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Europe and Russia
confirm closer space
cooperation
"Europe and Russia are strengthening their cooperation in space
under the framework of the Tripartite Space
Dialogue between the European...
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1:50K CADRG
map of Middle East created by East View
Cartographic
"East View Cartographic announced the creation of a 1:50,000
scale background map in CADRG format over the
whole area of the Middle East for Geo Tech Consulting...
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Google supporting
GeoRSS
"GeoRSS, a very simple to use OGC format that extends RSS by
adding location data, can now be consumed via
Google Maps and the Google...
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ScanEx launch
"Transparent World" educational
project
"The Transparent World project by ScanEx will deliver medium
resolution images to be deployed at
universities, research and regional centres...
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Leica Geosystems
powers national Spanish orthophoto
project
"The project’s goal is to create 0.5 meter resolution orthophotos
covering the entire country, of more than
half a million square kilometers, and update...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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Pakistan
seeks Chinese help to boost space
programme
Pakistan hopes for Chinese assistance in achieving
expertise in space technology and has already
chalked out an elaborative space programme...
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Vietnam
to develop computerised land management
system
Vietnam Land Administration Project aims at developing
the country's land management system in a
more transparent and public manner...
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RazakSat, earth
observation satellite, to be launched this
year
RazakSat earth observation satellite will be launched this
year in conjunction with Malaysia's 50th
Independence Day celebration...
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Poland deploys
nationwide GNSS infrastructure
network
GNSS network being second network in Poland and will supply centimeter-level
RTK GNSS data for a variety of
positioning applications including geodetic and cadastral surveying...
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Japan radar
spy satellite out of action
One of a set of four spy satellites of Japan launched in 2003
to keep an eye on neighboring North Korea is
not functioning...
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EDITORIAL
Last December the Observer of London send out ripples by hinting about the 'Google
Phone'. Google was supposedly in talks
with telecom giant Orange, it said. This week, LG and Google announced a global
collaboration towards offering pre-installed
Google services on LG mobile phones. The mobile phone will have Google Maps,
Gmail and a host of other goodies. These
mobiles are set to hit the market by late this year and then I'll reluctantly
have to palm-off my GPS-PDA which I just paid a
packet for...The prospect of free cell phones is very much real today, what with
contextual and locational ad content being
beamed to you on your mobile? Remember, Eric Schmidt of Google said - “Your mobile
phone should be free. It just makes sense
that subsidies should increase”. Well, is the Google Phone being offered free?
The CTIA Wireless 2007 conference concluded in Orlando, Florida this week. Here,
the Carbon Project introduced its first p2p
software for Geosocial Networking based on the IPv6 protocol. The free beta
version of the ((Echo))MyPlace software powered
by CarbonCloud the first p2p framework designed to allow people to share and
discuss their experiences about places using
maps, photographs and text. The advantage (?) is that everything is hosted and
shared from your machine, so you are in
complete control of who gets to see what.
I had earlier discussed the seemingly excessive surveillance camera coverage
of London city. Well, the London City Fathers
feel it's not enough. London is planning to launch a satellite in collaboration
with Inmarsat with the capability of tracking
every vehicle on its streets. Speed Freaks will have one more obstacle in their
path, but only after 2011 (the year when this
satellite is scheduled to be operational).
 Dr.
Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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 ARTICLES OF THE
WEEK
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ArcGIS Image
Server:State-Of-The-Art Image Processing Software
Jim Baumann
ESRI, United States of America
This article tries to identify the current status of GIS education at geography
departments in various universities of GCC
(Gulf Cooperation Council) countries...
Changing Perspective of
Photogrammetry
Stewart Walker
Director of Marketing, (Geospatial explotation Product)
BAE Systems
This article gives an insight to the advancements and technology
trends in the field of
photogrammetry...
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INTERVIEW
Advancing GIS for Infrastructure
Malcolm Walter
COO, Bentley Systems, Inc.
"The vision we have is to leverage MicroStation and ProjectWise as platforms
on which to build a comprehensive portfolio of
products for specific disciplines...
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CORPORATE
Sancohkougyo becomes
master distributor of ER Mapper geospatial
imagery solutions in Japan
"ER Mapper’s existing resellers
ITOCHU and VisionTech will continue their
association with the ER Mapper reseller network and they will assist Sancoh in
promoting and supporting ER Mapper's
products...
Pictometry announces
master distributorship for wireless
internet camera from DigitalXtractions
DigitalXtractions’ SCIRC t1 is
a wireless, self-powered Internet remote
camera that was developed through a sponsored research partnership with Rochester
Institute...
NavQuest.com
imports custom waypoints, routes and trip
tickets into Google Earth
NavQuest.com Releases the ability
to easily import Custom Waypoints, Routes
and Trip Tickets into Google...
MiTAC buys Navman GPS
brand
MiTAC International Corp announced
that it has acquired the GPS unit from its
customer Brunswick Corp for US$16 million in cash, aiming...
McDonald Bradley selects
ESRI toolset
to implement $11.2 million prime contract at NOAA
The NOAA project for the Office
of Coast Survey, Marine Chart Division will
utilize the ESRI Production Line Tool Set for Nautical Charting System...
GeoDecisions partners with
Daffron
and Associates
GeoDecisions complements Daffron’s
services by providing utility mapping
services and GIS...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Microsoft’s Vexcel ships first UltraCam-X to GEODIS
BRNO
The UltraCam-X collects 216 megapixels
per trigger to produce 14,430 across
track and 9,420 along track pixels, the largest image format available...
Latest version of QGIS software released
"The latest release of QGIS
version 0.8 includes a range of features like
searching attribute data, export tool enhancements, WMS support, multi-platform
GRASS...
ESRI RouteMAP IMS 4 now shipping
"RouteMAP IMS, the Affordable
Internet Mapping and Location Services
Application, now accesses aerial imagery...
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