won the MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Award .....
GIS to determine size of cash crops

The Sindh Ministry of Agriculture launches a GIS project, in collaboration with Suparco, to determine size of main cash crops, such as cotton, wheat and rice.....
GITA survey on Geospatial Technology

GITAs Geospatial Technology report surveys deadline is August 15, 2007....
Vicrea Solutions BV helps Dutch municipalities

Cadcorp business partner, Vicrea Solutions BV, enables local authorities in the Netherlands to manage their address and land and property information using a single spatial database.
Training on GIS Standards and Interoperability held

A three day training on GIS Standards and Interoperability was conducted by GIS Development in Dubai.....
Participate in our Survey

GIS Development is conducting a survey. This data will be used for forthcoming article on "Surveying for Mapping"

CORPORATE
Sybase iAnywhere acquires GIS firm

Coboplan, Japanese GIS firm, has been acquired by US based Sybase, a mobile and embedded databases management company....
ISRO to launch mini-satellites

ISRO is developing 100 kgs satellite bus inorder to tap the nano- and micro- satellite launch market. ...
SPADAC Inc. buys EarthWhere

SANZ sells EarthWhere,a system that automates the management of geospatial data, business unit to SPADAC Inc.....
eSpatial partners with Geomatic Technologies

eSpatial announced its partnership with Geomatic Technologies at GITA Australia Conference.....
GeoVirtual signs distribution contract in Chile

GeoVirtual, in colaboration with Geaintec, will be able to serve the Chilean market and can continue its expansion of their leadership in the 3D cartographic software market in Latin America....
VistaNAV for Wildfire monitoring

Mercury Computer Systems to provide Wildfire Monitoring and Forest Mapping services with VistaNav- SSR UAS. ..
Leica and IONIC at Map Asia 2007

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging and IONIC announced their silver sponsorships at Map Asia 2007.....
NEW PRODUCTS
Pictometry to launch Strategic Advantage Suite

The Strategic Advantage Suite is a mobile PC based command station to produce safer and effective incident management outcomes...
Linux ver. of GeoTranslate 5.0 released

GeoTranslate 5.0 is now available with LINUX development environments, for file translation and feature manipulation....
VE add-in for AWhere available

The add-in allows AWhere users to display the Microsoft Virtual Earth map interface as a backdrop to other layers of geolocated data....
Layer Wizard Extension for ArcGIS

Geodynamic Solutions Inc. introduced Layer Wizard Extension for ArcGIS to logically organize data layers by one or more categories....
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ARTICLE

“The Place of Ethics in the Spatial Information Sciences: an Australasian Perspective”
Jim Connolly
CEO, Spatial Sciences Institute
INTERVIEW

"Raising geospatial imaging standards, consolidating recent acquisitions and developing innovative and accurate geospatial tools"
Bob Morris
President, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging, USA
     
 EDITORIAL

Location is everything... and Google Earth is going to new lengths in justifying this adage. The mapping of almost all major towns and cities in India by Google Earth, and data layer with streets and names, also available in Google Maps is a lifesaver to the millions who otherwise had to make-do with old antiquated paper maps – most of them obsolete or in many cases just not available due to map restriction. The best part is that the data has been generated by locals using GPS kits send by Google Earth. It is not just in India, but also in the rain forests of Congo that Google Earth is effecting lives. The Mebendjele Pygmies from the north western part of The Republic of Congo use Google Earth to record areas which should not be logged for wood by contractors. The efficacy of the 3D terrain visualisation has passed the acid test with even people without any background or prior exposure to a CRT display have easily understood the bird's eye views spectacularly displayed in Google Earth. The native Pygmies with their intimate knowledge of the terrain adapted to the 3D visuals very easily says Michael Hopkin from Nature magazine. This should be reason enough for Google to quickly update the low resolution coverage over almost all of DRC to the actually useful high resolution data.

The development of security and surveillance systems on a GIS platform has seen a sea change from just live feeds from security cameras linked with a spot on a map to technology intensive intelligent applications like the 'ShotSpotter'. With the 'perceived' ever increasing threat to property and personnel, there is a rising demand for such solutions. If last week's listing of headlines on our portal is to be taken as a yard stick, well more than twenty percent of the news was linked to security and defence. The 'TerrorRisk' discussed last week, and similar offerings may use demographic, ethnic, racial and social data to fine tune their 'Strategic Intelligence' – the objectivity of the data collection and analysis in such missions may be questioned.

The Map Asia 2007 conference starts on Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur. Do join us to hear and share...

  Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
 EVENTS

ISPRS Workshop on Updating Geo-spatial Databases with Imagery & The 5th ISPRS Workshop on DMGISs
28 August - 29 August 2007
Urumchi, Xingjiang, China

The Second Indonesian Geospatial Technology Exhibition 2007
29 August - 1 September 2007
Jakarta Convention Center

Location Asia 2007
13 September - 14 September 2007
Shangri-La, Hong Kong


AFRICAGIS 2007
 17 September - 21 September 2007
Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso
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