13th April 2009 Vol 5 Issue 14   
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Arctic reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia are getting a view from space to help them look after their herds. ESA backed program Polar View, herders are able to view the depth of snow and judge where the best foraging spots are to take their reindeer...

Melting of the West Antarctic part alone of the Antarctic ice sheet could cause a sea-level rise of approximately 6 meters (m).West Antarctic part of the Antarctic ice sheet is becoming thinner, based on analysis of ice-flow velocities derived from synthetic aperture radar...
  Article
Technology convergence - GIS doing a disappearing act!

Bhanu Rekha
Associate Editor
GIS Development

 Interview
Hybrid technologies to improve ROI

Tanmoy Chakrabarty
Vice-President & Head
Tata Consultancy Services


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   New Products, Launches and Releases
GeoNova’s travel applications for iPhone
ArcPad 8 available
GPS-enabled COOLPIX P6000 digital camera
RTK functionality on the GSR1700 CSX L1 GNSS
Freeway 2009 released
Unprecedented precision from Total Station TS30
3D mapping system with integrated GPS
   Blog Buster
How Geospatial Web Apps changed our lives
Ever since Geospatial web applications became available to the general public, our lives have been changed.

Licensing on the GeoWeb
OK, love or hate the term GeoWeb, it does reflect the reality of our workflows today. We are taking our applications off of the desktop and running them on the web...

Canyonlands Half Marathon maps
...I ended up making an overall map, an elevation profile, and zoom-in views of the start line and finish line...
    Global Headlines
Asia
CDC Taiwan develops Disease Control GIS
Bangalore’s civic agency finalising property register using GIS
Americas
NOAA becomes Principal Member in the OGC
Charles K. Toth wins ASPRS photogrammetric award
Google adds street view to Toronto maps
Canadian air force to map Afghanistan
Geophysical data for Canadian prospectors and geologists
Europe
Regular aerial coverage of The Netherlands under project LuchtfotoNL
Aerial photograph archives resolve land ownership disputes
Appointments, Acquisitions and Contracts
Peter Hunter is OSI Geospatial’s new CFO
Linda Hall is Avineon’s Business Development Executive for Defense
ClickSoftware to acquire Manchitra Services
Digital Worlds acquired by ESRI (UK)
NAVTEQ bags CSCIC’s GIS maintenance contract
  Events
GEOSIBERIA-2009
Novosibirsk , Novosibirsk , Russia
21 - 23 April 2009

Map Malaysia
Hotel Equatorial, Penang, Malaysia
21 - 22 April 2009

Map Middle East
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre , Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates
26 - 28 April

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