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Google Earth prompts security fears
 The operators of Australia's nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights are
calling on the heads of the Internet search engine Google to censor its publication
of photographs of the site, warning that the images could be used by terrorists.
The photos published on an Internet site would have been available only to a
handful of government agencies and NASA until recently. But now satellite photography
is easily accessible online, giving up more information than some people would
like.
Discovery Space Shuttle lands safely
NASA workers burst into applause and cheered as Discovery’s wheels touched concrete.
The homecoming of mission STS114 came 13 days, 21 hours and 33 minutes after
its launch from Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, an event that
was marred by a near-fatal incident when a 1lb chunk of cladding rattled loose
from the fuel tank, almost striking the spacecraft.
Spanish forest fire aftermath surveyed by Envisat
The damage done to Spain's Guadalajara province by July's fierce forest fire
has been measured from space by Envisat. Firefighters succeeded in creating a
fire break to stop its spread, backed up by water-bombing aircraft. As the Spanish
authorities assess the fire's aftermath, a rapid damage estimate has been performed
using Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Location technologies for pedestrian navigation
Georg Gartner
Department of Geoinformation and Cartography
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Verena Radoczky
Department of Geoinformation and Cartography,
Vienna University of Technology,
Günther Retscher
Department of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Vienna University of Technology,
In this paper suitable location technologies for pedestrian navigation are identified
and investigated. A reliable pedestrian navigation service requires the determination
of the current user’s position using different sensors that are integrated into
the system design.
A Model of Location Based Services for Crime
Control
Roongrasamee Boondao, Vatcharaporn Esichaikul and Nitin Kumar Tripathi
School of Advanced Technologies
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
The safety of citizens is the most important task of the government. LBS involve
the ability to find the geographical location of a mobile device and provide
services based on this location information. LBS can offer tremendous benefits
for the safety area, for example, tracking the location of a person who needs
urgent help, or of a criminal who is wanted. This paper aims to design a model
of location based services for crime control that reflects police and citizens
demands.
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Based Services
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Researches on Model of Navigation in CVE
Navigation Application with Mobile Telephony: Shortest-path
Combining wireless location services with enterprise ebusiness
applications
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INTERVIEW
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“LBS is not a killer application; it is the "killer enabler" of existing
and new wireless services'”
 Joe Astroth
Vice President and General Manager
Autodesk Location Services
Location based services have developed into an
important industry today even though it is still in its initial stages of development.
This interview with Joe Astroth, Vice President and General Manager, Autodesk
Location Services brings forth his view about important aspects of the LBS industry.
The interview touches on aspects like the key areas of focus for the LBS industry,
the role of GPS in the perspective of its integration with the location based
system and other important points of discussion.
Company Directory
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numerous companies across the world with details of their competences enlisted
and updated in the directory of
companies at GISdevelopment.net every month in 11 different categories.
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